Mohammed Rela
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Dr. Mohammed Rela is one of the World's top liver transplant surgeons from the King's College Hospital, London.
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[edit] Early life
Dr. Rela was born in Mayiladuthurai, a small town in Tamil Nadu, India. He was student at the Kalakshetra School, Chennai and got his Medical degree and MS the from the Stanley Medical College, Chennai. Later he went to the United Kingdom and got another MS and then an FRCS in 1988.
[edit] Career in UK
In 1994, he joined the King's College Hospital, where the first liver transplant was done in 1989 and became actively involved in the liver transplant surgeries. At the King's College Hospital, he pioneerd the split liver transplantation technique, which involves the division of a healthy donor organ to help transplant it to two patients.
[edit] Achievements
Dr. Rela has so for performed more then 800 liver transplant surgeries and holds a World record of for transplanting liver into a five day old boy, which had an entry into the Guinness Book of Records in 2000.
