Dr. Mohamed Rela - Top Liver Transplant Surgeon in India

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Rela is a leading expert in liver transplantation with over 30 years of experience. He is known as one of the best liver transplant surgeons in the world. Dr. Rela aims to address local healthcare needs with facilities that meet international standards, providing cost-effective treatments like multi-organ transplantation.

While talking about his education, we found that he likes to acquire knowledge. Dr. Mohamed Rela at first completed his MBBS at Stanley Medical College in Chennai. Then he pursued an MS from the same college. After that, he went to Edinburgh for FRCS and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1988.

In his more than 3 decades career, Dr. Mohamed Rela worked in various hospitals in the UK as well as in India. He joined London’s King Hospital in 1991 and became a professor of liver surgery. Here he specialised in -

• Auxiliary liver transplantation
• Split liver transplantation techniques
• Live donor liver transplantation

Dr. Mohamed Rela has performed over 4000 liver transplants and is highly regarded in his field, having published over 400 scientific articles on liver transplantation and complex liver surgeries. His dedication and services made him the top liver transplant surgeon in India and one of the best liver transplant surgeons in the world. 

He led a team that performed a liver transplant on a 5-day-old girl in December, 1997, earning a Guinness World Record in 2000. The girl is now 20 years old and studying law. Dr. Rela developed the split liver transplantation technique, where one liver is divided and transplanted into two patients. He is also recognized as one of the most innovative pediatric liver transplant surgeons by “Top Master’s in Healthcare Administration.”

He founded the Institute of Liver Disease and Transplantation at Gleneagles Global Health City in 2009, which quickly became India's largest liver transplant program, performing over 1500 transplants. He later established Rela Hospital in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.