Nadey Hakim

Nadey S. Hakim was born in Britain, in 1958 into a Lebanese family. As a teenager, when in Lebanon, 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 of Cochin Port Royal Hospital Medical School and received his MD from Paris Descartes University in 1984. In 1988, he completed a fellowship in gastrointestinal surgery from the Mayo Clinic, and then returning to London to finish his thesis on intestinal transplantation and receive his PhD from University College London in 1991. and began the first pancreas transplant programme in South East England. Limb transplantation Hakim had hoped that the world's first hand transplantation would be performed in London. Instead, representing Britain, 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 Frenchman who had 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, 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, Yemen to attend the first International Yemeni Conference on Nephro-Urology in March 2003, during the Iraq War. 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, 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, 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, as part of the BP Portrait Awards. As adjunct professor of transplantation surgery at Imperial College London, 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. Other roles Hakim has been an advisor on transplantation issues to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence His private practice is in Harley Street. He has worked with several journals including editor-in-chief of International Surgery, and as editorial board member for Transplantation Proceedings and Graft, With Jean-Michel Dubernard, and Earl Owen, he co-edited the textbook Composite Tissue Allograft. It included an introduction by Sir Roy Calne. 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 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. • Roger Williams, • Queen Elizabeth II in 2013, • President Macron at the Élysée Palace. • Senior Selvanayagam (2019). • Donald Trump • Boris Johnson • Narendra Modi Having learnt to play the clarinet as a child, he continues to play and has recorded several CDs. Together, they also performed A Time Remembered, as a tribute to Air France pilot, Michel Bacos. ==Awards and honours==

In 1989, during his travelling scholarship to the Soviet, Hakim was elected a member of the Soviet Surgical Society. On 4 December 2008, at the World Congress of the ICS, In 2010, he was awarded the Bailiff Grand Cross Order of St John of Jerusalem. He became the 35th president of the ICS. In June 2017 he was appointed as president's Envoy of Imperial College London and he was also appointed vice-president of the International Medical Sciences Academy. In March 2018, Hakim was appointed as Visiting Professor of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade. At this same ceremony, the new book Surgery for Benign Oesophageal Disorders was officially promoted. In the same year, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the Beirut Arab University at its 59th anniversary. In 2019, he received a Doctor of Arts degree for his contribution to aesthetics from the University of Bolton. In the same year he received the Order of Saint Agatha from the Republic of San Marino. In 2021 he was awarded the Order of Friendship. ==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 (1994). . Co-edited with Michael G. Sarr • Transplantation Surgery. Springer Verlag, London (2001). . Co-edited with Gabriel Danovitch • Pancreas and Islet Transplantation. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2002). . Co-edited with Robert J. Stratta, Peter Friend and Alan Colman • Surgical Complications: Diagnosis and Treatment. Imperial College Press, London (2007). . Co-edited with Vassilios E. Papalois • Composite Tissue Allograft. Imperial College Press, London (2006). . Co-edited with Jean-Michel Dubernard, Earl Owen • Artificial Organs. Springer-Verlag London (2009). . . • Living Related Transplantation. Imperial College Press, London (2010). . Co-edited with Ruben Canelo and Vassilios Papalois • Bariatric Surgery. 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 • • • . • • • • • ==References==