Nadey Hakim

Nadey S. Hakim FASMBS (born 9 April 1958), is a British-Lebanese professor of transplantation surgery at Imperial College London and general surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic London. He is also 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.

Several of his sculptures are on display around the world, including President Macron at the Élysée Palace in Paris, Pope Francis at the Vatican, Michelangelo's David in the Madonna del Parto Museum collection, and Kim Jong-un at the Pyongyang Museum in North Korea.

After graduating in medicine from Paris Descartes University now called Université Paris Cité and completing his surgical training and Fellowships from Guy's Hospital in London, the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota in the States, the Soviet Union and University College London, he became appointed to St Mary's Hospital where in 1995, he performed London's first pancreas transplantation. He 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. The procedure was depicted in Henry Ward's 2010 painting The 'Finger-Assisted' Nephrectomy of Professor Nadey Hakim''', commissioned to raise awareness of legal organ donations. Subsequently, in 2013, he performed the first kidney transplantation in Abuja, Nigeria.

Following an 'unfair' dismissal by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in 2015, he was reinstated in 2016 after a tribunal. In the same year, he received the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur at a ceremony held at the French Embassy in London. The following year, Imperial appointed him as their president's envoy. Between 2018 and 2019, he became visiting professor of surgery at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, and received an Honorary Doctorate from the Beirut Arab University and a Doctor of Arts degree from the University of Bolton.

His role in writing and editing have included producing over 23 textbooks and 150 peer-reviewed papers, being editor-in-chief of the International Surgery and an editorial board member for the journals Transplantation Proceedings and Graft. In his role in global health issues, he has been involved in collaborations tackling disease in Africa and has raised the issue of the risks of unregulated trade in organ donation.

As a musician, he plays the clarinet and his performances include the hymn 'Jerusalem', dedicated to the children of Lebanon, and in A Time Remembered as a tribute to Air France pilot, Michel Bacos.

Early life and education 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."

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).

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