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ISHLT to recognize transplant pioneer Dr. Magdi Yacoub with lifetime achievement award

elp cure babies born with the life-threatening condition of the main heart vessels being connected backwards.

About Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub

In 1980, he conducted his first successful heart transplant at Harefield Hospital in Middlesex, England. Three years later, he performed the first heart-lung transplant. Today, he is known for having performed more heart transplants than any other physician in the world.

The same year of his successful transplant surgery, he established the heart transplant program at Harefield Hospital that was to become the largest transplant program in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in the world. He subsequently developed both heart-lung and lung transplant programs. More recently, he established a Mechanical Circulatory Support program at Harefield.

Throughout his career, Dr. Yacoub has been active in both clinical and basic research. He has published extensively and has more than 600 Medline citations. He is now the Director of Research at the Harefield Research Foundation. He also founded The Chain of Hope, a non-profit organization dedicated to introducing routine life-saving treatment to countries with no cardiac facilities.

Dr. Yacoub has received numerous honors, including being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of England for his service in the field of cardiac surgery and his scientific contribution has been recognized by the Fellowship of the Royal Society of London.


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International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
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