Mukund Nagindas Dhruva was a neurosurgeon in Yakima, Washington, USA. He was born in Pansina in the state of Gujerat, India on 10 February 1934 to Nagindas Dhruva, a businessman, and his wife Champa whose maiden name was Shah. After attending the Sheth NTM High School in Surendrangar, he studied biology at Elphinstone College, Bombay University and medicine at Grant Medical College from 1954, qualifying MB BS in 1960. That year he came to the UK to work as an SHO at West Bromwich and District General Hospital for six months followed by an internship at the Royal Hospital in Chesterfield. From 1962 to 1963 he was a resident at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary and then spent two years as a registrar in neurological surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham until 1966 when he gained his fellowship. After spending two years as a senior registrar at the Institute of Neurological Sciences, Killearn Hospital, Glasgow he moved to the USA. He worked in private practice in Tacoma, Washington from 1970 to 1972 and then moved to Yakima where he joined the staff of the Providence Yakima Medical Center, the Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital and the Yakima Valley Osteopathic Hospital. He passed the fellowship of the American College of Surgeons in 1976. Among other groups, he was a member of the Yakima County Medical Society, the Washington State Neurological Society, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the Society of British Neurological Surgeons. Outside medicine he enjoyed cricket, baseball, basketball, swimming, reading and music. He also threw himself into community service and was a member of the Yakima Rotary Club (becoming Paul Harris Fellow) and St Timothy’s Episcopal Church. During his time in West Bromwich he met Maureen Hazel Warden, who was a qualified nurse, and they married some years later on 25 June 1966 in Birmingham. They had two sons; Dileep who became a salesman and Daniel who worked for a finance company in San Francisco. When he died on 1 November 2002 aged 68, he was survived by his wife, sons, daughter-in-law Amy and grandson, Mack.