Dr. Mohamed Rela

Brief Profile:

Prof. Mohamed Rela is a pioneer in liver transplantation with over 28 years of experience. He started the Institute of Liver disease and transplantation at Global Gleneagles health city in 2009. It has quickly become the largest liver transplant program in India. Since its inception, over 1500 liver transplantation surgeries have been performed under this programme. He is also a professor of liver transplantation surgery at Kings College Hospital, London.

Prof. Mohamed Rela has moved from Global Gleneagles group of hospitals and started Dr. Rela Institute & Medical Centre. His vision is to address health care issues of local population with facilities of International standards also provide cost effective high end treatments like Multi-Organ Transplantation.

Education:

• M.B.B.S – 1982, University of Madras, India
• M.S – 1987, University of Madras, India
• FRCS – 1988, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• DSc (Honoris causa) – 2013, The Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University, India

AWARDS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Panchanna Chaterjee Oration and Gold Medal: Association of Surgeons of India. December, 1996
• Senior Lecturer: Kings College, University of London, 2001
• Recognised Teacher status and PhD Supervisor: University of London, 2001
• Professor of Liver Surgery and Transplantation: Kings College, University of London, 2005
• Scroll of Honour and Medal: Jawaharlal Institute of Post graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, 2009
• Scroll of Honour: The Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, 2012
• Prof. Mohamed Rela has performed over 6000 liver transplant surgeries.
• He is also one of the most Innovative Paediatric Surgeons alive as per an article published by Top Master in Healthcare Administratio
• He has pioneered the technique of split liver transplantation where one cadaver liver is split into two and transplanted into two individuals.
• In December 1997, a team led by him performed a successful liver transplantation on a five-day-old girl, which made him an entry into the Guinness Book of World Records in 2000. The girl is now 20 years old studying law.
• Prof. Mohamed Rela is one of the most accomplished surgeons in the world in this field with over 400 scientific articles and papers on liver transplantation, complex hepatobiliary pancreatic surgery and more.this field with over 400 scientific articles an

MEMBERSHIPS & CERTIFICATIONS

• BMA: British Medical Association
• RSM: Royal Society of Medicine
• BTS: British Transplantation Society
• ILTS: International liver transplant society
• AUGIS: Association of Upper GI surgeons of Great Britain
• ESOT: European Society of Organ Transplantation
• BASL: British Association of Study of the Liver
• IHPBA: International Hepato-Pancreato Biliary Association
• AST: American Society of Transplantation
• APASL: The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver