E58: Prof. Nizam Mamode - A World leader in Robotics and Innovative Transplant Surgery

In this week’s episode we are joined by Prof. Nizam Mamode, a world leading transplant surgeon who shares his journey from the very beginning. 

We delve into being rejected from medical school to traveling abroad for a gap year as a teacher. We come to learn how one unfortunate night after a bomb blast in Kenya, Nairobi killed and injured so many people cemented his desire and drive to become a doctor as he helped those that were injured. Prof. Mamode discusses his training pathway to becoming a transplant surgeon and performing the UK’s first ever Robotic Kidney Transplant surgery. We discuss the importance of pursuing a speciality you truly love and how he manages a healthy work-life balance. We discuss the advances of transplant surgery alongside the difficulties the specialty has faced since its inception touching on what they future may hold. 

Mr Nizam Mamode is a Professor of Transplant Surgery with a special interest in antibody incompatible transplantation, living donors and robotic transplantation. His team have the largest programme in Europe, with around 50 paediatric transplants a year. He set up the only paediatric antibody incompatible transplantation programme and laparoscopic living donor programme, which has now carried out over 1,500 donor nephrectomies.

Prof. Mamode performed the UK’s first robotic transplant. He has published over 70 papers, one book and three book chapters on transplantation. Mr Mamode is on the editorial board for the journal ‘Transplantation’ as well as an expert reviewer for the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation and a reviewer for the American Journal of Transplantation, Transplant International and Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation.  

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