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Yahya Awang
Tan Sri Dato' Dr. Yahya bin Awang (born 7 September 1950) is a Malaysian cardiothoracic surgeon; born to the former state governor (Yang di-Pertua Negeri) of Pulau Pinang from 1981 to 1989, Awang Hassan and Khadijah Abdul Rahman, sister of Ismail Abdul Rahman, the 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia. He performed two coronary artery bypass graft surgeries for Mahathir Mohamad, first in 1989 and another in 2007. He went on to help found and headed the National Heart Institute of Malaysia (Institut Jantung Negara) (IJN) in 1992 and in 1997 he performed the first heart transplantation in Malaysia there.
Honours and awards
Honours of Malaysia
Awards
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