Mohammed Rela

Mohammed Rela
Born	Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Citizenship	British, India
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Liver transplantation, Pancreatic disease
Institutions	King's College Hospital, London Global Hospital, Hyderabad Global Hospital, Chennai Institute of Liver Disease and Transplantation Chennai
Alma mater	University of Madras
Known for	Liver transplantation Split Liver Transplantation Auxilary Liver Transplantation Resection for HCC, Cholangio carcinoma, Hepatoblastoma Pancreaticoduodenectomy
Notable awards	Guinness Book of Records in 2000

Mohamed Rela, is an Indian surgeon known for his expertise on liver transplantation and hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgery. He is one of the world's top liver transplant surgeons from the King's College Hospital, London. He made his name in the Guinness Book of Records for performing a Liver Transplantation on a 5 day old baby. Prof. Mohamed Rela is the Director and Head of the Institute of Liver diseases and Transplantation, Global Hospitals Group, India and the Professor of Liver Surgery and Transplantation, King's College Hospital, London.^[1]

Background

Prof. Mohamed Rela was born in Kiliyanur village near Mayiladuthurai in Tamil Nadu, India. He was a student of the Kalakshetra School, Chennai and got his MBBS (in 1980) and MS degree from the Stanley Medical College, Chennai. Later he went to the United Kingdom in 1986 and got another MS from Edinburgh and then became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1988.

Career

Prof. Mohamed Rela worked in various hospitals in UK before joining London’s Prestigious King’s College Hospital, Europe’s renowned Liver Transplant Center in 1991. At the King's College Hospital, he pioneered the split liver transplantation technique; and has one of the largest experiences in the world in Auxiliary Liver Transplantation. His area of Interest is Pediatric Liver Transplantation. Prof.Rela doses more 60 pediatric liver transplantation in Global Hospital Chennai which is the largest pediatric program in South Asia.^[2]

Rela is also a busy hepatobiliary surgeon, performing Whipple’s surgery for pancreatic cancer, liver resections for Cholangiocarcinoma and HCC resection in Cirrhotic patients. His research interest is in the field of clinical liver transplantation and developing animal models for hydrodynamic gene therapy. He has over 280 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He currently works in India, where he has set up a successful Living Donor Liver Transplant program performing over 250 liver transplants a year. While he is now affiliated to Global Hospitals & Health City in Chennai, he still works at King's College Hospital, in UK.

The 'Master Class in Liver Disease' (MCLD) series was envisaged by Dr. Rela as a means to deliver high quality teaching in liver disease and transplantation. Since its first edition in 2011, it has quickly established itself as one of the most popular scientific meetings in the field in the Indian sub-continent. Each edition is planned as a single theme conference with participation of national & international experts. Previous editions have dealt with topics such as the pathological basis of liver disease, hepatobiliary tumours, paediatric liver diseases,peri-operative care of the liver recipient,living donor liver transplantation, and acute liver failure.^[3]

The forthcoming MCLD is titled- ‘Liver Diseases & Transplantation - Back to Basics’ is being organized in Chennai from January 20 to January 22, 2017 at ITC Grand Chola, Chennai. Registrations are now open at the conference website.^[4] www.mcldindia.com.

Achievements

• Rela has so far performed more than 3000 liver transplant surgeries.^[5]
• In December 1997, a team led by him performed a successful liver transplantation for a five-day-old girl,^[6] which made him an entry into the Guinness Book of Records in 2000.^[7][8]
• In March 1999, he carried out the first living related liver transplant on a patient with acute liver failure in the UK. 18-month-old Luke Bettelley, was given just 48 hours to live before the operation.^[9]
• In June 2003, he successfully performed a liver transplant for a four-and-a-half-year-old girl from Ahmedabad, Pranali Bhat, suffering from a terminal stage liver disease, at the Global Hospital, Hyderabad.^[10][11]
• In August 2003, he was a 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.^[12]
• In August 2004, a team led by him has successfully conducted the liver transplantation for a five-year-old Pakistani girl, Batul Hasan, at the Global Hospital, Hyderabad.^[13][14]
• In September 2009, a team led by him successfully performed the split liver transplantation (first of its kind in India), at the Global Hospital, Chennai. The liver was split during the retrieval operation into a smaller left lobe for transplanting a young girl and a larger right lobe for transplanting an older woman with end stage liver disease.^{[15][16][17][18][19]}
• In May 2011, 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.^{[15][16][17][18][20]}
• He is the only liver surgeon in India with over 300 Scientific Publications

Publications

• In Scientific Commons
• Results of Split Liver Transplantation in Children
• Split Liver Transplantation: King's College Hospital Experience
• Liver transplantation in children
• Liver transplantation for alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency in children
• Renal biopsy in liver transplant recipients
• A complication of infrarenal arterial conduit following orthotopic liver transplant
• Liver transplantation with monosegments
• Auxiliary Partial Orthotopic Liver Transplantation for Crigler-Najjar Syndrome Type I
• Biliary complications after orthotopic liver transplantation
• Reducing Bile Leak Following Segmental Liver Transplantation: Understanding Biliary Anatomy of the Caudate Lobe
• Overcoming the limitations of living donor and split liver transplantation: A proposal for adult recipients (the best of the east in the west)
• Liver transplant for giant cell hepatitis with autoimmune haemolytic anaemia
• Pretransplant MELD score and post Liver transplantation survival in the UK and Ireland
• Liver resection in liver transplant recipients
• Pancreaticoduodenectomy with radical lymphadenectomy is not contraindicated for patients with established chronic liver disease and portal hypertension
• Managing Arterial Collaterals Due to Coeliac Axis Stenosis During Pancreaticoduodenectomy
• Govil S, Bharathan A, Ashwin Rammohan, Kanagavelu R, Kaliamoorthy I, Reddy MS, Rela M. Liver resection for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma: Why left is sometimes right. Epub Ahead of print HPB(Oxford) 2016^[51]

See also

• Liver
• Liver transplantation
• Pancreas
• Pancreatic disease
• Global Hospitals Group

References

External links

Official Site

• Home page at Institute of Liver Disease & Transplantation, Global Hospitals & Health City, Chennai, India
• Conference page at Master Class in Liver Disease

Site directory

• Profile at KCH, London, UK
• Profile at London Bridge Hospital, London, UK

News media

• International Conference and Live Workshop Gastro Con 2008 in Chennai
• Organ donation awareness program by MOHAN foundation, India (Video)