Nadey Hakim - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Nadey Hakim
- Nadey S.
- Hakim FASMBS (born April 1958), is a British-Lebanese professor of transplantation surgery at Imperial College London, general surgeon, bariatric surgeon, writer, musician and sculptor, best known for kidney and pancreas transplantations, and being part of the surgical team that performed the world's first hand transplantation in 1998 and then the double arm transplantation in 2000.
- A number of his sculptures are on display around the world, including President Macron at the Élysée Palace in Paris, Pope Francis at the Vatican, Michelangelos David in the Madonna del Parto Museum collection, and Kim Jong-un at the Pyongyang Museum in North Korea. After graduating in medicine from Paris Descartes University and completing his surgical training and Fellowships from Guy's Hospital in London, the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota in the States, the Soviet Union and University College London, he became appointed to St Mary's Hospital where in 1995, he performed London's first pancreas transplantation.
- He was part of the team that performed the first kidney transplantation in the Arab world in 2003, during the Iraq War, and later developed a kidney transplant technique using an unusually small 2.5 cm incision.
- The procedure was depicted in Henry Ward's 2010 painting The 'Finger-Assisted' Nephrectomy of Professor Nadey Hakim', commissioned to raise awareness of legal organ donations.
- Subsequently, in 2013, he performed the first kidney transplantation in Abuja, Nigeria. Following an 'unfair' dismissal by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in 2015, he was reinstated in 2016 after a tribunal.
- In the same year, he received the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur at a ceremony held at the French Embassy in London.
- The following year, Imperial appointed him as their president's envoy.
- Between 2018 and 2019, he became Visiting Professor of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, and received an Honorary Doctorate from the Beirut Arab University and a Doctor of Arts degree from the University of Bolton. His role in writing and editing have included producing more than 23 textbooks and over 150 peer-reviewed papers, being editor-in-chief of International Surgery and an editorial board member for Transplantation Proceedings and Graft.
- In his role in global health issues, he has been involved in collaborations tackling disease in Africa and has continued with raising the issue of the risks of unregulated trade in organ donation. As a musician, he plays the clarinet and has featured in performances of the hymn 'Jerusalem', honouring the Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin and dedicated to the children of Lebanon, and in A Time Remembered as a tribute to Air France pilot, Michel Bacos.
