Dr. Ramkiran Reddy Cherukuru — Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Ramkiran Reddy Cherukuru is a Consultant at Rela Hospital, Chennai, with more than 15 years of experience. His profile records surgical gastroenterology together with general surgery, and his operating list covers liver transplant, liver tumor surgery, pancreatectomy, the Whipple procedure and gastrectomy.

His qualifications are dated at two-year intervals. He read MBBS at Osmania Medical College in Hyderabad in 2007 and took his MS in general surgery at the same college in 2011, followed by the MRCS of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2013. His DNB in GI surgery was taken at Global Hospitals, Lakdikapul, in Hyderabad in 2015, and a post-doctoral fellowship in liver transplantation at Gleneagles Global Health City in Chennai in 2017.

His research follows the transplant thread through his training. He has published in Liver Transplantation on the feasibility and safety of split liver transplantation in the Indian context, and in Annals of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery on vein resection in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma involving the porto mesenteric venous axis, the latter matching the pancreatic half of his procedure list.

His conference record runs alongside it. He presented on splenorenal shunt surgeries at the APASICON state conference in 2011, and took posters to two International Liver Transplant Society meetings: acute liver failure management in London in 2014 and split liver transplantation in Prague in 2017.

Both of his theses are recorded. His MS thesis of 2011 examined subfascial ligation of perforator veins, and his DNB thesis of 2015 examined donor outcomes after living donor liver transplantation.