Dr Elankumaran K Head - Liver Diseases and Transplantation
Senior Consultant- Liver Transplant & HPB Surgery
Performed over 1500 liver transplantations with 95% success rate.
Leads one of the best teams in the country for the comprehensive treatment of liver diseases including liver transplantation.
Experience of more than 5000 complex liver, biliary and pancreatic surgeries.
MEDICAL QUALIFICATIONS
- MBBS- Madras Medical College and Research Institute (MMC), Chennai
- MS- (General Surgeon)- Madras Medical College and Research Institute (MMC), Chennai
- MRCS(Ed)- Royal College of Surgery of Edinburgh
- Mch (Surgical Gastro-enterology)- All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi
- Liver Transplant Fellowship – Medanta – medicity, Gurgaon
- PDF- The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. University, Chennai
- Certified Robotic Surgeon in Liver & Gastro-intestinal Surgery
- Multiorgan transplant training- Miami Transplant Institute
- Minimally invasive liver surgery training- Fudan, University Shanghai.
SPECILIZATION AND EXPERIENCES
- Experience of 17 years
- Pediatric Liver Transplantation- experienced in transplantation of very small children (less than 1 year or less than 10 kgs).
- Adult living donor and ABO incompatible liver transplantations
- Multi-visceral transplantation
- Robotic and Laparoscopic Liver and Pancreatic Surgeries
- Surgery for Portal Hypertension
- Specialized in the treatment of liver cancer.
MEMBERSHIP
- Life member-
- IMA
- ASI
- International Liver Transplant Society
- Indian Society of Gastroenterology
- Indian HPB surgery Association
- Founding member- Liver Transplant Society of India
AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Mayan Awards for excellence in Liver Transplantation 2022
- Rising Star in Liver Transplantation from TOI, 2019
- National first in selection for AIMS New Delhi, 2010
- Secured distinction in several subjects in both UG and PG in Madras Medical College
- Academic excellence and best all-rounder in school
- Part of team which did Asia’s first combined heart- liver surgery.
- South Asia first simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation
- Did consecutive five liver transplants in 36 hours.
- Has more than 20 publications in national and international journals.
- Has been the thesis guide for National board candidates in G.I. Surgery
- Faculty in international and national meetings on liver transplantation & HPB Surgery.
