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Dr. Ravi Mohanka

Director - Liver Transplant & HPB

Department

Liver Transplant & HPB

Sub-Speciality

Liver diseases
Liver tumours
Liver Transplant

Qualification

MBBS, MS, DNB, ASTS Transplant Fellowship, FACS

FICS, FALS (HPB), FIAGES, MSc (Organ Transplant), MBA

Experience

Dr. Mohanka has trained at Government Medical College (GMC) Nagpur, University of Rochester Medical Centre (URMC) at Strong Memorial Hospital, Thomas E Starzl Transplantation Institute at University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre (UPMC), Washington University at St. Louis (WashU), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B), University of Toronto and others. He has worked at some of the leading hospitals in transplant such as Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Medanta Medicity, Global Hospital and currently has Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital.

e has accumulated a large experience with more than 1500 liver transplants, mostly adult and paediatric living donor liver transplants, and more than 1000 liver, gall bladder and bile duct cancer surgeries, some of which has been featured in media and publications. He is also an avid clinician-scientist and has published more than 60 scientific articles in international journals and chapters in books. His articles have been cited more than 1200 times. He has conducted and participated in many research projects and made more than 200 faculty presentations in scientific meetings globally.

He is passionate about increasing organ donation awareness and activity in India and actively helps many governmental organizations such as ROTTO / SOTTO and NGOs such as ZTCC, Mohan Foundation, Organ India and others to establish robust organ allocation systems in India. He has helped many government and trust hospitals in metros, tier 2 and 3 cities to establish liver transplant programs. He has been instrumental in making transplants more affordable with these and other initiatives. He has a keen interest in using technology to ease medical and surgical problems and has patented 2 devices for the same.

He has served as the president of the Liver Transplant Society of India (LTSI) in 2022 - 2023. He is also an active member of several professional international societies and was the Chairman of the Membership and Communication Committee of the International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS) in 2022 - 2023.

He has been elected as Vice President (Surgical) of the Indian Society of Organ Transplant (ISOT) for the years 2023-2025.

Contact details

Ravi.Mohanka@rfhospital.org