Citizenship British Nationality Indian | Alma mater University of Madras Name Mohammed Rela | |
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Institutions King's College Hospital, London
Global Hospital, Hyderabad
Global Hospital, Chennai Known for Liver transplantation
Split Liver Transplantation
Pancreaticoduodenectomy Notable awards Guinness Book of Records in 2000 Education University of Madras, Stanley Medical College Fields Liver transplantation, Pancreatic disease | ||
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Mohamed Rela, is an Indian surgeon known for his expertise on liver transplantation and hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgery. He is one of the world's top liver transplant surgeons from the King's College Hospital, London. He made his name in the Guinness Book of Records for performing a Liver Transplantation on a 5 day old baby. Prof. Mohamed Rela is the Chairman and Director of the Institute of Liver diseases and Transplantation, Global Hospitals Group, India and the Professor of Liver Surgery and Transplantation, King's College Hospital, London.
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Background
Prof. Mohamed Rela was born in Kiliyanur village near Mayiladuthurai in Tamil Nadu, India. He was a student of the Kalakshetra School, Chennai and got his MBBS (in 1980) and MS degree from the Stanley Medical College, Chennai. Later he went to the United Kingdom in 1986 and got another MS from Edinburgh and then became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1988.
Career
Prof. Mohamed Rela worked in various hospitals in UK before joining London’s Prestigious King’s College Hospital, Europe’s renowned Liver Transplant Center in 1991. At the King's College Hospital, he pioneered the split liver transplantation technique; and has one of the largest experiences in the world in Auxiliary Liver Transplantation. His area of Interest is Pediatric Liver Transplantation. Prof.Rela doses more 60 pediatric liver transplantation a year in Global Hospital Chennai. He has performed more than 250 peadiatric liver transplantation which is the largest pediatric program in South Asia.
Rela is also a busy hepatobiliary surgeon, performing Whipple’s surgery for pancreatic cancer, liver resections for Cholangiocarcinoma and HCC resection in Cirrhotic patients. His research interest is in the field of clinical liver transplantation and developing animal models for hydrodynamic gene therapy. He has over 280 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He currently works in India, where he has set up a successful Living Donor Liver Transplant program performing over 250 liver transplants a year. While he is now affiliated to Global Hospitals & Health City in Chennai, he still works at King's College Hospital, in UK.
The 'Master Class in Liver Disease' (MCLD) series was envisaged by Dr. Rela as a means to deliver high quality teaching in liver disease and transplantation. Since its first edition in 2011, it has quickly established itself as one of the most popular scientific meetings in the field in the Indian sub-continent. Each edition is planned as a single theme conference with participation of national & international experts. Previous editions have dealt with topics such as the pathological basis of liver disease, hepatobiliary tumours, paediatric liver diseases, peri-operative care of the liver recipient, living donor liver transplantation, and acute liver failure.
The forthcoming MCLD is titled- ‘Liver Diseases & Transplantation - Back to Basics’ is being organized in Chennai from January 20 to January 22, 2017 at ITC Grand Chola, Chennai. Registrations are now open at the conference website. www.mcldindia.com.