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Professeur à l'Imperial College
à Londres
Magdi
Yacoub, né le 16 novembre 1935 en Égypte, de nationalités
égyptienne et britannique, Professeur de chirurgie cardio-thoracique
à l’Imperial College, est considéré
comme l’un des meilleurs spécialistes internationaux
de la transplantation d’organes. Chirurgien hors pair, il
dirige à Londres le Magdi Yacoub Research Institute et
a réalisé le plus grand nombre de transplantations
cardiaques et pulmonaires au monde. C'est aussi un chercheur éminent
à qui l'on doit des contributions majeures concernant la
biologie des valves cardiaques et des transplantations. Soucieux
de renforcer les liens entre pays du Nord et du Sud, il anime
des programmes chirurgicaux et de recherche épidémiologique
au Mozambique, dans le Sud de l’Égypte et à
Alexandrie.
Sir
Magdi Yacoub, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart
and Lung Institute, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, is considered
as one of the best international experts of organ transplantation.
Head of the Magdi Yacoub Research Institute in London, he is an
outstanding surgeon who has performed the largest number of cardiac
and pulmonary transplantations in the world. Magdi Yacoub is also
a distinguished scientist who brought major contributions to the
biology of cardiac valves and of transplantations. In order to
reinforce the links between Northern and Southern countries, Magdi
Yacoub has developed surgical and epidemiological programmes in
Mozambic, South Egypt and Alexandria.
Curriculum
vitae
| 1957 |
Medical Bachelor, Cairo (Egypt)
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| 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)
0000 WHO Prize for Humanitarian Services
2004 International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation
Lifetime Achievement Award
2006 European Society of Cardiology Gold Medal
Le
30 novembre 2006
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