What is Magdi Yacoub?
[[File:Magdi Yacoub (cropped).JPG|right|200px]] '''Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OM|FRS}} ({{lang-ar|د/مجدى حبيب يعقوب}} {{IPA-arz|ˈmæɡdi ħæˈbiːb jæʕˈʔuːb|}}) (born 16 November 1935), is an Egyptian-British surgeon and cardiologist. He was a professor of [[cardiothoracic surgery]] at [[Imperial College London]]. Yacoub is best known for his early work in [[heart valve repair|repairing]] [[heart valves]] and for helping create the [[Ross procedure]]. He performed the UK's first combined [[heart]] and [[lung]] [[Transplant (surgery)|transplant]] in 1983. From 1986 to 2006, he held the position of [[British Heart Foundation]] Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the [[Imperial College School of Medicine|National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine]]. He is the founding editor of the journal ''[[Disease Models & Mechanisms]]''.<ref name=MYCV>Yacoub, Magdi. [https://www.uc.pt/fmuc/DocumentosHomepage/2013/Marco/Magdi Curriculum Vitae: Magdi Yacoub] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515115910/https://www.uc.pt/fmuc/DocumentosHomepage/2013/Marco/Magdi |date=2021-05-15 }}.</ref> He was born in [[Bilbeis]], [[Sharqia Governorate|El Sharqia]], [[Egypt]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Yacoub, Madgdi}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Egyptian scientists]] [[Category:Academics of Imperial College London]] {{bio-stub}} [[Category:British surgeons]]