Shanti Pantvaidya

Dr. Shanti Pantvaidya, Executive Director, was a medical teacher for 35 years and Professor/Head of Anesthesiology Services for 20 years at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital (LTMGH), Mumbai’s largest public hospital. At LTMGH, she was instrumental in establishing the Emergency Medical Services. Dr. Shanti leads the project on maternal and newborn referral systems in public hospitals for SNEHA, in partnership with the ICICI Centre for Child Health and Nutrition, PATH India and DFID. She leads the standardizing, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the referral system. She was also the Lead Researcher in the WHO-funded Implementation Research Programme, which documented the maternal referral tool. Dr. Shanti oversees research and programme implementation across SNEHA.