Kefah Mokbel
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Professor Kefah Mokbel MBBS MS FRCS |
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| Born | 1965 Syria |
| Education | Concord College |
| Alma mater | University of London |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
Professor Kefah Mokbel FRCS is the lead breast surgeon at the London Breast Institute of the Princess Grace Hospital, Professor (Honorary) of Breast Cancer Surgery at The Brunel Institute of Cancer Genetics and Pharmacogenomics (London, UK) and the founder and current president of Breast Cancer Hope; a UK-based charity "dedicated to improving the quantity and quality of life in women diagnosed with breast cancer". He was appointed as a substantive consultant breast surgeon at St. George's Hospital NHS trust in February 2001. He resigned from the NHS in November 2010 to become an honorary consultant at St. George's Hospital and a full-time consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon and the lead breast surgeon at the Princess Grace Hospital.
He was named in Tatler magazine's Best Doctors Guide as one of the featured "Top Breast Surgeons" in 2006, 2007 and 2013. In November 2010 he was named in the Times magazine's list of Britain's Top Doctors.
Kefah Mokbel was born in 1965 in the currently occupied Golan Heights in Syria. At the end of junior high school, he was awarded a national scholarship after he passed the Brevet des collèges diploma with the highest score (98%) in Syria (1980). In 1983 he was awarded a scholarship to study medicine in Great Britain having achieved 100% score (in all subjects) in the Baccalaureate examination for the first time in the history of Syria. The award was presented to him by the Syrian President: late Hafiz Asad. Kefah Mokbel learned English in Eastbourne and then studied A levels in a boarding school (Concord College) in Shrewsbury and achieved 3 A grades and distinction in the special papers within one year (1985). He graduated (MB, BS) from the University of London in 1990. Kefah was a phenomenal self learner (attended lectures only occasionally) and was awarded several prestigious prizes during his undergraduate medical training and achieved the highest score in General Medicine (MB,BS finals) at The London Hospital Medical College. He qualified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS, England) in 1994. He was granted the Master of Surgery degree in 2000 by The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine for his research in the field of molecular biology of breast cancer.
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