Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub

British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Date of birth:
16th November, 1935  

Qualifications/Honorary Degrees

MB BCh Cairo, 1957

FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed), FRCS (Glas) 1961

MRCS, LRCP (Lond) 1966

DSc (Hon) Brunel University 1985

DSc (Hon) University of Loughborough 1990

DSc (Hon) University of Cardiff 1986

MRCP 1986

PhD (Hon) University of Lund, Sweden 1988

DSc (Hon) American University at Cairo 1989

FRCP (Hon) 1990

FRS (Fellow of The Royal Society) 1999

FAMS (Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences) 1999

DSc (Hon) University of Middlesex 2002

Civil Honours

KB 1991

Order of Pakistan

Order of Lebanon

City of Parma

City of Athens

Current positions held

                                                                                                                                                          Membership of Learned Societies & Colleges

1. 1.        Society of Thoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland

2. 2.        British Cardiac Society

3. 3.        Royal Society of Medicine

4. 4.        German Society of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery

5. 5.        German Cardiac Society

6. 6.        Scandinavian Society of Thoracic Surgeons

7. 7.        Japanese Society of Surgeons

8. 8.        International Society of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery

9. 9.        European Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons

10. 10.      Thai Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons

11. 11.      Egyptian Society of Cardiology

12. 12.      South African Society of Cardiology

13. 13.      Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand

14. 14.      Pakistan Cardiac Society

15. 15.      Indian Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons

16. 16.      Fellow of the American College of Cardiology

17. 17.      Fellow of The Royal Society

18. 18.      Founding Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences

19. 19.      British Transplantation Society

Editorial Duties

Editor:

Current Opinion in Cardiology: (Coronary Artery Surgery)

Current Opinion in Transplantation: (Heart)

Annual of Cardiac Surgery

Coronary Artery Disease: (Surgical Editor)

Clinical Cardiology: (Co-Editor)

Consulting Editor:

Circulation

Member of Editorial Board:

European Heart Journal

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Experience

Rotating House Officer, Cairo University Hospital, Feb 1958-Jan 1959

Surgical Registrar, Postgraduate Surgical Unit, Cairo University Apr 1 1959-Mar 1961

Visiting Resident, Thoracic Surgical Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital, 1961

Resident Surgical Officer, London Chest Hospital, London UK April 1962-Mar 1963

Locum Resident Surgical Officer, London Chest Hospital, London UK Apr 1963-May 1963

Resident Surgical Officer, Brompton Hospital, May 1963-Oct 1963 Surgical Registrar, London Chest Hospital, Nov 1963 -Oct 1964

Rotating Senior Surgical Registrar, National Heart & Chest Hospitals Nov 1964-July 1968

Instructor & Assistant Professor, Section of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Chicago July 1968 - July 1969

Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Harefield Hospital, London UK Aug 1969- Apr 1992

Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, National Heart Hospital June 1973 - Dec 1989

BHF Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart & Lung Institute at Imperial College School of Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sept 1986 to present day