page_title: Nadey Hakim
section_title: Art and music
hierarchical_section_title: Nadey Hakim / Art and music
caption_attribution_description: English: Replica of Michelangelo's David, by Nadey Hakim - Monterchi, Italy 2016
context_page_description: Nadey S. Hakim FRCS FRCSI FACS FASMBS, is a British-Lebanese professor of transplantation surgery at Imperial College London, general surgeon, bariatric surgeon, writer, musician and sculptor, best known for kidney and pancreas transplantations, and being part of the surgical team that performed the world's first hand transplantation in 1998 and then the double arm transplantation in 2000. A number of his sculptures are on display around the world, including President Macron at the Élysée Palace in Paris, Pope Francis at the Vatican, Michelangelos David in the Madonna del Parto Museum collection, and Kim Jong-un at the Pyongyang Museum in North Korea.
  After graduating in medicine from Paris Descartes University and completing his surgical training and Fellowships from Guy's Hospital in London, the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota in the States, the Soviet Union and University College London, he became appointed to St Mary's Hospital where in 1995, he performed London's first pancreas transplantation.
context_section_description: He is a portrait sculptor and in 2016 was winner of the Baron's Prize, Medical Art Society. Hakims list of busts include:
  Michelangelo Buonarroti's David which became included in the Madonna del Parto Museum collection.
  Transplant physician, Roger Williams,
  Queen Elizabeth II in 2013,
  Prime Minister David Cameron in 2014, unveiled at the Carlton Club in London,
  Theresa May at Downing Street.
  President Macron at the Élysée Palace.
  Pope Francis in 2017, at the Vatican.
  Kim Jong-un in 2018, at the Pyongyang Museum in North Korea. Hakim was subsequently asked to create Moon Jae-in.
  Senior Selvanayagam in 2019.
  Having learnt to play the clarinet as a child, he continues to play and has recorded a number of CDs. Some pieces have been conducted and performed with composer and multi-instrumentalist, Darryl John Kennedy. The Wisconsin television programme “Look-In”, featured them both performing the hymn Jerusalem, on a CD entitled A Promise for Peace and dedicated to the children of Lebanon. Together, they also performed A Time Remembered, as a tribute to Air France pilot, Michel Bacos.
caption: Replica of Michelangelo's David, Nadey Hakim - Monterchi, Italy (2016)
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