Dr. P Anand Rama Murthy

Dr. Anand Ramamurthy is Senior Consultant and Director Training, Academics and Research at The Centre for Liver Disease and Transplantation at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor (AHERF) in Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation. He excelled his medical and surgical training with a meritorious academic record from Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi University. Later, he underwent specialty training in Surgical Gastroenterology from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi where he worked with pioneers in the field of surgery for portal hypertension, pancreatitis and periampullary malignancies, ulcerative colitis and liver transplantation among others.  Dr. Ramamurthy subsequently joined the Liver Transplant program at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital as a Senior Clinical Fellow and has an extensive experience of living related liver transplants and management of critical patients in liver transplant intensive care unit. He has been a part of numerous ‘firsts’ in the liver transplant program in India including the first dual lobe living donor liver transplant, combined liver-kidney transplant, the oldest and the youngest recipients among others. To gain further experience in various aspects of deceased donor multiorgan retrieval and whole liver transplantation, he worked at King’s College Hospital, London. He is a member of several prestigious professional organizations including the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Association of Surgeons of India, Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology, Indian Society of Organ Transplantation, Indian Medical Association, and National Academy of Medical Sciences, among others. He has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and textbooks.  Apart from transplant, Dr. Ramamurthy also performs numerous hepatobiliary pancreatic surgeries such as pylorus-preserving pancreatoduodenectomy for periampullary malignancy, liver resections in patients with cirrhosis and malignancy of the gall-bladder among others.