Mohamed Rela is an Indian surgeon and expert in

liver transplantation Liver transplantation or hepatic transplantation is the replacement of a diseased liver with the healthy liver from another person (allograft). Liver transplantation is a treatment option for end-stage liver disease and acute liver failure, al ...

and hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgery. He is considered one of the world's best liver transplant surgeons. He is in the

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for performing a liver transplant on a 5-day-old baby. He is the chairman and director of Dr Rela Hospital, India and the Professor of Liver Surgery and Transplantation, at the King's College Hospital, London.

Education

Rela was born in Kiliyanur village near Mayiladuthurai in

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is the southernmost States and union territories of India, state of India. The List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of Indi ...

, India. His parents are S A Shamsudin and Hasma Beevi. He received his

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(in 1980) and MS degree from the

Stanley Medical College Stanley Medical College (SMC) is a public university, public medical school, medical college located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Though the original hospital is more than 200 years old, the medical college was formally established on 2 July ...

, Chennai. He later went to the United Kingdom in 1986, to receive another MS from

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and become a

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in 1988.

Career

Rela worked in various hospitals in UK before joining London's King's College Hospital in 1991, where he is the Professor of liver surgery. Rela performed over 6000 liver transplants, including one on a five-day-old baby, for which he was listed in the

in 2000. Rela works in India and has started his own institution Dr.Rela Institute & Medical Centre - Hospital in Chrompet, Chennai, India in 2018 where he set up a Living Donor Liver Transplant program performing over 300 liver transplants a year.

References

External links

*Home page a
Institute of Liver Disease & Transplantation, Global Hospitals & Health City, Chennai, India
*Profile a
KCH, London, UK
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