Dr. Samrat Dinesh Shah was felicitated with the Dhanvantri Award, by the Gujarat and Maharashtra governments on the occasion of National Doctor's Day on Tuesday, July 1st, 2025. The event held in Mumbai was helmed by Mumbai Samachar newspaper. 
 

This award function was specially organized to recognize and honour selected experts from the medical field. Dr. Samrat was one of the youngest among the 15 prominent medicos on the awardee list. He was honoured by Gujrat CM Shri Bhupendra Patel for his intense research, findings, diagnosis and successful treatment in the field of Diabesity (Diabetes with Obesity) including  its metabolic complications as an epidemic. 
 

Dr Samrat conducts consultations at Sonal Clinic in Walkeshwar, and is also a consultant at Sir H N Reliance Foundation Hospital, Jaslok, Breach Candy, Saifee, St Elizabeth’s and Bhatia Hospital. 
 

In 2023, his name was recommended and nominated for the Padma award, to Shri Amit Shah (Hon’ble Union Minister of Home Affairs) by the then Governor of Maharashtra, Shri Ramesh Bais.
 

Prior to that, in 2021, the Municipal Commissioner, Iqbal Singh Chahal, Governor Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari, and Health Minister Shri Rajesh Tope, had honored him with a state award, for his relentless work with Covid patients. They further recognized Dr. Samrat's reintroduction of the Air-Vo machine for the timely and successful treatment of complications of Covid.