Background
Yacoub, Magdi Habib was born on November 16, 1935 in Belbis, Egypt.
educator cardiothoracic surgeon
Yacoub, Magdi Habib was born on November 16, 1935 in Belbis, Egypt.
Medical degree, Cario, Egypt, 1957. Honorary degree, Brunel University. Honorary degree, Cardiff University.
Honorary degree, University Loughborough. Honorary degree, University Middlesex. Honorary degree, University Lund, Sweden.
Surgical officer to surgical registrar London Chest Hospital, 1962. Rotating senior surgical registrar National Heart and Chest Hospital and Brompton Hospital, London, 1964—1968. Started pioneering heart surgery, 1967.
Joined Harefield Hospital, London, 1969. Instructor, assistant professor University Chicago Medical School, 1969. Consultant cardiothoracic surgeon National Heart Hospital-Royal Brompton and Harefield National Health Service Trust, London, 1973—1989.
British Heart Foundation professor cardiothoracic surgery National Heart and Lung Institute, 1986—2006. Professor cardiothoracic surgery National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College Faculty Medicine, since 1986. Founder, director research Magdi Yacoub Research Institute, Harefield (formerly known as Harefield Research Foundation), since 2001.
Retired from performing surgery and National Health Service, 2001. Special envoy National Health Service, 2002. Consultant and ambassador for the benefits of transplant surgery.
Fellow: Royal Society, Royal College Surgeons (Clement Prize Thomas award 1989), Royal Society Medicine (chair, Role Models Project).