Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub (born 16 November 1935) is an Egyptian professor and eminent cardiac surgeon. She was born in Belbeis, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt, to a Coptic Orthodox family, and her origins are from Minya. He studied medicine at Cairo University, educated in Chicago, then moved to Britain in 1962 to work at Chest Hospital in London, then became a specialist in heart and lung surgery at Harfield Hospital (from 1969 to 2001), and director of the Department of Scientific Research and Education (since 1992). He was appointed professor at the National Heart and Lung Institute in 1986, and has been developing heart transplant techniques since 1967. In 1980 he performed a heart transplant on Drake Morris, who became the longest-lived European heart transplant patient until his death in July 2005.
In 2001, at the age of 65, he retired from surgery and continued as a consultant and theorist for organ transplants. In 2006, Dr. Magdi Yacoub cut his retirement from operations to lead a complex operation that required the removal of a transplanted heart in a patient after her natural heart was healed, as the normal heart of the sick child was still removed during the previous transplant, which was carried out by Sir Magdi Yacoub.
He received the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, and received titles and decorations from the largest universities around the world, such as: Brunel University, Cardiff University, Loughborough University, Middlesex University (British universities), as well as from Lund University in Sweden. He has honorary chairs at the University of Lahore, Pakistan, and the University of Siena, Italy.
In 1983, he performed a heart transplant on an Englishman named John McCafferty, to enter the Guinness Book of Records as the longest living person to live with a transferred heart, for 33 years until John died in 2016.
He was awarded the Pride of Britain Award on 11 October 2007, presented live by the British ITV channel, in the presence of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and the award is given to people who have contributed in various forms of courage and giving or who have contributed to social and local development. The jury decided that Dr. Yacoub has completed more than 20,000 heart operations in Britain, and has contributed to the work of a charity for pediatric heart patients in the developing world, and is still working in the field of medical research; Therefore, he was chosen from the jury to be the prominent person in the ceremony, and the award was handed over at the end of the ceremony with the attendance of dozens of people whose lives Dr. Yacoub helped save on stage.
Dr. Magdi Yacoub received the British Order of Merit for the year 2014 from Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Britain.
In Republican Decree No. 1 of 2011, former President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak ratified on January 6, 2011 to grant Dr. "Magdi Habib Yaqoub" the Order of the Great Collar of the Nile for his abundant and sincere efforts in the field of heart surgery, which he personally received in a special ceremony held in his honor.
A British medical team led by Dr. Magdi Yacoub succeeded in developing a heart valve using stem cells, a discovery that will allow the use of artificially implanted parts of the heart within three years. Dr. Magdi Yacoub says that within ten years, a complete heart transplant using stem cells will be achieved. The medical team had succeeded in extracting stem cells from the bones, transplanting them and developing them into tissues that turned into heart valves, and by placing these cells in an environment of collagen formed into heart valves that were 3 centimeters long.
Dr. Magdi Yacoub visits Egypt every period, during which he performs many open-heart surgeries for free. Dr. Magdi Yacoub established a center for heart operations in the city of Aswan in Upper Egypt in 2009. A statue of him was established in Aswan and another in Belbeis in a square bearing his name in appreciation of his great role in the field of medicine.
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