1. Nadey Hakim is a writer, musician and sculptor, 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.
19 Facts About Nadey Hakim
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Nadey Hakim 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 incision.
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Nadey S Hakim was born in Britain, in 1958 into a Lebanese family.
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Nadey Hakim subsequently began his surgical training at Guy's Hospital, London.
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Nadey Hakim had hoped that the world's first hand transplantation would be performed in London.
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Nadey Hakim revealed in an interview that one of the surgeons who inspired Hakim and whom he met, was the American Joseph Murray, who performed the first successful kidney transplantation in 1954, an operation involving two identical twins and the donor being live.
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Nadey Hakim has been an advisor on transplantation issues to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and has been an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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Nadey Hakim is a general surgeon at The Cleveland Clinic London.
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Nadey Hakim has worked with several journals including editor-in-chief of International Surgery, and as editorial board member for Transplantation Proceedings and Graft, and for the International Journal of Organ Transplantation Medicine.
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Nadey Hakim co-edited the book Surgical Complications: Diagnosis and Treatment, which was reviewed by Sir Harold Ellis.
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Nadey Hakim is a supporter of the Conservative party 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.
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Nadey Hakim has been involved in collaborations tackling disease in Africa.
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Nadey Hakim is a portrait sculptor and in 2016 was winner of the Baron's Prize, Medical Art Society.
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In 1989, during his travelling scholarship to the Soviet, Nadey Hakim was elected a member of the Soviet Surgical Society.
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Nadey Hakim has been awarded honorary professorships from the universities of Lyon, Peru, Ankara and Sao Paulo, and has been a visiting professor to several universities including Harvard University 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, Nadey Hakim was appointed the first Max Thorek Professor of Surgery, an endowed chair of surgery set up in the name of Max Thorek who founded the ICS.
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Nadey Hakim has been president of the section of transplantation of the Royal Society of Medicine and between 2014 and 2016 was the Society's vice president.
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Nadey Hakim was elected vice president of Conservative Health April 2016.
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In March 2018, Nadey Hakim was appointed as Visiting Professor of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade.