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	Royal Society \| Our work \| Spotlight on our scientists \| Scientist profiles featured this month \| King of hearts
		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.
		Magdi Yacoub was born and raised in Cairo where he qualified as a doctor in 1957.
		Magdi Yacoubs work is all about helping people live longer and more fulfilling lives and describes "seeing people who are not well getting so much better" as the most satisfying part of his job.
	www.royalsoc.ac.uk /page.asp?id=1573 (1101 words)

	Magdi Yacoub - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub (born November 16, 1935), is the world's leading heart surgeon.
		In 1980 came his transplant operation on Derrick Morris, who until his death in July 2005 was Europe's longest surviving heart transplant patient.
		Among celebrities whose lives Magdi Yacoub extended was much loved comedian, Eric Morecambe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sir_Magdi_Yacoub (208 words)

	Coptic Medical Society
		Alan Milburn, MP appointed Sir Magdi as Special Envoy to the NHS in a National drive to recruit overseas qualified specialists in a new and innovative International Fellowship scheme in the specialties of cardiothoracic surgery, histopathology, imaging and psychiatry.
		Magdi Yacoub was born in Egypt in 1935 and wanted to be a "heart doctor" ever since he was a small boy.
		Prof Yacoub and his team also give up their free time to help perform life-saving surgery on children born with serious heart problems in poorer parts of Africa and Asia where there are no resources.
	www.copticmedical.com /yacoub.htm (2900 words)

	Face to face (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sir Magdi Yacoub is a pioneer in the field of heart and lung transplantation and one of the world’s leading cardiac surgeons’.
		Sir Magdi Yacoub has made a remarkable contribution to heart and heart-lung transplantation not only as the surgeon who has performed more transplants than anybody else in the world, but as a scientist interested in the fundamental aspects of organ transplantation.
		Professor Yacoub is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
	www.athens2004.com /en/FVolunteersIssue2aceToFace/newsletter/volunteers/newsletter_inside (561 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Horizon - Breath of Life
		SIR MAGDI YACOUB: I said to Damian and Josephine because I believe it to be true that they represent THE best and the most noble sentiments human beings can have and therefore, I mean I have terrific respect and admiration for them.
		SIR MAGDI YACOUB: There are good things and there are worrying things, but the good things are that her lungs, the new lungs are improving all the time and they are providing good oxygen, good gas exchange and it's looking better every day, so that is quite encouraging.
		SIR MAGDI YACOUB: Every time we lose a patient there is great sadness because you know this is a human being and you get to know them, so there is an emotional part attached to it.
	www.bbc.co.uk /science/horizon/1999/breath_life_script.shtml (4745 words)

	Primary Care - NHS Magazine: Feature article - Magdi's world of opportunities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sir Magdi Yacoub might have retired from NHS operating theatres, but there is no letting up in the work schedule of the 66-year-old pioneer of British heart transplant surgery.
		Sir Magdi also has invitations to more than 10 national and international meetings in the US where he hopes to promote the fellowship through a mix of speeches and informal dinners.
		Yacoub admits underfunding is an issue but believes the Government is committed to tackling the problem.
	www.nhs.uk /nhsmagazine/primarycare/archives/may2002/feature1.asp (1139 words)

	KEELE UNIVERSITY NEWS RELEASE: MAGDI YACOUB AT KEELE
		Professor Yacoub is a pioneer in the field of heart and lung transplantation and one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons'.
		Magdi Yacoub has specialised in working with children with congenital heart malformations and has done pioneering work on the "switch" operation whereby the two great arteries to the heart are transposed.
		Magdi Yacoub was born and educated in Cairo where he qualified as a doctor in 1957.
	www.keele.ac.uk /depts/uso/pr/press/archive/2003/ps100103.htm (875 words)

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		Edgar AJ; Birks EJ; Yacoub MH; Polak JM; (01/07/2001)Â "Cloning of dexamethasone-induced transcript: a novel glucocorticoid-induced gene that is upregulated in emphysema.
		Yacoub MH; (01/04/2001)Â "A novel strategy to maximize the efficacy of left ventricular assist devices as a bridge to recovery.
		Thomson J; Machado R; Pauciulo M; Morgan N; Yacoub M; Corris P; McNeil K; Loyd J; Nichols W; Trembath R; (01/02/2001)Â "Familial and sporadic primary pulmonary hypertension is caused by BMPR2 gene mutations resulting in haploinsufficiency of the bone morphogenetic protein tÃ¹ype II receptor.
	www1.imperial.ac.uk /medicine/people/m.yacoub.html (3527 words)

	Waitrose.com - Heart Surgeon Sir Magdi Yakoub - Waitrose Food Illustrated
		Sir Magdi has transplanted more hearts than anyone else on earth.
		We're at the Royal Brompton Hospital in west London, where Sir Magdi is director of transplantation, and it is late evening.
		Sir Magdi Yacoub's manners are impeccable, a beautiful blend of Egyptian courtesy and British reserve.
	www.waitrose.com /food_drink/wfi/notesandmiscellany/profilesandinterviews/0107078.asp (948 words)

	Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, the renowned heart surgeon, is regarded as a virtual deity here in his native Egypt.
		As the day wears on and the atmosphere becomes more tense others, near the back of the 100-strong queue, are beginning to worry that the team will go home to Britain at the end of the day and their chance will be lost.
		In 1996 Yacoub performed a four-hour heart operation on him at Harefield Hospital, Middlesex, watched by the late Diana, Princess of Wales, who was fully kitted out in a surgical gown.
	www.heart-transplant.co.uk /Professor%20Sir%20Madgi%20Yacoub.htm (1823 words)

	BBC News \| HEALTH \| Heart pioneer named 'NHS envoy'
		Sir Magdi, an internationally-renowned figure in his field, has the job of tempting consultants from other countries to come and fill vacancies in the NHS in England.
		Ministers are hoping to recruit as many as 450 specialists in certain specialties from abroad over the next three years in their efforts to cut waiting times for operations in the UK.
		Sir Magdi will help to promote the "International Fellowship Scheme", under which overseas doctors will be able to come to work in the NHS and carry out research.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/1844040.stm (426 words)

	Specialist Health Services (West London): 25 May 2004: Westminster Hall debates (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		None of those hospitals is more famous than Harefield; under the leadership of Sir Magdi Yacoub and his team, it has pioneered advances in heart care, and has carried out more heart transplants than any other hospital.
		Sir Magdi Yacoub's heart science centre is also on that site, ensuring that bed and bench—patient and research—are near each other, to the benefit of all.
		That is what Sir Magdi Yacoub counselled in May 2000, when he welcomed progress in London, but not at the expense of Harefield.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /whall?id=2004-05-25.355.1 (11626 words)

	Julia Polak Research Trust - "Intensive Care" Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the mid-Eighties, a chance encounter with Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub - the world renowned transplant surgeon based at Harefield Hospital, led to a collaborative project investigating the tissues of the lungs of patients requiring a transplant.
		In the mid-Eighties a chance encounter with Sir Magdi - the world renowned transplant surgeon based at Harefield Hospital, led to a collaborative project investigating the tissues of the lungs of patients requiring a transplant.
		Sir Magdi performed a "domino transplant"- her heart and lungs would be removed and replaced by those of a donor and her heart, which was enlarged, would then be transplanted into another patient, a doctor, who has since died.
	www.polak-transplant.med.ic.ac.uk /reviews.html (1664 words)

	Magdi Yacoub - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Magdi Yacoub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Magdi Yacoub - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Magdi Yacoub.
		thumbSir Magdi Habib Yacoub was born on November 16th 1935 in Cairo, Egypt to a Coptic Orthodox family.
		He taught at Chicago, and moved to Britain in 1962 where he became a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Harefield Hospital (1969-2001) and director of medical research and education (from 1992).
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Magdi-Yacoub.html (204 words)

	ISHLT to recognize transplant pioneer Dr. Magdi Yacoub with lifetime achievement award
		Yacoub has devoted himself to the field of heart and lung transplantation for nearly 40 years.
		In Dr. Yacoub's case, the award recognizes a distinguished career of notable and varied contributions.
		Yacoub has received numerous honors, including being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of England for his service in the field of cardiac surgery and his scientific contribution has been recognized by the Fellowship of the Royal Society of London.
	www.egeinfonet.i8.com /news/2004/may/1.html (513 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Local London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Harefield Hospital's legendary heart surgeon professor Sir Magdi Yacoub was honoured by the public for his ground-breaking work in cardiac surgery at the BBC's People Awards, which were televised on Sunday night.
		Sir Magdi was awarded the lifetime achievement award, which he accepted in a typically humble manner.
		As well as being head of Harefield's surgical team, Sir Magdi is also the British Heart Foundation's professor of cardio-thoracic surgery.
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=116634 (165 words)

	Notícies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Yacoub knows most European cardiothoracic surgeons, one of the specialist groups that the Government is targeting.
		Yacoub's claim "that many experienced, very intelligent and progressive specialists want to come and work in the NHS for two years or so" is almost certainly the case.
		While Sir George Alberti, President of the Royal College of Physicians, welcomes the Government's acceptance that ther is a genuine crisis, he stresses: "We have only half the physicians we need.
	www.catalans.co.uk /eurodocs.htm (978 words)

	The Biomedical Executive Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		CryoLife, Inc. (NYSE: CRY), a biomaterials and biosurgical device company, announced today that CryoLife and The Magdi Yacoub Institute, at the Imperial College, London, UK, have entered into a three year research collaboration to develop methods to improve the utilization of unfixed xenografts (animal tissues) for human transplantation.
		This research effort will leverage The Magdi Yacoub Institute's extensive knowledge of heart valve structure and biochemistry, and is designed to optimize decellularization technology in the preparation of animal tissues for human implantation.
		For almost 10 years, Professor Yacoub's group has been among the foremost laboratories in the world that centers its efforts to define and characterize heart valve cells and their activities.
	www.biomedexec.com /newsfeed/article.asp?article=1231037 (589 words)

