Magdi Yacoub

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Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub FRS, FRCS (Arabic: مجدى يعقوب‎), (born November 16, 1935), is an eminent heart surgeon. He was born in Belbis, Egypt, to a Coptic Orthodox family hailing from the southern town of Assiut. He studied at Cairo University. He taught at Chicago, and moved to Britain in 1962 where he became a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Harefield Hospital (1969-2001) and director of medical research and education (from 1992). He was appointed professor at the National Heart and Lung Institute in 1986, and was involved in the development of the techniques of heart and heart-lung transplantation. In 1980 came his transplant operation on Derrick Morris, who was Europe's longest surviving heart transplant patient until his death in July 2005. Among celebrities whose lives Magdi Yacoub extended was the comedian, Eric Morecambe. In 2002 he was selected to spearhead a government recruitment drive for overseas doctors. He was knighted in 1992 by HM Queen Elizabeth II.

Having retired from performing surgery at the age of 65, he continues to act as a high profile consultant and ambassador for the benefits of transplant surgery.

In 2006 Sir Magdi briefly came out of retirement to advise on a complicated procedure which required removing a transplant heart from a patient whose own heart had recovered. The patient's original heart had not been removed during transplant surgery nearly a decade earlier in the off chance it might recover [1].

In April 2007, it was reported that a British medical research team led by Sir Magdi had grown part of a human heart valve, from stem cells, a first. It is hoped that such tissue will be used eventually for transplantation in humans suffering from heart disease. The anticipated time line is within three years depending on successful animal trials.[2]

Sir Magdi Yacoub has also had a house named after him at The Petchey Academy which opened in September.

See also

• List of prominent Coptsar:مجدي يعقوب

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Curriculum vitae: 1957 Medical Bachelor, Cairo (Egypt)

1959-1961 Surgical Registrar, Postgraduate Surgical Unit, Cairo University 1962-1964 Resident Surgical Officer, then Surgical Registrar, London Chest Hospital (UK) 1964-1968 Rotating Senior Surgical Registrar, National Heart and Chest Hospitals, London 1969 Instructor and Assistant Professor, University of Chicago (USA) 1973-2001 Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, National Heart Hospital-Royal Brompton and Harefield National Health Service (NHS) Trust, London 1986-2006 British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery 1986-present Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine 2001-present Founder and Director of Research of the Magdi Yacoub Research Institute, Harefield

Membership 1999 Fellow of the Royal Society (London) 0000 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK)

Awards 1991 Knighthood for services to Medicine (UK) 1998 Texas Heart Institute Ray C. Fish Award for Scientific Achievement 0000 in Cardiovascular Disease 1999 Lifetime outstanding achievement award in recognition of contribution to medicine, 0000 Secretary of State for Health (UK) 2001 The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Heart Failure Summit : Kaufman Awardee 2003 Golden Hippocrates International Award for Excellence in Cardiac Surgery (Moscow) 2007 Pride of Britain - Lifetime Achievment Award 0000 WHO Prize for Humanitarian Services 2004 International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation Lifetime Achievement Award 2006 European Society of Cardiology Gold Medal 2007 Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Lifetime Achievement Award

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