What is Dr Ahmed Habib's specialty?

Dr Ahmed Habib is a consultant specialising in Cardiothoracic Surgery, with extensive experience in assessing and treating patients within this field.

Which conditions and treatments does Dr Ahmed Habib specialise in?

Dr Ahmed Habib is a cardiothoracic Surgeon who provides assessment and treatment for Hyperhidrosis, Robotic surgery, Pneumothorax, Lung cancer, Pectus excavatum and Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). During your consultation, you will be informed of the most suitable options following a personalised evaluation.

How many years of experience does Dr Ahmed Habib have?

Dr Ahmed Habib has 18 years of professional experience as a consultant cardiothoracic Surgeon, providing specialist assessment and treatment in this medical field.

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Patients give a rating of 4.9 out of 5 to Dr Ahmed Habib, a score considered excellent. This average is based on 20 verified patient reviews, reflecting the experience of those who have attended an appointment.

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Where does Dr Ahmed Habib practise?

Dr Ahmed Habib practices in the following locations: Wolverhampton at Wolverhampton Road Birmingham at Mindelsohn Way In-person consultations are available at these locations as a Cardiothoracic Surgery.

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What languages does Dr Ahmed Habib speak?

Dr Ahmed Habib is a cardiothoracic Surgeon who offers consultations in English and ِArabic.

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Dr Ahmed Habib

GMC: 7022019

4.920reviewsReview

Expert in:

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Professional statement

Dr Ahmed Habib is a leading consultant thoracic surgeon based in Wolverhampton who specialises in robotic chest surgery, collapsed lung surgery and hyperhidrosis, alongside pectus excavatum, lung cancer and myasthenia gravis surgery. He privately practices at New Cross Hospital Private Patients facility and his NHS base is Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust.

Dr Habib, who established the first robotic thoracic centre in the West Midlands in 2019, is highly qualified. He has been awarded an MBBCh, an MSc in General Surgery and an MD, alongside an MRCS and an FRCS. He went on to higher training as a clinical fellow in Cairo and at various NHS trusts in London, Birmingham and Hull.

Dr Habib is also renowned in clinical education for his speciality. Among his vast educational experience, he is the post graduate training and educational supervisor at New Cross Hospital, a mock examiner at West Midlands Deanery for thoracic surgery and a guest lecturer for Nottingham FRCS course. He also lectures for CESR applications (EDAI), is an educational supervisor for foundation doctors and was an undergraduate tutor at Hull York Medical School (HYMS) from 2016 to 2018.

Dr Habib is respected as a researcher, and he's currently the primary investigator for RAMON and UKLVRS. His award-winning work has been presented both nationally and internationally, including a prize-winning worldwide webinar. Furthermore he has been the Boards representative for thoracic surgery for the SCTS at the New Cross Hospital since 2018.

His research has also been published in various peer reviewed journals while he is a member of various professional organisations including the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery of Great Britain and Ireland, European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons.

Clinics

New Cross Hospital (Private Patients)
Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton Road, WV10 0QP
Medical insurances accepted
Bupa
AXA
AVIVA
Cigna
WPA
Simply Health
I'm paying for myself
Allianz

Credentials

Professional experience

18 years of experience
Consultant thoracic surgeon, New Cross Hospital, Private Patients (2018 - present)
Consultant thoracic surgeon, Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust (2018 - present)

Subspecialties

Myasthenia gravis surgery
Endobronchial (airway) procedures
Chest wall reconstruction
Lung biopsy
Tracheal reconstruction
Thymectomy (and myasthenia)
Sleeve resection
Pneumonectomy
Pleural biopsy
Pectus surgery and brace
Metastasectomy
Lung volume reduction surgery
Lung wedge
Lobectomy and segmentectomy
Hyperhidrosis (decortication)
Collapsed lung
Chest wall surgery

Professional memberships

Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery of Great Britain and Ireland
European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons
MRCS, Royal College of Surgeons

Education

FRCS (CTh-England) (2015)
MD (Cairo, Egypt) (2013)
MRCS (Intercollegiate) (2007)
MSc General Surgery (Cairo, Egypt) (2004)
MBBCh, Ain Shams University (Cairo, Egypt) (2000)

