1988 - FRCS, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK
2013 - Honoris Causa DSc, The Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University, India
He has an experience of over 28 years and has performed over 4000 liver transplants out of which 1500 transplants were done in the last 8 years alone.
Prof. Rela is a well known name in the field of liver transplantation not just in India but in the entire world. He is also a hepatobiliary surgeon and has performed procedures like Whipple’s surgery for Pancreatic cancer.
He has performed some of the world’s most rare and complex liver transplants
2011 - He performed a successful swap liver transplantation in adults
2009 - He performed one of the very first split liver transplantation
2003 - He performed a liver transplant on four and half year old girl who who suffering from end stage liver disease
1999 - He performed the very first living liver transplantation on 18 month old baby who had only 48 hours left before the surgery
Carcinoma gallbladder
Cholangiocarcinoma
Liver disease treatment
Chronic liver disease
Hepato biliary pancreatic disease
Auxiliary liver transplantation
Hepatoblastoma pancreaticoduodenectomy
Liver resection surgery
Liver transplant
Mono-segment liver transplantation in neonates
Split liver transplantation
Hepatitis A, B and C treatment
Liver disease treatment
Liver surgery
Living and deceased donor liver transplantation
Resection for HCC
He is one among the very few doctors to ever record his name in the book of Guinness book of world records.
2010 - Dr. Madhanagopal Oration and Medal, Madras Medical College
2000 - Guinness Book of Records for performing successful liver transplantation in a 5 year old
2012 - Scroll of Honour The Tamilnadu Dr. MGR medical university
2001 - Recognised teacher status and PhD supervisor, University of London
1996 - Panchanan Chatterjee Oration and Gold Medal: Association of Surgeons of India
A few of his published papers are:
He is the only living Indian surgeon who has published over 600 papers and he has published articles in the field of clinical liver transplantation. He is also a part of the editorial board and reviewer for many journals.
Autophagy - New insights into interplay between autophagy, gut microbiota and inflammatory responses in IBD, 2020
Liver transplantation - Long term outcome of mycophenolate mofetil rescue therapy for resistant acute allograft rejection in pediatric liver transplant recipients, 2008
Transplantation - Late cellular rejection in paediatric liver transplantation: aetiology and outcome, 2002
Annals of Surgery - Split Liver Transplantation King’s Hospital experience, 1998
