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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank all those people without whom the creation of this handbook would not have been possible.
Thank you to the JAINA Education Committee members for their time in editing and publishing the handbook. Thank you to the leaders of JAINA, especially Pravin K Shah, Yogendra Jain, and Parth Savla, for your kind support, patience, encouragement, time, and efforts to ensure the success of this project.
Gratitude also goes to Dr. Jennifer Craig, Priyal Gandhi, Hemang Srikishan, and Shardule Shah for your hard work in editing the handbook and for your continued support. Thank you, Kalpesh Mehta, for your generous efforts with the content editing. Thank you to Monika Jain, Charmi Vakharia, Rachna Shah, and Kriti Shah for help with the new version. Thank you to Anthony Paz for your input on the importance of spirituality. Thanks also goes to Akhil Shah, Shardule Shah, and Shikhar Shah for your recipes. You all have become such dear friends to me.
Thank you to the Detroit Päthashälä leaders; Mahendra Shah, Vinay Shah, all my past Päthashälä teachers, Suresh Shah, and my current Päthashälä students for giving me the incentive and motivation to write and publish this handbook. Thank you to Sneha Butala, Kristy Hwang, Eric Ranyal, Keval Parikh, and Paras Vakharia, for taking time out of your busy medical school schedules to pose for the photos in this handbook. Thank you to Sonny Shah for creating the book cover, Vaidehi Merchant for assisting with the photo editing, Shikhar Shah for helping with the formatting, and Anitaben Parikh for final book layout.
Furthermore, thank you to my close family and friends for molding me into the person I am today, and for your genuine support, care, and love. Your presence in my life has been essential to my personal and spiritual growth. And, lastly my sincere gratitude goes to my parents whose constant compassion, support, and wisdom have inspired me to be the best person I can be. I will always carry your lessons with me, and I will continue to share them with the world. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
Sonali Vakharia
sonalivakharia@gmail.com
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