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28 October, 2008
BMW Edge lecture theatre
Federation Square, Melbourne
5:30pm registration, 6:00pm - 7:00pm lecture
Free admission
Registration essential - email mnhs.rsvp@med.monash.edu.au or call +61 3 9905 5971
Sir Magdi Yacoub - Heart & Lung transplant pioneer
Sir Magdi Yacoub has performed more transplants than any other surgeon in the world and, as a scientist, his interest in the basic mechanisms of heart structure and function in health and disease has improved transplant surgery and patient care. He retired from the National Health Service (UK) in September 2001, and continues to head his research programme at Harefield Hospital, which he sees as, "treating patients in the future."
Biographical information
Magdi Yacoub was born and raised in Cairo where he qualified as a doctor in 1957. He relocated to Britain in 1962 and since then has made pioneering strides in cardiothoracic surgery. Under his leadership, Harefield Hospital became the UK's leading transplant centre, performing over 200 operations a year. Madgi specialised in working with children with congenital heart defects and performed complex operations on the tiny hearts of babies in their first days of life.
In a career spanning over four decades, Magdi has been involved in a number of firsts. He was involved in the first UK heart transplant, performed the first UK live lobe lung transplant and the first ever domino operation, in which one patient with failing lungs is given a new heart and lungs, with a second patient receiving the first patients fully functioning heart.
For more information please contact the Monash University Medical Foundation on (03) 9905 5971
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