Prof. Dr. Mohamed Rela
Specialist: Liver Transplant Surgeon & HPB SurgeonExperience: 43 years
About Doctor:
- Chairman & Managing Director, Dr. Rela Institute & Medical Centre, Chennai
- Prof. Mohamed Rela is a pioneer in liver transplantation with over 43+ years of experience.
- In December 1997, a team led by Prof. Mohamed Rela performed successful liver transplantation on a five-day-old girl, which gave him an entry into the Guinness Book of World Records in 2000. She is now a 29-year-old law student.
- Prof. Mohamed Rela has performed over4800 livertransplant surgeries.
Prof. Mohamed Rela started the Institute of Liver Disease and Transplantation at Global Gleneagles Health City.- 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.
- Prof. Mohamed Rela is also a professor of Liver Transplant Surgery at King’s College Hospital, London.
- Prof. Mohamed Rela is a pioneering figure in liver transplantation with over three decades of experience. He started India’s largest liver transplant program in 2009, and has been performing over 300 liver transplants annually since then. In 2018, he founded Rela Hospital to provide high-quality, affordable medical care, including advanced multi-organ transplantation.
- Prof. Mohamed Rela is one of the most accomplished surgeons in the world.
- Prof. Mohamed Rela has published over 400 scientific articles and papers on liver transplantation, complex hepatobiliary pancreatic surgery and more.
- Prof. Mohamed Rela has pioneered the technique of split liver transplantation where one cadaver liver is split into two and transplanted into two individuals.
- As per an article published by ‘Top master’s in healthcare administration’, he is also one of the most Innovative Pediatric Surgeons alive.
SPECIALISATION:
- Abdominal Trauma
- HPB Surgery
- Liver Transplantation
- Chronic Liver Specialist
List of Treatments:
- Liver Transplantation
- Fatty liver
- Hepatitis A, B and C
- Cirrhosis
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) ,The Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University, India
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Dr. Rela Institute and Medical Centre
- Dr. Rela Institute & Medical Centre was established under the leadership of Prof. Mohamed Rela, a world-renowned surgeon in the field of Liver Surgery and Transplantation.
- Dr. Rela made a world-record by performing a Liver Transplantation on a 5-day old baby and made his name in the Guinness Book of Records.
- Dr. Mohamed Rela, who has performed more than 4000 liver transplant surgeries.

