Nadey S. Hakim
FASMBS (born 9 April 1958), is a British-Lebanese professor of
transplantation surgery at
Imperial College London
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and general surgeon at the
Cleveland Clinic London. He is also a writer, musician and sculptor, known for
kidney
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and
pancreas transplantation
A pancreas transplant is an organ transplant that involves implanting a healthy pancreas (one that can produce insulin) into a person who usually has diabetes.
Overview
Because the pancreas is a vital organ, performing functions necessary in the ...
s, and being part of the surgical team that performed the world's first
hand transplantation
Hand transplantation is a surgical procedure to transplant a hand from one human to another. The donor hand usually comes from a brain-dead donor and is transplanted to a recipient who has lost one or both hands/arms. Most hand transplants to da ...
in 1998 and then the double arm transplantation in 2000. Several of his sculptures are on display around the world, including
President Macron
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at the
Élysée Palace
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in Paris,
Pope Francis
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at the Vatican, ''
Michelangelos David
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''David'' ...
'' in the
Madonna del Parto
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Museum collection, and
Kim Jong-un
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at the Pyongyang Museum in North Korea.
After graduating in medicine from
Paris Descartes University
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now called
Université Paris Cité
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and completing his surgical training and
Fellowship
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In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements.
Within the context of higher education ...
s from
Guy's Hospital
Guy's Hospital is an NHS hospital in the borough of Southwark in central London. It is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and one of the institutions that comprise the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre.
...
in London, the
Mayo Clinic
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and the
University of Minnesota
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in the States, the
Soviet Union
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and
University College London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
, budget = ...
, he became appointed to
St Mary's Hospital where in 1995, he performed London's first
pancreas transplantation
A pancreas transplant is an organ transplant that involves implanting a healthy pancreas (one that can produce insulin) into a person who usually has diabetes.
Overview
Because the pancreas is a vital organ, performing functions necessary in the ...
. He was part of the team that performed the first kidney transplantation in the
Arab world
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in 2003, during the
Iraq War
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, and later developed a
kidney transplant
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technique using an unusually small 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 donation
Organ donation is the process when a person allows an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive or dead with the assent of the next of kin.
Donation may be for re ...
s. Subsequently, in 2013, he performed the first kidney transplantation in
Abuja
Abuja () is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated at the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Plann ...
, Nigeria.
Following an 'unfair' dismissal by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in 2015, he was reinstated in 2016 after a
tribunal
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For example, an advocate who appears before a court with a single ...
. In the same year, he received the
Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur
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at a ceremony held at the French Embassy in London. The following year,
Imperial
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Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to:
Places
United States
* Imperial, California
* Imperial, Missouri
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* Imperial, Pennsylvania
* Imperial, Texa ...
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
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from the
Beirut Arab University
Beirut Arab University (BAU) ( ar, جـامعة بيروت العربية) is a Lebanese private university located in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded by the Lebanese Waqf El-Bir wal Ihsan Society in 1960. The University attained the Internation ...
and a
Doctor of Arts
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degree from the
University of Bolton
, established = 2004 – gained University Status 1982 – Bolton Institute of Higher Education
, type = Public
, endowment = £160,000 (2009)
, administrative_staff = 700+
, chancellor ...
.
His role in writing and editing have included producing over 23 textbooks and 150 peer-reviewed papers, being
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
of the ''
International Surgery'' and an editorial board member for the journals ''
Transplantation Proceedings'' and ''Graft''. In his role in global health issues, he has been involved in collaborations tackling disease in Africa and has raised the issue of the risks of unregulated trade in
organ donation
Organ donation is the process when a person allows an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive or dead with the assent of the next of kin.
Donation may be for re ...
.
As a musician, he plays the
clarinet
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Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...
and his performances include the hymn '
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
', dedicated to the children of Lebanon, and in ''A Time Remembered'' as a tribute to
Air France
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pilot,
Michel Bacos
Michel Bacos (3 May 1924 – 26 March 2019) was a French airline pilot. He was the captain of Air France Flight 139 when it was hijacked on 27 June 1976 by Palestinian and German terrorists belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of P ...
