Magdi Yacoub

Magdi Yacoub 2008

Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub OM (born November 16, 1935 in Belbis , Egypt ) is an Egyptian-British surgeon for thoracic and cardiovascular surgery.

Yacoub is the son of a surgeon and comes from a Coptic family. He studied medicine in Cairo , graduating in 1957, and came to Great Britain in 1962. After teaching as assistant professor in Chicago from 1969 onwards, he returned to England and in 1973 became a consultant cardiac and thoracic surgeon at Harefield Hospital in Harefield, London Borough of Hillingdon . In 1980, after a moratorium of twelve years ( Donald Ross 1968) , he revived heart transplantation in Great Britain at Harefield Hospital. In 1983 he achieved the first heart-lung transplant in Great Britain there, and in 1986 he became a professor at the National Heart and Lung Institute of Imperial College London School of Medicine. In 2001 he retired as a practicing surgeon with the National Health Service of Great Britain, but continued to work in an advisory capacity and operated for his aid organization Chain of Hope, which he founded in 1995 to operate on children with heart diseases that their parents would otherwise not be able to finance. He also remained active in surgical research, for example in the use of stem cells for parts of heart valves. In Harefield he heads a research institute named after him.

One of his patients, whom he had a heart transplanted to in 1982, was listed on the Guinness Book of World Records in 2013 for longest cardiac transplant survival.

In 2015 he received the Lister Medal . He is an honorary citizen of Bergamo . In 2014 he became a member of the Order of Merit , in 2011 he was awarded the Nile Order and in 1992 he was ennobled. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Académie des sciences .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Yacoub, Magdi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Yacoub, Magdi Habib
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British-Egyptian heart surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH	November 16, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Belbis