Nizam Mamode | |
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Born | 1962 United Kingdom |
Education | St Andrews University Glasgow University |
Occupation | Professor of transplantation surgery |
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Medical career | |
Profession | Surgeon |
Field | Transplantation |
Institutions | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Great Ormond Street Hospital |
Sub-specialties | Kidney transplantation |
Research | Antibody 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.