.
Early life and education
Nadey S. Hakim was born in Britain,
in 1958
[Curriculum Vitae: Professor Nadey Hakim]
Nadey Hakim, 2016. Imperial College. Accessed 10 November 2019. into a Lebanese Christian family.
As a teenager, when in
Lebanon
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, he witnessed the war. He later recalled that while the city was under fire from bombs and rockets, "the thing I used to do was put my headphones on and listen to music because I played the clarinet. Schools were closed… We didn’t think we would survive."
[ He spent this time reading and learning languages, eventually nine in all including French, Italian, German, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew and Japanese,][ and fled Lebanon before completing school.][ He was inspired by his father.][
]
Career
Hakim is a laureate
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of Cochin Port Royal Hospital Medical School and received his MD from Paris Descartes University
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in 1984.[ He subsequently began his surgical training at ]Guy's Hospital
Guy's Hospital is an NHS hospital in the borough of Southwark in central London. It is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and one of the institutions that comprise the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre.
...
, London.
In 1988, he completed a fellowship
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Within the context of higher education ...
in gastrointestinal surgery from the Mayo Clinic
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,[ before gaining an ]International College of Surgeons
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ICS works thou ...
(ICS) travelling scholarship to the Soviet Union
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in 1989, and then returning to London to finish his thesis on intestinal transplantation
Intestine transplantation (intestinal transplantation, or small bowel transplantation) is the surgical replacement of the small intestine for chronic and acute cases of intestinal failure. While intestinal failure can oftentimes be treated wit ...
and receive his PhD from University College London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
, budget = ...
in 1991.[ In 1993, he completed his surgical training at Guy's, before being awarded a fellowship in transplantation at the ]University of Minnesota
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, which he completed in 1995.[
In 1995, he performed London's first pancreas transplantation at St Mary's Hospital] and began the first pancreas transplant
A pancreas transplant is an organ transplant that involves implanting a healthy pancreas (one that can produce insulin) into a person who usually has diabetes.
Overview
Because the pancreas is a vital organ, performing functions necessary in the ...
programme in South East England
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.
Limb transplantation
Hakim had hoped that the world's first hand transplantation
Hand transplantation is a surgical procedure to transplant a hand from one human to another. The donor hand usually comes from a brain-dead donor and is transplanted to a recipient who has lost one or both hands/arms. Most hand transplants to da ...
would be performed in London. Instead, representing Britain,[ in September 1998, then working at ]St Mary's Hospital, London
St Mary's Hospital is an NHS hospital in Paddington, in the City of Westminster, London, founded in 1845. Since the UK's first academic health science centre was created in 2008, it has been operated by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, wh ...
, he joined the team led by Jean-Michel Dubernard
Jean-Michel Dubernard (; 17 May 1941 – 10 July 2021) was a French medical doctor specializing in transplant surgery who served as a Deputy in the French National Assembly. He was born in Lyon.
Dr. Dubernard was most famous for performi ...
at the Édouard Herriot Hospital in Lyon
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, that then performed the world's first hand transplantation, an operation that took 14 hours. The recipient of the donor hand, Clint Hallam
Hand transplantation is a surgical procedure to transplant a hand from one human to another. The donor hand usually comes from a brain-dead donor and is transplanted to a recipient who has lost one or both hands/arms. Most hand transplants to da ...
, failed to follow aftercare directions and later requested that the transplanted hand be removed. Hakim amputated the hand in February 2001 in London.
In 2000, he was one of 20 surgeons led by Dubernard, involved in the transplantation of two arms on a 33 year old French man who lost both his arms in an explosive accident fours years earlier.
Kidney transplantation
He revealed in an interview that one of the surgeons who inspired Hakim and whom he met, was the American Joseph Murray
Joseph Edward Murray (April 1, 1919 – November 26, 2012) was an American plastic surgeon who performed the first successful human kidney transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick on December 23, 1954.
Murray shared the No ...
