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Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub NPG P1128(16)

© Julia Fullerton-Batten / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Julia Fullerton-Batten

Born into a Coptic Christian family in Egypt. Yacoub studied at Cairo University, qualifying as a doctor (1957). Moving to Britain in 1962, he later became a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Harefield Hospital (1973). As a visiting professor, he was amongst a team that performed the first open heart surgery at the University of Nigeria (1974). Under his leadership, the Harefield Hospital transplant programme began in 1980, by the end of the decade and after over 1000 procedures being performed by his team, the hospital... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.