Professor Nadey S. Hakim
World President, International College of Surgeons

Biography
Nadey S Hakim (KCSJ, MD, PhD, FRCS, FRCSI, FACS, FICS) is a General and Transplant Surgeon. He is the Surgical Director of the Transplant Unit at St Mary?s Hospital London. He has a particular interest and expertise in kidney and pancreas transplantation. He obtained his MD from Paris Rene Descartes University, he received his surgical training at Guy?s Hospital in London, PhD in small bowel transplantation from University College London. He completed a Gastrointestinal Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic and a Multiorgan Transplant Fellowship at the University of Minnesota. To date he has published over one hundred and twenty peer-reviewed papers and has written/edited 12 textbooks in the field of Surgery and Transplantation.

He has successfully started the first Pancreas Transplant Program in the SE of England. From the administrative point of view he is the Editor in Chief of International Surgery, a prestigious peer reviewed journal and on the Editorial Board of Transplant Proceedings, Graft, Experimental and Clinical Transplantation and of several other journals. He is a Member of the Kidney-Pancreas Committee of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTP), Past President of Transplantation Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was part of the Working Party to Review Organ Transplantation in the UK.He has represented Britain in the International team which has performed the world first arm Transplant and the world first double arm Transplant.He has given numerous presentations in the UK and throughout the world.

He has been awarded an Honorary Professorship of the University of Sao Paolo and has been a visiting Professor at several prestigious centers including Harvard University.

He has recently been elected President of the International College of Surgeons based in Chicago. Prior to his election he has served as First Vice President and European Federation Secretary of this College.