, who performed the first successful kidney transplantation in 1954, an operation involving two identical twins and the donor being live.
In an article in '' Experimental and Clinical Transplantation'' (2016), Hakim recalled being invited to Yemen by professor Hussain Al Kaff to visit Aden
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, Yemen
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to attend the first International Yemeni Conference on Nephro-Urology in March 2003, during the Iraq War
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. During the visit, a Saudi team led by Faissal Shaheen from the Saudi Centre for Organ Transplantation, together with the Austrians, Robert Fitzgerald, Felix Stockenhuber and Annilies Fitzgerald, and Hakim who led Al Kaff's doctors from Aden, performed 10 operations, consisting of five living related kidney transplantations in one sitting over 20 hours, despite political instability and its near abandonment. These were the first kidney transplantations in the Arab world
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, which, as a result, led to the establishment of The Arab European Foundation, with the mission "to help poor Arab countries" and the motto of "poverty should not be a barrier to health or education!".
During Hakim's appointment as surgical director of the West London Renal and Transplant Centre at Hammersmith Hospital
Hammersmith Hospital, formerly the Military Orthopaedic Hospital, and later the Special Surgical Hospital, is a major teaching hospital in White City, West London. It is part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in the London Borough of H ...
, he developed a kidney transplant technique using an unusually small 2.5 cm incision. In 2010 the procedure was depicted in a painting commissioned to raise awareness of legal organ donations, titled "'' The 'Finger-Assisted' Nephrectomy of Professor Nadey Hakim", by Henry Ward, and was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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, as part of the BP Portrait Award
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s.
As adjunct professor
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the job security of the tenure vary in different parts of the world, however the genera ...
of transplantation surgery at Imperial College London
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,[ in November 2013, he performed the first kidney transplant at the Garki Hospital in ]Abuja
Abuja () is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated at the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Plann ...
, Nigeria. Over the subsequent five days, a total of eight living related kidney transplantations were performed at the hospital, and all using the finger assisted technique.[
In 2016, following a dispute about him operating on two private patients and an NHS patient on the same day in 2013, resulting in a subsequent suspension in 2014 and dismissal in 2015, he was reinstated by the Trust after a tribunal concluded that the dismissal was “unfair”.]
Other roles
Hakim has been an advisor on transplantation issues to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
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* the use of health technologies withi ...
[ and has been an examiner for the ]Royal College of Surgeons of England
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. His private practice is in Harley Street
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.[ As a bariatric surgeon, he is a member of The International Bariatric Surgery Review Committee (IBSRC) 2010.] He is also a general surgeon at The Cleveland Clinic London.
He has worked with several journals including editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
of ''International Surgery'', and as editorial board member for '' Transplantation Proceedings'' and ''Graft
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*Graft, Netherlands, a village in the municipality of Graft-De Rijp
Science and technology
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*Grafting, the joining of plant ti ...
'',[ and for the ''International Journal of Organ Transplantation Medicine''.] With Jean-Michel Dubernard, and Earl Owen, he co-edited the textbook ''Composite Tissue Allograft''. It included an introduction by Sir Roy Calne
Sir Roy Yorke Calne, FRCP, FRCS, FRS (born 30 December 1930) is a British surgeon and pioneer in organ transplantation.
Career
His most notable achievements are the world's first liver, heart, and lung transplant together with John Wallwork ...
. He co-edited the book ''Surgical Complications: Diagnosis and Treatment'', which was reviewed by Sir Harold Ellis.
Hakim is a supporter of the Conservative party
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[ and has been involved in global health issues including the issue of 'black market organs' and the risks of the unregulated trade in organ donation.] He has been involved in collaborations tackling disease in Africa. In 2019 he was appointed vice-president of the British Red Cross.
Art and music
He is a portrait sculptor and in 2016 was winner of the Baron's Prize, Medical Art Society.[ Hakim's list of busts include:
* Michelangelo Buonarroti's '']David
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'' which became included in the Madonna del Parto
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Museum collection.
*Roger Williams
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,
*Queen Elizabeth II
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in 2013,[
*]David Cameron
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(2014), unveiled at the Carlton Club in London,[
*]Theresa May
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at Downing Street
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.
*President Macron
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at the Élysée Palace
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.
*Pope Francis
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(2017), at the Vatican.[
*]Kim Jong-un
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(2018), at the Pyongyang Museum in North Korea. Hakim was subsequently asked to create Moon Jae-in
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.
*Senior Selvanayagam (2019).
* Donald Trump
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Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
* Boris Johnson
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[
* ]Vladimir Putin
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* David Bernstein
* Narendra Modi
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Having learnt to play the clarinet as a child, he continues to play and has recorded several CDs
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.[ Some pieces have been conducted and performed with composer and multi-instrumentalist, Darryl John Kennedy. The Wisconsin television programme ''Look-In'', featured them both performing the hymn ''Jerusalem'', on a CD entitled ''A Promise for Peace'' and dedicated to the children of Lebanon.][ The Music of Diplomacy]
The international artistry of Darryl John Kennedy. www.darryljohnkennedy.com Together, they also performed ''A Time Remembered'', as a tribute to Air France
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pilot, Michel Bacos
Michel Bacos (3 May 1924 – 26 March 2019) was a French airline pilot. He was the captain of Air France Flight 139 when it was hijacked on 27 June 1976 by Palestinian and German terrorists belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of P ...
.
Awards and honours
In 1989, during his travelling scholarship to the Soviet, Hakim was elected a member of the Soviet Surgical Society.[ He has been awarded honorary professorships from the universities of ]Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...
, Peru
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, Ankara
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and São Paulo
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, and has been a visiting professor
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to several universities including Harvard University
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and the Cleveland Clinic
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.
On 4 December 2008, at the World Congress of the ICS,[ of which he was previously a president,] Hakim was appointed the first Max Thorek Professor of Surgery, an endowed chair of surgery set up in the name of Max Thorek
Max Thorek (10 March 1880 – 25 January 1960) was a Hungarian-American surgeon, best known for founding the International College of Surgeons in 1935 and writing his autobiography entitled ''A Surgeon's World'' in 1943. who founded the ICS. In 2010, he was awarded the Bailiff Grand Cross Order of St John of Jerusalem
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. He became the 35th president of the ICS.[ He has been president of the section of transplantation of the ]Royal Society of Medicine
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The Society was established in 1805 as Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, meeting in two rooms in barristers’ chambers ...
[ and between 2014 and 2016 was the Society's vice president.][
In January 2016, he was appointed to the rank of ]Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur
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by President Francois Hollande.[ The ceremony was held at the French Embassy in London, where he received commendations from both ]Secretary of State for Health
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at the time Jeremy Hunt
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and French ambassador Sylvie Bermann.[ He was elected vice president of Conservative Health April 2016.] In June 2017 he was appointed as president's Envoy of Imperial College London
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and he was also appointed vice-president of the International Medical Sciences Academy
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.
In March 2018, Hakim was appointed as Visiting Professor of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade.[Prof. Nadey Hakim Inaugurated into the Honorary Visiting Professor of Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade]
HRH Crown Princess Katherine Foundation (8 March 2018). At this same ceremony, the new book ''Surgery for Benign Oesophageal Disorders'' was officially promoted.[ The following month, he was appointed as Ambassador to the ]All-party parliamentary group
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for diabetes. In the same year, he received an Honorary Doctorate
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from the Beirut Arab University
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at its 59th anniversary. In 2019, he received a Doctor of Arts
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degree for his contribution to aesthetics
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from the University of Bolton
, established = 2004 – gained University Status 1982 – Bolton Institute of Higher Education
, type = Public
, endowment = £160,000 (2009)
, administrative_staff = 700+
, chancellor ...
.[ In 2021 he became honorary fellow of the ]Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow
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Founded by Peter Lowe after receiving a royal charter by James VI in 1599, as the Glasgow Faculty, it originally exis ...
