Geiss, Klay Buckley and Randall S | He has honorary degrees from , Pakistan and the University of Siena, Italy |
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Charities [ ] In 1995, Yacoub founded the charity Of Ahmed Sherif "Chain of Hope", through which he continued to operate on children, and through which the provision of heart surgery for correctable heart defects are made possible in areas without specialist cardiac surgery units | , On This Day, BBC News, 6 December 1983 , retrieved 19 September 2014• His father was a surgeon, who later worked in |
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In 2006 he led a complex operation which required removing a transplant heart from a person whose own heart had recovered | Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine: 28 — via Queen Mary, University of London |
The original heart had not been removed during transplant surgery nearly a decade earlier, in the hope it might recover.
27Dunning, Joel 3 January 2012 | Following retirement from the NHS , he continued to operate on children through his charity, Chain of Hope |
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From 1986 to 2006, he held the position of British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine | Arterial Switch [ ] Arterial switch operation In 1977, he devised a two-stage approach for an ASO in older people with with an intact IVS |
Later, his application for a job at the was turned down.