	Coptic Medical Society
		The Coptic community honoured Professor Sir Magdy Yacoub in a joyful occasion attended by His Holiness Pope Shenouda at the Royal Society of Medicine on Saturday 26th January 2002.His Holiness traveled to the UK to take part in this celebration.
		He described Professor Sir Magdy as a genius who inherited such genius from his ancestors the pharaohs.
		Their treatment was given free, made possible through the charity "Chain of Hope" founded by Sir Magdy in 1993.
	www.copticmedical.com (536 words)

	Worldandnation: Nation in brief
		It took an average of six months on the pump for the hearts to recover, and the patients, once near death, have since returned to work, Sir Magdi Yacoub said at the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology.
		Yacoub reported results on a study of 15 patients with end-stage heart failure, which means their hearts had almost stopped working.
		Yacoub implanted the heart pumps in the chests of the patients and left them there for as long as it took to reverse the heart damage.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/09/03/news_pf/Worldandnation/Nation_in_brief.shtml (643 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Yacoub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sister Angel Yacoub, a nurse by training, said work on the wall was continuing day and night and that the deafening noise of drills and compressors frightened...
		Shadi Rabah, 28 and Ali Yacoub, 28 both of Birmingham, were apprehended by Chilton County Deputy Johnathon Benson, Sergeant Steve Tate and a dog team from Bibb...
		Bahrainis Ahmed Hamad Fahad Alshiridi and Yacoub Yousuf Ahmed Abdulla were burned in a petrol blaze inside the BDF camp in Hamala.
	nametraq.org /Jan04/XYZ/Yacoub.shtml (2205 words)

	ISHLT to recognize transplant pioneer Dr. Magdi Yacoub with lifetime achievement award
		The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) recognizes renowned surgeon and transplant pioneer, Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, for his clinical practice, research and education efforts with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award during the organization's Annual Meeting, April 21—24 in San Francisco.
		The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the science and treatment of end-stage heart and lung diseases.
		To attend the ISHLT Annual Meeting as a member of the media, please contact Kelly Goff at kellygoff@server63.com or 210-378-1980, or Lauren Mason at masonpr@satx.rr.com or 210-731-6646.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-04/isfh-itr041504.php (694 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Moving stories: Magdi Yacoub
		BBC World Service's The World Today programme is asking migrants who have been successful in their adopted countries how they got to the top of their field.
		Sir Magdi Yacoub is one of the world's leading heart surgeons.
		He works at the National Heart and Lung Institute, part of Imperial College London, but was born in the north of Egypt.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3322515.stm (593 words)

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		Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub's research is primarily conducted at the Harefield Heart Science Centre and is based on the belief that improving our understanding of important clinical cardiac problems requires a broad basis in research at both clinical and fundamental levels.Â The principal research programme is focused on two major themes, heart failure and tissue engineering.
		Magdi Yacoub - Artificial Heart and Bridge to Recovery: A multidisciplinary programme involving contributions from several groups at the Heart Science centre.
		Professor Sir Magdi H Yacoub FRS (Principal Investigator)
	www1.imperial.ac.uk /med/about/divisions/nhli/cardio/heart/regrep/myoreg (559 words)

	Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day: Sir Magdi Yacoub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Born in Egypt in 1935, Sir Magdi knew when he was a small boy that he wanted to be a heart surgeon.
		Sir Magdi specialised in working with children with congenital heart defects and pioneered the performance of complex operations on the tiny hearts of babies during their first day of life.
		To pursue that wherever, and try in a humble modest way to offer it back to a community where one lives, where one has lived in the past, but most importantly globally, is very important." Sir Magdi Yacoub, cardiac surgeon and founder of Chain of Hope.
	www.eamonn.com /archives/001385.html (252 words)

	Ananova - McCartney nominated for lifetime achievement award
		Pioneering heart surgeon professor Sir Magdi Yacoub and musician Sir Paul McCartney have been nominated for lifetime achievement accolades in a new awards initiative launched by the BBC.
		Famous personalities nominated for awards include pop stars Sir Elton John and Robbie Williams in the music category, actors Sir Michael Caine and Sir Sean Connery in the film section and comic Billy Connolly and Harry Potter author JK Rowling in the arts.
		In the lifetime achievement section other nominees include Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson, peace campaigner Colin Parry, whose son was killed by an IRA bomb in Warrington, and consultant plastic surgeon Steven Wall.
	www.ananova.com /entertainment/story/sm_56132.html (326 words)

	Magdi Yacoub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sir Magdi Yacoub, the leading cardiologist in the worldSir Magdi Habib Yacoub was born on November 16th 1935 in Cairo, Egypt to a Coptic Orthodox family.
		He was knighted in 1992 by HM Queen Elizabeth II.
		Sir Magdi Yacoub in Africa Category:1935 births Category:Egyptian people Yacoub, Magdi Yacoub, Magdi
	www.keywordmage.net /ma/magdi-yacoub.html (162 words)

	Experts Examined - Sir Magdi Yacoub
		Sir Magdi Yacoub on transplant medicine, Nobel Prize winners and Mozart.
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	www.medical-buzz.com /v25278.html (136 words)

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