.[ In the same year he received the ]Order of Saint Agatha
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from the Republic of San Marino.
In 2021 he was awarded the Order of Friendship
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.
Family and personal life
Hakim married Nicole and they have four children.[
]
Selected publications
Books
''Enteric Physiology of the Transplanted Intestine''
R. G. Landes, Austin, Texas
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(1994). . Co-edited with Michael G. Sarr
''Transplantation Surgery''
Springer Verlag
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Originally founded in 1842 in ...
, London (2001). . Co-edited with Gabriel Danovitch
''Pancreas and Islet Transplantation''
Oxford University Press
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, Oxford (2002). . Co-edited with Robert J. Stratta, Peter Friend and Alan Colman
''Surgical Complications: Diagnosis and Treatment''
Imperial College Press
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, London (2007). . Co-edited with Vassilios E. Papalois
''Composite Tissue Allograft''
Imperial College Press, London (2006). . Co-edited with Jean-Michel Dubernard, Earl Owen
''Artifial Organs''
Springer-Verlag
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London (2009). . .
''Living Related Transplantation''
Imperial College Press, London (2010). . Co-edited with Ruben Canelo and Vassilios Papalois
Imperial College Press, London (2011). . Co-edited with Franco Favretti, Bruno Dilemans and Gianni Segato
Book chapters
Whole Organ Pancreas Transplantation
In Nagy A. Habib and Ruben Canelo's ''Liver and Pancreatic Diseases Management''. Springer, Boston (2006).
Articles
"Pancreas transplantation"
''Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
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''. Vol. 80, No. 5 (1998) pp. 313–315.
"Recent developments and future prospects in pancreatic and islet transplantation"
''Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism''. Vol. 3, No. 1 (February 2001), pp. 9–15.
“What is happening with hand transplants?”
''The Lancet
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''. Vol. 357, Issue 9269 (26 May 2001), pp. 1711–1712. . Co-authored with Jean Michel Dubernard, Earl R Owen and Marco Lanzetta
"Pancreatic transplantation for patients with Type I diabetes"
''Journal of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association''. Vol. 4, No. 2 (2002), pp. 59–61.
“Functional results of the first human double-hand transplantation”.
Annals of surgery. Vol. 238, No. 1 (July 2003), pp. 128–136. . Co-authored with Dubernard, J. M., Petruzzo, P., Lanzetta, M., Parmentier, H., Martin, X., Dawahra, M., Owen, E.
"A Fast and Safe Living Donor “Finger-Assisted” Nephrectomy Technique: Results of 359 Cases"
'' Transplantation Proceedings'', Vol. 42, Issue 1, January–February 2010, pp. 165–170. Co-authoured with E. Aboutaleb, A. Syed, P.Rajagopal, P. Herbert, R. Canelo and V. Papalois,
"Renal Transplantation"
''British Medical Journal'' (2011). Vol. 343. , . Co-authored with P.T.R. Thiruchelvam, M. Willicombe, and D. Taube.
"Kidney Transplant in Third World Countries"
'' Experimental and Clinical Transplantation''. Vol. 14, Suppl. 3 (November 2016), pp. 19–20. Co-authored with E. Miner, D. Hakim, A. El Tayyar.
References
External links
Darryl John Kennedy - Air France pilot, Michel Bacos - A Time Remembered – Entebbe
A Time Remembered: A Father's Lullabye
Hakim: Clarinet piece (2015)
Schindler's List
Hakim: Clarinet piece (2016)
New World Symphony
Hakim: Clarinet piece (2016)
Finger Assisted Nephrectomy
- Hakim performing surgery (2016)
Prof Hakim Awards Prof Haberal Honorary Fellowship of the International Medical Sciences Academy
2018
A sculptural presentation by Prof Nadey Hakim at the Global Unity Dinner and Dance 2019
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Living people
Paris Descartes University alumni
University of Minnesota alumni
Harvard University staff
Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons
1958 births
Artists from Beirut
History of transplant surgery
British sculptors
Lebanese sculptors
Academics of Imperial College London