About Magdi Habib Yacoub Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, FRS (Arabic: مجدي حبيب يعقوب‎, born 16 November 1935 in Belbis, Egypt), is Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Imperial College London. He was involved in the first UK heart transplant in 1980, carried out the first UK live lobe lung transplant and went on to perform more transplants than any other surgeon in the world. A 1980 patient Derrick Morris, was Europe's longest surviving heart transplant recipient until his death in July 2005.