{{Short description|Indian liver-transplant surgeon}} {{resume-like|date=September 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Use Indian English|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Mohamed Rela |image = Mohamed_Rela.jpg |image_size = |alt = |caption = |birth_date = |birth_place = Kiliyanur, Mayiladuthurai district, Tamil Nadu, India |death_date = |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = |ethnicity = |fields = Liver transplantation, Pancreatic disease |workplaces = King's College Hospital, London<br />Dr Rela Institute and Medical Centre Chennai<br /> Institute of Liver Disease and Transplantation Chennai |alma_mater = Stanley Medical College |doctoral_advisor = |academic_advisors = |doctoral_students = |notable_students = |known_for = Liver transplantation<br />Split Liver Transplantation<br />Auxiliary Liver Transplantation<br />Resection for HCC, Cholangio carcinoma, Hepatoblastoma <br />Pancreaticoduodenectomy |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |awards = Guinness Book of Records in 2000 |signature = <!--(filename only)--> |signature_alt = |footnotes = | website = {{URL|https://www.relainstitute.com/}} }} '''Mohamed Rela''' is an Indian surgeon and expert in liver transplantation and hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgery. He is considered one of the world's best liver transplant surgeons.{{cn|date=April 2026}} He is in the Guinness Book of Records for performing a liver transplant on a 5-day-old baby.
He is the chairman and director of Dr Rela Hospital, India and the Professor of Liver Surgery and Transplantation, at the King's College Hospital, London.<ref name="Ildtindia.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.ildtindia.com/rela.php |title=Institute of Liver Disease and Transplantation -Dr Rela Institute and Medical Centre, Liver Transplantation in India Chennai, Liver Transplant in chennai, Liver Transplant Hospital in Chennai, Liver Transplant Surgery in Chennai, Liver Transplant Cost, Cost of Liver Transplant, Liver Transplant India, Hospitals in chennai, Liver Transplantation |publisher=Ildtindia.com |date=2014-01-24 |access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref>
==Education== {{BLP unreferenced section|date=October 2024}} Rela was born in Kiliyanur village near Mayiladuthurai in Tamil Nadu, India. His parents are S A Shamsudin and Hasma Beevi. He received his MBBS (in 1980) and MS degree from the Stanley Medical College, Chennai.
He later went to the United Kingdom in 1986, to receive another MS from Edinburgh and become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1988.
==Career== Rela worked in various hospitals in UK before joining London's King's College{{citation needed|date=October 2024}} Hospital in 1991, where he is the Professor of liver surgery.
Rela performed over 6000 liver transplants, including one on a five-day-old baby, for which he was listed in the Guinness Book of Records in 2000.<ref name="New life for Baebhen">{{cite web|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/37857.stm |title=UK {{pipe}} New life for Baebhen |publisher=BBC News |date=1997-12-08 |access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref><ref name="Transplanting hope">{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/life/2004/05/28/stories/2004052800100200.htm |title=Transplanting hope |publisher=The Hindu Business Line |date=2004-05-28 |access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref><ref name="Archived copy">{{cite web |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1505/15050850.htm |title=Archived copy |website=www.hinduonnet.com |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020602172536/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1505/15050850.htm |archive-date=2 June 2002 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>
Rela works in India and has started his own institution Dr.Rela Institute & Medical Centre - Hospital in Chrompet, Chennai, India in 2018 where he set up a Living Donor Liver Transplant program performing over 300 liver transplants a year.<ref name="Ildtindia.com"/>
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==External links== *Home page at [http://www.ildtindia.com Institute of Liver Disease & Transplantation, Global Hospitals & Health City, Chennai, India] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307115627/http://www.ildtindia.com/ |date=7 March 2021 }} *Profile at [http://www.kch.nhs.uk/services/liver/hepatopancreatobiliary-surgery/?entryid2=2875 KCH, London, UK] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101226235454/http://www.kch.nhs.uk/services/liver/hepatopancreatobiliary-surgery/?entryid2=2875 |date=26 December 2010 }}
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