Dr. Rakesh Rai

Dr. Rakesh Rai is a hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) and transplant surgeon based at King's College Hospital London Dubai. He has completed extensive training at leading international centres: general surgical residency at King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, specialist registrar training in the UK (Royal Free Hospital London, Freeman Hospital Newcastle, and Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham), a transplant surgery fellowship at Methodist Transplant Institute in Memphis (one of the top ten liver transplant centres in the USA), and an international fellowship in living donor liver transplantation at Asan Medical Centre in Seoul, the world's largest liver transplant centre by volume. He holds FRCS certification and completed his CCT (Certificate of Completion of Training) on the UK specialist register.

Dr. Rai treats a wide range of liver, pancreatic, biliary and transplant conditions. His expertise includes surgical resection of primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) and secondary liver cancers, radiofrequency ablation of liver tumours, keyhole gallbladder removal for stones, pancreatic cancer surgery (Whipple's procedure), management of acute and chronic pancreatitis, bile duct strictures, and shunt surgery for portal hypertension. He has cared for patients from across India, Africa, the Middle East and Bangladesh seeking advanced surgical treatment, and has published in international journals and delivered scientific lectures worldwide.

Dr. Rai has taught postgraduate surgeons at Maharashtra University of Health Sciences and trained surgeons from Uganda in HPB surgery. He brings both research credentials (MD from University of Newcastle for work on radiofrequency ablation) and significant clinical experience from prestigious private hospitals in Mumbai before joining King's College Hospital.