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Magdi Yacoub

Egyptian retired professor and surgeon (born 1935)

Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub (Arabic: مجدى حبيب يعقوب[ˈmæɡdiħæˈbiːbjæʕˈʔuːb]; born 16 November 1935) is an Egyptian-British retired professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Imperial College London, best known for his early work in repairing heart valves with surgeon Donald Ross, adapting the Ross procedure, where the diseased aortic valve is replaced with the person's own pulmonary valve, devising the arterial switch operation (ASO) in transposition of the great arteries, and establishing the heart transplantation centre at Harefield Hospital in 1980 with a heart transplant for Derrick Morris, who at the time of his death was Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant recipient. Yacoub subsequently performed the UK's first combined heart and lung transplant in 1983.

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. He is the founding editor of the journal Disease Models &

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She is the first female Professor of Cardiac Surgery appointed in the UK and Europe. She was appointed as Consultant Cardiac Surgeon and Senior Lecturer in 2001 at St. George’s Hospital, University of London. She was appointed Professor of Cardiac Surgery at University of London in 2007. Her major interests in the field of clinical cardiac surgery include: surgery of the aorta, including aneurysms, especially major and major complex cases (Marfan), aortic valve surgery, minimally invasive aortic valve procedure, beating heart surgery, and cardiac surgery in pregnant patients. She regularly performs coronary artery bypass graft surgery using minimally invasive techniques. She has contributed to advances in protecting neurocognition and has been instrumental in developing minimally invasive aortic surgery and major aortic surgery.

Marjan Jahangiri graduated in medicine from University College Hospital, London. Subsequently, she completed her general surgical training at University College London and affiliated hospitals. She embarked on a career in Cardiothoracic Surgery. She

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Aldo R. Castañeda, one of the most eminent cardiac surgeons of all time, passed away on 30^th April 2021. In many nooks and corners of the world one can find surgeons dealing with congenital heart defects employing methods developed over decades by this brilliant surgeon. It has been calculated that he educated and professionally shaped over 100 paediatric cardiac surgeons; of this number, almost one-half of the physicians head and supervise important paediatric cardiac surgery centres worldwide. The group of his disciples and closest collaborators included William I. Norwood, the preceptor of many of us, our master and tutor, who also passed away not long ago, at the end of 2020.

Aldo R. Castañeda was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1930; his father was a citizen of Guatemala, and his mother was from Nicaragua. At the age of 5, he and his parents came to live in Munich, Germany. It was there that he commenced his early schooling, and it was there where he – a young boy then – lived through the beginnings of World War II. He was 14 years old when, hidden in the cellar, he survived the