Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist Dr. Phillip Habib is Board Certified in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology and Cardiovascular Disease. He is part of Texas Transplant Institutes Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant program at Methodist Heart Hospital. Dr. Habib grew up spending time in an echocardiography lab with his father, an interventional cardiologist, feeding him chocolate. He scrubbed in to watch his first bypass surgery when he was in the eighth grade. It’s no wonder, then, that Dr. Habib chose to pursue a career in cardiology. “I fell in love with cardiac physiology and pathophysiology,” he says. But, unlike his father, it was the field of advanced heart failure and cardiac transplant that would become his passion. Dr. Habib graduated magna cum laude from the BaccMed program at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio. He completed his medical degree at Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, Ohio. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and a fellowship in echocardiography at University of Pittsburgh-Cardiovascular Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he also served as an attending hospitalist in the Department of Medicine at UPMC-Presbyterian and clinical instructor at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. Dr. Habib completed a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at the University of Florida-Jacksonville, in Jacksonville, Florida and a fellowship in advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville. Prior to joining Texas Transplant Institute, Dr. Habib served as the medical director for cardiac rehabilitation and for the Center for Advanced Heart Therapies, Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Support and Pulmonary Hypertension at Delray Medical Center in Delray Beach, Florida. He also served as affiliate assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. He is a member of the American Heart Association and the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation.