Hon. Physician of Jaslok Hospital Dr. G. S. Sainani, was awarded the Padamshri in the year 2000 at the hands of President of India. Then he became the consultant to the armed forces. He was thereafter felicitated by different organizations such as Finolex Group, V. P. Naik Pratistha at Raj Bhavan, Sindhu Academy, Sindhu Samaj, Sindhi New Year (Chetichand) Foundation at Pune. He has also received such prestigious awards like Dr. B. C. Roy Award, Priyadarshini Lifetime Achievement Award and has delivered several national orations including Dr. B. C. Roy, Achanta Lakshmi Pathi orations etc. Apart from being the past president of 12 national associations, he has written and edited prestigious medical books, journals and over 500 research papers.

Dr. Gurumukh S. Sainani was born in a middle class family in 1931. He was the youngest of five bothers and three sisters and was brought up by his uncle. He was a meritorious student who was granted with a double promoition from 10th to 12th , which he passed form Mumbai University with distinction in Maths and Science. He joined D. J. Sindh College at Karachi. He was in a refugee camp in Nagpur where he studied in a Science College. He was awarded for passing with first class, at the hands of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India. In his final year of MBBS, he received the Prince of Wales Prize and later he secured a postgraduate seat for MD. His performance in the Public Service Commission got him the post of Assistant Professor in Medicine which led to his promotion as Professor and Head of the Department of Medicine at the young age of 32. Soon after this, he married Dr. Pushpa Dudani and was blessed with three children: Renuka (ophthalmologist in Australia), Rajesh (an MD) and Ashwini (post-graduate in ophthalmology).

Dr. Sainani received training in cardiology at Chicago Medical School and Mt. Sinai Hospital at Chicago. Then he wrote a book 'A Primer of Cardiac Diagnosis' dedicating it to his daughter Renuka. In January 1969, he joined as Director Professor of Medicine, first at Nagpur, then at Pune and finally at Mumbai. Dr. Sainani was a consultant to Byculla Hospital, Central Railway and State Bank of India. He is the first medical man in the entire history to get D. Sc. by research.