Dr. Mettu Srinivas Reddy

Dr. Mettu Srinivasa Reddy is one of the finest Transplant Surgeon in India. He is an experienced Liver Transplant Surgeon in the India. He has extensive experience in living donor liver transplantation, pediatric liver transplantation and surgery for cancers of the liver, pancreas and biliary tract. He believes in a truly multi-disciplinary approach to managing adults and children with complex liver problems and is strongly focused on treatment outcomes and the overall patient experience.

 After his General Surgery training, he moved to the United Kingdom to train in Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery. He completed fellowships at liver transplant units in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Leeds, and was awarded the FRCS in General Surgery & Transplant by the Royal College of Surgeons. During this period, he also conducted research into improving outcomes of transplantation using novel techniques of organ preservation at the Universities of Newcastle & Sunderland. This research was funded partly by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and culminated in his doctoral thesis.

 Dr Srinivas Reddy returned to India in 2012 to join Global hospital, Chennai as Senior Consultant surgeon in liver transplantation. Over the next seven years, he was involved in 1500+ living donor liver transplantations and was instrumental in setting up and mentoring liver transplantation units across India. In October 2018, he was appointed as the Director of Liver Transplantation in Dr Rela Institute & Medical Center, Chennai and stayed in that position until October 2020, where he played a key role as Director of Liver Transplantation unit at Rela Institute of Medical Sciences, Chennai and worked directly with Dr. Prof. Mohammed Rela.

 He is having overall experience of 1800+ liver transplants, out of which he has completed over 400+ pediatric liver transplants from age of few months to 18 years. At present, he associated with Global Hospitals & Rainbow Children’s in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

 He has over 140 peer-reviewed scientific publications to his credit, has authored multiple textbook chapters including co-authoring a chapter in ‘Gray’s Anatomy’. He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences on liver disease & liver transplantation. He is a member of the Pediatric Committee of the International Liver Transplantation Society and was involved in the development of the ILTS Pediatric liver transplant registry.

Other Professional engagements

Secretary- Liver Transplantation Society of India (LTSI) (2022-2024)                                                                                                                                                                                                       

LTSI Taskforce Lead for LTSI Organ Donation & Research (2022-2024)                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Editor for LTSI Newsletter ‘LiveReport’                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Member of Vanguard committee of iLDLT study group (2021-)

Clinical & Research interests

Living donor liver transplantation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Pediatric liver transplantation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Complex resections for liver and pancreatic tumors                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Biomechanics of liver regeneration                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Ischemia reperfusion injury