DR. (MAJOR GENERAL) KIDIYUR JAYAKAR SHETTY SEPTEMBER 2, 1931 NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Dr. (Major General) K. Jayakar Shetty passed away peacefully in the early hours of November 23, 2024, at his daughter's home in Baltimore, MD. He lived a rich and impactful life. As one of his former students put it upon hearing of his death: ”Teachers and human beings like him never die - they simply live on in the hearts of many.”

Jayakar Shetty was born in the village of Kidiyur near Udupi in what was then the Madras Presidency. After completing his early education in Kidiyur, Udupi, and Mangalore, he earned his medical degree, (MBBS) in 1955 at Madras Medical College. In 1956, he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Indian Army, marking the start of a 34-year military career that would culminate in the rank of Major General.

While in the Army, he completed his MD from Poona University and specialized further in Endocrinology at the University of Cardiff, receiving a MRCP from Edinburgh, and later a FRCP. During his military career, he held a variety of academic and administrative positions across India and overseas. The most notable of these were: member of the Indian delegation to the International Control Commission in Vietnam, and Medical Specialist in the Indian Military Training Team (IMTRAT) in Bhutan where he also served as the personal physician to the

King. He went on to become: Head of the Department of Medicine at the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune; Commanding Officer, Military Hospital, Pathankot: and Senior Consultant, Medicine, Armed Forces Medical Services.

After he retired from the Army, Dr. Shetty worked in Al-Hofuf (Saudi Arabia), established the teaching program in Medicine at the Manipal College of Medical Sciences (MCOMS) in Pokhara, Nepal, and was a Consultant at a number of hospitals in Bangalore, including Manipal Hospital (where he also helped initiate its post graduate program in Medicine), Baptist Hospital and Specialist Hospital. Throughout his life, he never forgot his roots in the Bunt community, including serving as the President of the Bunts Sangha in Pune from 1980 to 1983.

In 2020, Dr. Shetty moved to Baltimore along with Hemalatha, his wife of 64 years who predeceased him in 2021. He is survived: in the US by his daughter, Kirti (of Baltimore, MD), his son, Sudhir and daughter-in-law, Madhavi (of Kensington, MD), sister-in law, Indira Shetty (of Flushing, NY), brother- and sister-in law, Sakaram and Gayathri Shetty (of Edison, NJ), and grandchildren, Shefali, Alok, Aditi and Rohan; in India, by his sister, Pushpa and brother-in-law, Ganpathi Shetty (of Udupi), brother- and sister-in-law, Dr. Shantharam and Vasanthi Shetty (of Mangalore), sister- and brother-in law, Saroja and Satish Bhandary (of Mangalore); and across the world by many nephews, nieces and their families.

His legacy lives on through the many lives he touched as a patriarch, physician, teacher, mentor, and

community leader.