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Nizam Mamode
Born1962
United Kingdom
EducationSt Andrews University
Glasgow University
OccupationProfessor of transplantation surgery
Known for
  • Co-founding school in Kenya
  • Chairman of the British Medical Association's (BMA) junior doctor committee (2000) and later for consultants
  • Robotic kidney transplantation
  • Use of 3D printers to plan a transplant of a living-donor kidney from an adult to a child
  • UK's first robot assisted kidney transplant via keyhole surgery
  • Re-enacting King George VI's lung operation of 1951
Medical career
ProfessionSurgeon
FieldTransplantation
InstitutionsGuy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Sub-specialtiesKidney transplantation
ResearchAntibody incompatible transplantation

Nizam Mamode (born 1962) is a British professor of transplantation surgery. Until 2020 he was clinical lead of transplant surgery for adults and children at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and honorary consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He is best known for leading the operation that used 3D printers to plan a transplant of a living-donor kidney from a father into his two year old daughter in 2015. The following year he led the team that performed the United Kingdom's first robot assisted kidney transplant via keyhole surgery. In 2017 he performed one of the UK's first paired kidney transplants in a child.

After A-levels Mamode worked as a teacher in Nairobi, Kenya. There, he co-founded a school for children. He subsequently gained a place to study medicine in Scotland, completing his pre-clinical course at St Andrews University and then clinical years at Glasgow University, from where he graduated in 1987. In 1998 he was deputy chairman of the British Medical Association's (BMA) committee for newly qualified doctors, then chairman of its negotiating committee, and later elected deputy chairman of the BMA's Central Consultants and Specialists Committee.

In 2016 Mamode appeared in Stephen Daldry's 2016 Netflix series The Crown, playing the lead surgeon Sir Clement Price Thomas in a simulation of the 1951 lung operation on King George VI.

Early life and education

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Nizam Mamode was born in 1962 in Britain to a Mauritian father and English mother.[1][2] Following several rejections from medical schools and after his A-levels, he took a gap year and worked as a teacher in Nairobi, Kenya.[3][4] In January 1981, at the age of 18, with a local teacher he co-founded a school for children in the small village of Igoji in Meru County, Kenya.[3] The previous month he witnessed the effects of the 1980 Nairobi hotel bombing.[4] It prompted him to re-apply to medical schools and was accepted for a pre-clinical course at St Andrews University in Scotland, from where he moved to from Gravesend.[3] While studying at St Andrew's he continued to raise funds for his Kenyan school and individual sponsorships for its children.[3] He gained a bachelor's degree in 1984.[4][5] Mamode subsequently completed his clinical years at Glasgow University and graduated MB ChB in 1987.[2][4]

Early career

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In 1994 Mamode worked as a surgeon in Rwanda.[6] There, he saw the effects of small arms and as result signed up to the Million Faces petition which called for stricter international controls on arms.[6][a] In 1998 he was deputy chairman of the BMA's committee for newly qualified doctors, whilst working as a specialist registrar in vascular surgery at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.[8] In 2000 he was chairman of its negotiating committee and the doctors' chief negotiator for a new contract for recently qualified physicians.[9][10] In the same year he gained his MD from Glasgow,[11] and received his FRCS.[5] He moved to London in 2002.[12] In March of that year he was appointed consultant in transplant surgery,[1] and later that year was elected deputy chairman of the BMA's Central Consultants and Specialists Committee.[13][14] In 2004 Mamode spent time in Minnesota, USA, learning to use the da Vinci Surgical System.[12][15]

Between 2008 and 2011 Mamode was chairman of the chapter of surgeons, at the British Transplantation Society.[5][16] Other roles included being on the advisory board of the Confidential Reporting System in Surgery (CORESS), to promote safety in surgical practice.[17][b]

Later career

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In 2014 Mamode was appointed clinical lead of transplant surgery for adults and children at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) and honorary consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).[1] The following year he led the surgical team that used the world's first integration of 3D printing of an adult-sized, living-donor kidney from a father to plan a kidney transplant into his two year old daughter.[19][20] It allowed for his team to play around with the model with a view to how to close the abdomen.[21]

In September 2016 using a da Vinci robot under the guidance of Ahmedabad's professor of transplant surgery Pranjal R. Modi, Mamode led the team that performed the UK's first robot assisted kidney transplant via keyhole surgery.[22][23] The following year he performed one of the UK's first paired kidney transplants in a child.[24][25] He was one of 11 transplant surgeons employed by GSTT, and was one of five surgeons who carried out transplants in children at the Trust's Evelina Children's Hospital (ECH).[1] His research throughout his career in transplantion surgery has included blood group incompatible transplantation, laparoscopic retrieval of kidneys and long-term graft survival.[26] Later, Judge Murdin would describe him as having "an international reputation for paediatric transplantation" who "received referrals from across the UK and beyond".[1]

In May 2020 Mamode's honorary post at GOSH ended, and later that year he stepped down from his clinical lead role at GSTT.[1] His job there ended in March 2022.[1] Following a tribunal, a judgement in 2024 concluded that his "complaint of constructive unfair dismissal is well-founded and succeeds".[1][27]

From October 2022 to May 2023, Mamode worked on establishing a transplant programme in Mauritius.[28]

Mamode volunteered with Medical Aid for Palestinians in Gaza from mid-August to mid-September 2024. While working at Nasser Hospital, he treated victims of Israeli drone strikes and testified before the UK Parliament about the deliberate targeting of civilians, especially children. Mamode described regularly operating on children who had been shot by hovering drones while lying on the ground after bombings, highlighting the severe conditions faced by children and healthcare workers in Gaza.[29][30]

The Crown

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Following advice from surgeons Harold Ellis and Pankaj Chandak, Mamode appeared as Sir Clement Price Thomas, the lead surgeon, in Stephen Daldry's 2016 Netflix series The Crown, in which he and his team showed how King George VI's cancerous lung was removed at Buckingham Palace in 1951.[31][32]

Selected publications

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Articles

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Book

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Notes

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  1. ^ The Million Faces Campaign was a petiton to collect one million faces of people around the world who supported the Control Arms Campaign. It was organised by Amnesty International, IANSA and Oxfam.[7]
  2. ^ CORESS was established in 2005.[18]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Mr N Mamode v Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust" (PDF). GOV.UK. Archived from the original on 20 July 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  2. ^ a b Mullins, Andrew (4 October 1998). "Staff fight to cure racism in the NHS". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 July 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d "Founder's appeal for school in Kenya". St. Andrews Citizen. Fife. 7 May 1982. p. 2. Retrieved 10 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ a b c d "Prof. Nizam Mamode - A World leader in Robotics and Innovative Transplant Surgery". scrubbedin.podbean.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  5. ^ a b c "Nizam Mamode Curriculum Vitae". British Renal Society. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Annual report 2004" (PDF). Oxfam Canada: 9. 2004.
  7. ^ Stewart, Luke (26 April 2006). "First-hand experience of the destructive power of guns". Refugee Council. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  8. ^ "EU ruling could cut trainee doctor hours". The Scotsman. Midlothian. 18 November 1998. p. 2. Retrieved 10 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ Morant, Helen (3 June 2000). "Junior doctors accept new pay deal". British Medical Journal. 320 (7248): 1494. doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7248.1494. PMC 1118097. PMID 10834882.
  10. ^ "Junior doctors accept £200m+ deal to boost pay and cut hours". www.publicfinance.co.uk. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  11. ^ "University of Glasgow". The Scotsman. 2 December 2000. p. 15. Retrieved 10 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  12. ^ a b "Nizam Mamode, Professor, Consultant - eMedEvents". www.emedevents.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  13. ^ Batty, David (13 December 2002). "Doctors elect maverick as chief". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
  14. ^ Dyer, Owen (15 May 2004). "BMA settles in race discrimination cases". British Medical Journal. 328 (7449): 1154. doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7449.1154-d. ISSN 0959-8138. PMC 411131. PMID 15142900.
  15. ^ von Radowitz, John (10 August 2004). "Robotic to help carry out kidney transplantations". Irish Independent. p. 6. Retrieved 10 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  16. ^ Forde, Emma; Harte, Alys (24 March 2019). "Transplant service at 'breaking point'". BBC News. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  17. ^ "CORESS feedback". Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 94 (4): 283–285. May 2012. doi:10.1308/003588412X13171221591097. ISSN 0035-8843. PMC 3957521.
  18. ^ "CORESS: Confidential Reporting System in Surgery". British Association of Paediatric Surgeons. 15 November 2016. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  19. ^ Templeton, Sarah-Kate (24 January 2016). "Surgeons' 3D prints give Lucy a new life". The Times. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  20. ^ Templeton, Sarah-Kate (8 March 2016). "Fast fingered robots to aid kidney transplants". The Times. Archived from the original on 8 July 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  21. ^ Khamkar, Prachi; Kadam, Atul (2022). "1. Introduction and need for additive manufacturing in the medical industry". In Banga, Harish Kumar; Kumar, Rajesh; Kalra, Parveen; Belokar, Rajendra M. (eds.). Additive Manufacturing with Medical Applications. Boca Raton: CRC Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-032-11077-6.
  22. ^ "Transplant surgeons at Guy's Hospital perform a UK first". Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. 2016. Archived from the original on 9 July 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  23. ^ Barker, Alan (11 September 2017). "Put yourself in the patient's place". British Science Association. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  24. ^ "UK first pioneering kidney transplant at Evelina London". www.evelinalondon.nhs.uk. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  25. ^ Bell, Jamie (17 October 2022). "New guideline supports kidney exchange programmes and "integrated approach" in sensitised transplant patients". Renal Interventions. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  26. ^ Carolan, Lorraine (12 January 2012). "What's new in paediatric transplantation?". Medical Update Online. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  27. ^ Clover, Ben (8 July 2024). "Trust 'forced out' senior doctor who raised safety concerns". Health Service Journal. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024. A prestigious teaching hospital constructively dismissed the head of its transplant unit after he raised safety concerns about Great Ormond Street Hospital, a tribunal heard.
  28. ^ "8th Cardiff Transplant Symposium". cardifftransplant.org. Archived from the original on 10 July 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  29. ^ "IDC Chair responds to shocking evidence on Gaza healthcare". www.parliament.uk. Archived from the original on 12 November 2024. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  30. ^ "Gaza surgeon describes drones targeting children". BBC News. 13 November 2024. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
  31. ^ "Surgical team from Guy's star in Netflix's new Royal show". Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. 7 November 2016. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  32. ^ Sherman, Jill; Low, Valentine (14 July 2024). "Netflix cuts no corners with £30,000 dress". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024.

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