Magdi Yacoub, Egyptian-English surgeon and academic

Magdi Yacoub

Egyptian retired professor and surgeon (born 1935)

Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub 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…