Sir Magdi Habib Yakoub is an Egyptian Scientist, who is descended from a Coptic family from Upper Egypt. He is
one of the most famous Heart Surgeons in the world, and is considered the second in Heart Transplantation after Christian Bernard. He performed more than 25000 Heart operations including more than 2000 heart Transplantation and more than 2000 Open Heart Operations around the world. He conducted more than 400 researches in Cardiothoracic Surgery.
He was born in Al Sharkia governorate in Egypt in 1936 and studied Medicine in Cairo University. He reportedly said he decided to specialize in heart surgery after an aunt died of heart disease in her early 20s. He moved to Britain in 1962, and then taught at The University of Chicago. He became a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Harefield Hospital in 1973.
After retirement from performing surgery for the National Health Service in 2001 at the age of 65, Yacoub continues to act as a high-profile consultant and ambassador for the benefits of transplant surgery. He continues to operate on children through his charity, The Chain of Hope.
In 2006 he briefly came out of retirement to advice 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 hope it might recover.
In April 2007, it was reported that a British medical research team led by Yacoub had grown part of a human heart valve, from stem cells. Dr. Yakoub said that in ten years we will be able to transplant a full heart using Stem Cells.
It is worth mentioning that Dr. Yakoub performs Open Heart Operations in Egypt for free. In April 2009 he established the Aswan Heart Center which is located in Upper Egypt in order to help children with heart problems find the right medication.
The nick name of SIR was granted by Queen Elizabeth the second in 1966 and he is called in the British Media as "King of Hearts". In 2011 he was granted the Egyptian prize "The Greatest Nile Collar for Science and Humanity".
Thanks to Dr Yakoub for his contributions and achievements in Egypt and all over the world, as he has saved so many lives.
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