Mohamed Rela MBBS, MS, FRCS

Dr. Mohammed Rela is a specialist in liver transplant surgeries. He is one of the most accomplised surgeons in the world in this field. He pioneered the split liver transplantation technique, involving the division of a healthy donor organ to help transplant it to two patients. While he is now affiliated to Global Hospitals & Health City in Chennai, he also works at King’s College Hospital, in the UK.

He also has special interest towards Whipple procedure (also known as Pancreaticoduodenectomy) with portal vein resection (PVR) which is usually performed on patients with advanced stage pancreatic cancer. He has written a number of scientific articles and papers on liver transplantation, complex hepatobiliary pancreatic surgery and more.

Dr. Mohamed Rela has performed more than 1300 liver transplant surgeries. In December 1997, a team led by him performed a successful liver transplantation for a five-day-old girl, which gave him an entry into the Guinness Book of Records in 2000.