His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Saturday honoured cardiac surgeon Dr Hani Najm with the primary “Great Arab Minds” award in drugs.
Dr. Najm, who hails from Saudi Arabia, has been awarded for his “outstanding contribution and pioneering innovations in the field of heart surgery for children and adults”.
He has carried out greater than 10,000 coronary heart operations on sufferers with advanced coronary heart circumstances with excellent outcomes.
Taking to his official Twitter deal with, Sheikh Mohammed congratulated Dr. Najm of Cleveland Clinic Hospital within the United States and stated the award goals to have a good time Arab scientists, describing it because the “Arab Nobel” prize.
أطلقنا قبل عام مبادرة “نوابغ العرب” .. بهدف تكريم العلماء العرب .. والاحتفاء بالعقول العربية .. وتحفيز المبدعين العرب .. في قطاعات كالطب والهندسة والاقتصاد والأدب والفنون وغيرها .. فكما يحتفى العالم بالعلماء في جائزة نوبل نحتفي بالعلماء العرب في هذه الجائزة .. لتكون نوبل العرب..… pic.twitter.com/nLWjponqXz
— HH Sheikh Mohammed (@HHShkMohd) November 25, 2023
A key spotlight of Dr. Najm’s work is the event of a step by step self-expanding coronary heart “valve” for youngsters, sparing them the necessity for repeated surgical procedure.
He can also be recognised for growing a novel surgical method termed the “ventricular switch” to restore one of the advanced congenital coronary heart circumstances in kids.
Dr. Najm was the lead coronary heart surgeon in a big workforce that carried out a uncommon and complicated life-saving surgical procedure to take away a coronary heart tumor in a 26-week-old fetus.
The Great Arab Minds initiative was launched in 2022 to seek for distinctive Arab abilities in varied fields.
