Dr. Mahesh Gopasetty is a renowned Transplant Surgeon with over 15 years of rich experience in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Liver Transplant Surgery. He completed his under graduation and post-graduation from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal and was awarded a Gold Medal for being the best outgoing post-graduate student in the department of general surgery in the year 2002.

He has worked in UK for three years where he also obtained his MRCS in the year 2007. He then moved on to USA to pursue training in Transplantation with a Fellowship in Abdominal Multi-organ Transplantation from The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston (2008).

In 2009, he moved to University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) to train in Paediatric Multi-visceral Transplantation. Prior to joining Fortis, he has worked in Apollo Hospitals, BG Road from 2010 and has been leading the Liver Transplant Program for the last three years.

Areas of Interest & Expertise

His key areas of interest and expertise include Living Donor and Cadaveric Donor Liver Transplants; Paediatric Liver Transplants; Small Intestine Transplants; Complex Liver Transplants; Portal Hypertension Surgeries; Kidney & Pancreas Transplants and Complex Pancreatic Surgeries. Dr. Mahesh holds a rich experience of more than 1600 Liver Transplants (Adult & Paediatric) and more than 100 Small intestine Transplants.

Dr. Sumana Kolar Ramachandra is a highly qualified and well trained Hepato-pancreatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgeon with over 15 years of experience. She completed her Masters in Surgery from St. Johns Medical College, Bangalore, and worked as a faculty in the same hospital for 3 years. She then trained for one year in Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplant at Sir Gangaram Hospital, New Delhi. Before doing her ASTS fellowship in Multi-organ Transplant surgery (Liver, Kidney, Pancreas, Small Bowel) including Paediatric Transplants at Thomas E Starzl Institute, UPMC,Pittsburgh, USA.

After finishing her fellowship she worked as a consultant in Liver Transplant and HPB surgery at Medanta, The Medicity and later was recruited as the chief of Liver Transplant and HPB surgery at The Columbia Asia – Liver Unit in Bangalore for a period of 2 and a half years before joining the Fortis group.

Areas of Special Interest & Expertise

She is adept at Living Donor Liver Transplants and multi organ transplants including liver, kidney Pancreas and Intestine. She also has gained experience in vascular surgery and trauma during her tenure in the department of General surgery at St johns Medical College hospital. Her areas of special interest include Living Donor Hepatectomy, Small for Size Grafts in Living Donor Liver Transplants, Paediatric Liver Transplants and Complex Hepatobiliary surgery.

She is one of the very few women surgeons in the specialty of Liver and Multi-organ Transplantation in the world and is nominated as a committee member of – Women in Transplantation at the International Liver Transplant Society.

Dr. Sumana has presented many award wining papers and posters in National and International conferences and has also been acknowledged with the Young Investigators award for presentation on modulation for small size grafts at International Liver transplant Society.

She is a member of numerous other medical specialties, including the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.