Dr. Rajasekhar Perumalla - Consultant Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgeon, Astra Speciality Hospital

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Dr. Rajasekhar Perumalla

Liver Transplant Surgeon

Professional Summary
Dr. Rajasekhar Perumalla, an active clinician, performs liver, kidney and pancreas transplants. He has been an invited organizer and participant in several national consensus conferences addressing issues critical to the Organ transplantation.

• Specialties: Liver Transplant, Pediatric Liver Transplant, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant, Liver Tumors & Portal Hypertension, Dialysis Access
• Areas of Expertise: Liver / Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation, Hepato-Biliary & Pancreatic surgery, Vascular & Peritoneal Access procedures

Education & Training

He began his medical training at Andhra Medical College, Vishakhapatnam followed by General Surgery residency at the PGIMER in Chandigarh. He was Formerly Assistant Professor of Surgery at St. John's Medical College, Bangalore and received the prestigious Common Wealth Fellowship and pursued training in Renal & Pancreatic Transplantation at Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, U.K.

He obtained FRCS from The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and received HPB training from King's College Hospital, London, Christie Cancer Institute, Manchester, U.K and went and did Transplant Surgery training from Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge & Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan.

He also received HPB Surgery training from TMH, Mumbai and Post Doctoral training from SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India.

Experience

Dr. Rajasekhar Perumalla is a Senior Consultant at Centre for Liver, Digestive diseases and Multi-Organ Transplantation Unit at Fortis Hospital, Chennai. He obtained a graduate Medical degree from Andhra Medical College, Vishakapatnam, India. He did his Surgical Residency training from PGIMER, Chandigarh, India, one of the leading medical institutions in India.

He underwent specialty training in Hepato - Biliary - Pancreatic & Organ Transplant Surgery from ST. John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, where he performed over 500 hepatobiliary pancreatic and gastrointestinal surgeries.

He completed his Fellowship in Renal & Pancreatic Transplant Surgery (Liverpool, U.K). And later worked in HPB & Transplant Unit at King's College Hospital, London and subsequently joined the Multi-Organ Transplant program at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom where he gained experience in various aspects of deceased donor multiorgan retrieval and whole liver transplantation.

He worked as Visiting Fellow at Kaohsiung Liver Transplant Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan where he received specialty training in HPB Surgery & living donor liver transplantation. Following this advanced training he worked as a Senior Consultant Surgeon in Transplant Unit at Global Hospital, Chennai working under Prof. Mohamed Rela. He has an extensive experience of over 500 cadaver and >250 living related liver transplants and management of critical patients in liver transplant intensive care unit. He also had performed more than 800 renal transplants on his own and has special interest in Pancreas transplantation.

Qualifications

MS, DNB, PDCC, MNAMS, FRCS

• Fellow in Transplant Surgery, Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia
• Fellow at Kaohsiung Liver Transplant Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
• Fellowship in HPB & Liver Transplant (Cambridge University Hospital, U.K)
• Fellow in Christie Cancer institute, Manchester, United Kingdom
• Fellowship in HPB & Transplant Surgery (King's College Hospital, London, U.K)
• Fellowship in Endocrine Surgery & Pancreatic Transplantation, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India
• Fellowship in Renal & Pancreatic Transplant Surgery (Liverpool, U.K)

Academic Appointments

• Adjunct Professor, Bharath University, Tamilnadu
• Ex-Tutor, Cancer Institute, Adyar, Chennai, India
• Ex-Senior Lecturer, St. John's National Academy of Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India
• Ex-Senior Resident, SGPGIMS, Lucknow
• Ex-Tutor & Senior Resident, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

Surgical Training & Fellowships

Professional Experience

Journal Publications

• Perumalla R, Jamieson NV, Praseedom RK. Left renal vein as an option for portal inflow in liver transplant recipients with portal vein thrombosis. Transpl Int. 2008 Jul; 21 (7): 701-3.
• Rajasekhar P, Mishra A, Mishra SK. Reoperative Surgery in persistent and recurrent hyperparathyroidism: IJS Vol 63, No 3, 2001; 228-234.
• Rajasekhar P, Mishra SK. Reoperative Parathyroid Surgery; Ann Endo Surg Vol 5, No.5, 2000; 29-33
• Ravindra KV, Rajasekhar P, Rozario AP, et al. Superior mesenteric artery syndrome following ileo-anal pouch procedure. Ind J of Gastroenterology: Vol 18(1) 1999, 35-36.
• Rajasekhar P, Khanna SK, Singh Grupperat, et al. Awareness and Surveillance of AIDS amongst medics and paramedics. Annual PGI Medical Bulletin. 1993

Memberships

• The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• British Transplant Society
• American Hepatic-Pancreatic-Biliary association
• Indian Society of Organ Transplantation
• Indian Hepatic-Pancreatic-Biliary Association
• Vascular Society of India
• Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology

Affiliations & Outreach Clinics

• Kamineni Hospital, L.B. Nagar, Hyderabad
• Action Balaji Hospital, Paschim Vihar, New Delhi
• AYKAI Hospital, Ludhiana
• S. R. Kalla Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan