About Dr. Rajesh Rajalingam

Dr. Rajesh Rajalingam completed his MBBS in Tirunelveli Medical College and his MS in JIPMER, Pondicherry. He completed his super specialisation (MCh) in Gastrointestinal/HPB surgery at GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi. He joined the unit as a post-doctoral fellow in 2011. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship in Liver Transplantation under Dr. M.G.R Medical University and was appointed as a consultant surgeon in the unit in 2014. Dr Rajesh has a special interest in Donor Hepatectomy, liver haemodynamics and regeneration in different settings and their clinical application and also in the management of hepatopancreatic biliary malignancies.

Clinical Expertise

• Living Donor and Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation
• Donor hepatectomy
• Advanced Resections for HPB malignancies including vascular resections
• Research interests: Portal haemodynamics and Liver Regeneration, Paediatric Liver Transplantation

Honors and Awards

• GOLD MEDAL in ANATOMY(MBBS)
• Attended various National and International conferences (surgical, gastrointestinal and Transplantation surgery) like   PON CON 2006, 2007, SURGERY UPDATE 2007, HPB CON 2008, IHPBA 2010, IAP 2011, IASG 2012, ILTS 2013,2017 and Laparoscopy basic training programmes.
• Presented a paper in IHBPA 2010 – Extra- Hepatic Portal Venous Obstruction: Surgery, An Effective Remedy! and posters in IHBPA, Argentina 2010
• Best poster award in IHPBA 2010 DELHI for Management of hypersplenism in Non-cirrhotic portal hypertension: A surgical series.