year. Honours and awards 1988: Bradshaw Lecture, Royal College of Physicians. It was held in Sheffield. 1998: Texas Heart Institute Ray C. Fish Award for Scientific Achievement in Cardiovascular Disease. 1998: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society. 1999: Lifetime outstanding achievement award in recognition of contribution to medicine, Secretary of State for Health (UK). 2003: Golden Hippocrates International Award for Excellence in Cardiac Surgery (Moscow). WHO Prize for Humanitarian Services. 2004: International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Lifetime Achievement Award, at the 24th annual meeting in San Francisco. 2006: European Society of Cardiology Gold Medal. 2007: Pride of Britain Award. 2007: Honorary citizenships of the city of Bergamo, Italy 2007: Medal of Merit, President, International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences. 2011: Order of the Nile for science and humanity. 2012: American College of Cardiology Legend of Cardiovascular Medicine. 2015: Lister Medal for contributions to surgical science, presented by Clare Marx, President of the Royal College of Surgeons. 2019: Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor Achievement Award (KAHAA). Yacoub was knighted in the 1992 New Year Honours and awarded the Order of Merit in the 2014 New Year Honours. Personal and family He is married to Marianne and they have three children and a number of grandchildren. Yacoub enjoys swimming, listening to classical music and growing orchids. Selected publications Books Annual of Cardiac Surgery. Current Science (1994). . J. Pepper (Ed) Cardiac Valve Allografts : Science and Practice. Steinkopff-Verlag Heidelberg (1997). . With A. C. Yankah and R. Hetzer Articles "Vagotomy through mediastinoscopy for pulmonary osteoarthropathy. British Journal of Diseases of the Chest. Vol. 60, Issue 3 (July 1966), p. 144-147. , . "Homograft replacement of the aortic valve. A critical review". Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases. Vol. 11, Issue 4 (January 1969), pp. 275–293. , . With Donald Ross "Two-stage operation for anatomical correction of transposition of the great arteries with intact interventricular septum". The Lancet. Vol. 1, Issue 8025 (June 1977), pp. 1275–8. , . Co-authored with R. Radley-Smith and R. Maclaurin. "Fourteen-year experience with homovital homografts for aortic valve replacement". The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. Vol. 110, Issue 1 (July 1995), pp. 186–194. Yacoub et al "Two Hearts that Beat as One". Circulation. Vol. 92, Issue 2 (15 July 1995), pp. 156–157. . "An evaluation of the Ross operation in adults". Journal of Heart Valve Disease. Vol. 15, No. 4 (July 2006), pp. 531–9. . Yacoub et al. "Is