Name Nadey Hakim | ||
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Education Paris Descartes University, University College London | ||
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Nadey S. Hakim is a British-Lebanese transplant surgeon and author. With over 30 years as a surgeon, Hakim has performed over 2,000 transplants. He was part of the team of surgeons that performed the world's first hand transplant in France.
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- Education
- Career
- Personal life
- Selected works
- References
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Education
Hakim received his MD from Paris Descartes University in 1984. He did his surgical training at Guy's Hospital, and received his PhD in small bowel transplantation from University College London. His Gastrointestinal Fellowship was at the Mayo Clinic and his Multi-organ Transplant Fellowship was at the University of Minnesota.
Career
Hakim began the first Pancreas Transplant Program in South East England.
In 1995, Hakim performed the first pancreas transplant in London at St Mary's Hospital.
The world's first hand transplant was performed in September 1998 by a team of surgeons including Hakim, who then worked for St Mary's Hospital, London. The operation, done in Lyon, France, took 14 hours. The patient, Clint Hallam, failed to follow aftercare directions and later asked that the hand be removed. Hakim amputated the hand in February 2001 in London. Hakim also took part in the first double arm transplant.
He was awarded Honorary Professorships from Lyon University (2005), Ricardo Palma University, Başkent University, University of São Paulo (2007) and was visiting professor at several institutions worldwide including Harvard University and the Cleveland Clinic. Hakim was also appointed the first recipient of the Max Thorek Professorship of Surgery. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Transplantation Surgery at Imperial College London.
Hakim was surgical director of the West London Renal and Transplant Centre at Hammersmith Hospital. There, he pioneered a kidney transplant technique using a record breaking 2.5 cm cut.
Hakim scheduled a kidney transplant at the Cromwell Hospital, a private hospital, at the same time as a woman needing a kidney and pancreas transplant at the NHS Hammersmith Hospital on October 18, 2013. After his methods were called into question by surgeon Jeremy Crane after Hakim delayed the NHS patient by over 15 hours, he was suspended in September 2014. Hakim was dismissed from his post at Hammersmith Hospital in February 2015. After a week-long trial, Judge Sarah Goodman ruled in Hakim's favor against Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, deciding that he had been unfairly dismissed because Imperial did not investigate the incident properly. At the Remedy Trial, Imperial College Healthcare was ordered to reinstate Hakim and to pay over £100,000 in compensation for loss of income. Due to Hakim's potential risk to patients, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust does not allow Hakim access to NHS patients. Hakim performed the first kidney transplant at the Garki Hospital in Abuja in November 2013.
Hakim runs a private practice in Harley Street. Additionally, he is an advisor on transplant issues to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Hakim has edited 23 surgical textbooks and served as the 35th World President of the International College of Surgeons. He was awarded the Bailiff Grand Cross Order of St John of Jerusalem in 2010. Hakim is vice president of the Royal Society of Medicine. In January 2016, President Francois Hollande appointed Professor Hakim to the rank of Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. He was elected Vice President of Conservative Health April 2016. Hakim was appointed Vice-President of the International Medical Sciences Academy. In June 2017 Hakim was appointed as President's Envoy of Imperial College London.
Personal life
Hakim has four children. Plays the clarinet and records his music. Portrait sculptor and winner of the Baron's Prize, Medical Art Society 2016. In addition, Hakim reproduced Michelangelo Buonarroti’s David which is part of the Madonna del Parto Museum collection; in 2013 made a bust of Queen Elizabeth II; in 2014 unveiled a bronze bust he sculpted of Prime Minister David Cameron at the Carlton Club in London. The sculpture had been sold at an auction to Alexander Temerko, a British-Ukrainian businessman, for £90,000, which was donated to the Carlton Club.
He has also created a bust of the world renowned Greek composer and multi-instrumentalist Vangelis , after having met him at a function in London sometime during 2016; . Vangelis is said to have been very surprised that Hakim should want to to this, but was delighted to accept the end result.