Nadey Hakim (GB)

Professor Fadi Issa sits down with Professor Nadey Hakim — transplant surgeon and President-Elect of The Transplantation Society — on the career that took him from a childhood fascination with surgery to building transplant programmes across Yemen, Sudan, Nigeria, and Ghana. Professor Hakim explains why he calls transplantation "the most optimistic specialty," why training local surgeons matters more than performing operations, why he'd prioritise access in low- and middle-income countries over robotic technology, and what he tells trainees who want a career that lasts. Read the article in Transplantation Journal.