Prof. Dr. Mohamed Rela

Director , MBBS, MS, FRCS
31 years of experience
Chennai, India

Dr. Mohamed Rela is a renowned surgeon known for his expertise on liver transplantation and hepato pancreato biliary (HPB) surgery and performed more than 3000 liver transplant surgeries so far.

In Dec 1997, a team led by him has done a successful liver transplantation for a five-day-old girl

About Doctor

Dr. Mohamed Rela is a renowned surgeon known for his expertise on liver transplantation and hepato pancreato biliary (HPB) surgery and performed more than 3000 liver transplant surgeries so far.
In Dec 1997, a team led by him has done a successful liver transplantation for a five-day-old girl, which made him an entry into the Guinness Book of Records in 2000.
He carried out the first living related Liver Transplant on a patient with acute Liver Failure in the UK.
He is a successfully done a liver transplant for a four-and-a-half-year-old girl suffering from a terminal stage liver disease.
Dr. Rela participated as part of a team from King's College Hospital, London which did liver transplant(s) six times for a patient to save her life by performing a bone marrow transplant.
A team led by him has successfully done Swap liver transplantation on Adults (first of its kind in India), at Global Hospitals & Health city, Chennai.
His research interest is in the field of liver regeneration and harnessing its potential in making liver surgery safer for liver donors, liver recipients and for patients with advanced liver tumors.