Memorial Centre in 1941. After his retirement from GMC, he also served as the personal surgeon of Indira Gandhi. Mehta was one of the Indian medical personnel involved in the establishment of the National Academy of Medical Sciences in 1961, and was a founder fellow of the Academy. In 1973, when an Indian-born British philanthropist, Seth Lokoomal Chanrai, decided to set up a hospital, he entrusted the project to Mehta, which resulted in the founding of Jaslok Hospital. He worked as the medical director of the hospital and established several specialty departments; the institution has since grown to become a multi-specialty tertiary care hospital. He chaired the Medical Education Review Committee (later known as the Mehta Committee) of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, in 1982, which proposed guidelines for medical education in India. Later, he was also associated with Swami Prakashanava Ayurvedic Research Centre. He received the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan in 1971. Mehta, who was married to Champaben, suffered from age-related illnesses towards the later stages of his life and died on 21 June 1997, at the age of 92. Dr. Shantilal J. Mehta Medical Research Foundation is a medical research foundation operating in Mumbai which has been named after him. References External links Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in medicine 1905 births 1997 deaths Fellows of the National Academy of Medical Sciences Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons People from Surendranagar district Gujarati people Indian independence activists from Gujarat Indian surgeons Indian medical academics 20th-century Indian medical doctors Medical doctors from Gujarat 20th-century surgeons