Teaching posts

Davinci training, Simmulor, Cadaveric courses (TR200 and 400), Refresher course following COVID and In house training performed in New cross, Oxford, London (UK) and Strasbourg (France)-IRMAC (2019, 2020 and 2021)
Post graduate tutor, Educational Supervisor for foundation year doctors, Birmingham University (2020 to present)
CESR Supervisor, Aid Middle grades in preparation for CESR applications, Ireland (2020)
FRCS thoracic Teaching for New cross middle grades, Teaching relevant topics for preparation for the exit exams, New Cross Hospital, (Aug 2018 to present biannually)
Training Undergraduates on Surgical Emergencies, HYMS 5th National Undergraduate Surgical Conference, York (20 Jan, 2018)
Local CALS course, Faculty on a locally organised training for emergency reopening on the ITU for cardiac tamponaded, Castle Hill Hospital (10 Nov, 2017)
Formal Tutor for Hull and Yorkshire Medical School (HYMS), Providing clinical teaching and OSCE to Year 1 and 3 medical students. CAT assessments. Weekly clinical tuition for Physician assistants, Castle Hill Hospital (1 Dec, 2016)
Educator Development Programme Certificate of attendance, Involves answering medical school exams to validate the level of exam difficulty for undergraduates, Hull Royal Infirmary (3 Apr, 2014)
Teaching in the Yorkshire deanery sessions for FRCS Trainees, Castle Hill Hospital, Esophageal Manometry and pH monitoring (7 November 2013 and 26 February 2015)
Teaching in the Yorkshire deanery sessions for FRCS Trainees, Castle Hill Hospital, Pulmonary Function Testing (5 February 2015)
Teaching in the Yorkshire deanery sessions for FRCS Trainees, Castle Hill Hospital, Anatomy and Physiology of the Aortic Valve (22 February 2014)
Teaching in the Yorkshire deanery sessions for FRCS Trainees, Castle Hill Hospital, On Pump vs off Pump CABG (22 Nov, 2013)

Positions in organisations

Primary Investigator for RAMON (Radical Management of Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer), New Cross Hospital (May 2022)
Primary Investigator for UKLVRS (UK Lung Volume Reduction Surgery), New Cross Hospital (2018 - present)
Boards Representative for Thoracic Surgery (New Cross Hospital) for the SCTS (2018 to date)

Publications and conferences

Author, Book chapter 'Surgical management of COPD' (2016)
Comparison of effectiveness of agents commonly used for treatment of pulmonary artery hypertension, Hull and East Yorkshire Medical School (October 2016)
MD in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dissertation: “Diagnosis of mesothelioma: pleural aspiration cytology versus VATS pleural biopsy”, Ain-Shams University, Egypt (May 2013)
MSc in General Surgery. Dissertation: “Thoracic Trauma”, Ain-Shams University, Egypt (November 2004)
“Surgical Management for Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease”, Ahmed M. Habib, Sherief Mansour and Mahmoud Loubani. SM Group.Oct 2016. Chapter provided for SM Group open access series on ‘Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease’:978-1-944685-06-5.
“Triplegic stroke following air embolism from bronchogenic cyst secondary to barotraumas”. Saifullah Mohamed, Akshay J. Patel, Ahmed El-Zeki, Ahmed Oliemy, Ahmed Habib. J.athoracsur.2021.03.030. doi:10.1016.
“Coronary artery bypass vs percutaneous coronary intervention in under 50s”.Shafi AMA, Dhanji AAA, Habib AM, Kennon SRO, Awad WI.; J Card Surg. 2020 Feb. doi: 10.1111/jocs.14370. Epub 2019 Dec 5.PMID: 31803987.
“Changing Clinical Profiles and In-hospital outcomes of OctogenariansUndergoing Cardiac Surgery Over 18 Years: A Single Centre Experience”. Ahmed M. Habib, Azar Hussain; Martin Jarvis; Michael E Cowen; Mubarak A Chaudhry; Mahmoud Loubani; Alex Cale; Dumbor L Ngaage Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg., 2018 Sept.
“Post-Operative Atrial Fibrillation: Reduction of Incidence in Thoracoscopic versus Open Lobectomy for Lung Cancer”. Zaheer Ahmad Tahir, Azar Hussein, Mohammed Khalil, Syed Qadri, Ahmed Habib, Mubarak Chaudhry and Mahmoud Loubani. Clinics in Surgery, Feb 2018.
“Case Report: Single pulmonary hilar lymph node metastasis presenting colorectal cancer”. Ahmed Habib, Xenophon Kassianides, Samuel Chan, Mahmoud Loubani and Syed Qadri. Case report in surgery. (Dec 2017)
“Good’s syndrome case report and review of literature: Is Thymectomy the solution?”, Ahmed M. Habib, Hilary Thornton, WA Carrock Sewell and Mahmoud Loubani. Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals, 2016 Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann. 2016 Sep;24(7):712-4. doi: 10.1177/0218492316655641. Epub 2016 Jun 28.
“The EuroSCORE: a neglected measure of medium-term survival following cardiac surgery”, Habib AM, Dhanji AR, Mansour SA, Wood A, Awad WI. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg., 2015 Oct; 21(4): 427-34
“Spontaneous combined lung and bowel hernia following an episode of acute bronchitis”, Ahmed Habib, Hany Elsayed, Al-Rehan A. Dhanji, and Alan Wood. Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg, 2010, 10(6): 1042-1043.
“Incidence of Post-operative atrial fibrillation in thoracoscopic versus open lobectomy for lung cancer”, A. Hussain, Z. Tahir, S. Qadri, A. Habib, M. Khalil. M. Chaudhry, M. Loubani. Poster abstract of the 16th Annual BTOG/ Lung Cancer Jan 2018. 115:S82, DOI10.1016/S0169-5002 (18)30211-3.
“Benefits of oral sildenafil to patients with mitral stenosis and severe pulmonary hypertension undergoing mitral valve replacement”, Sherif A. Mansour, Ashraf El Midany and Ahmed M. Habib. Abstract in the Heart Valve Society scientific meeting Mar 2017.
“Is endoscopic isolated tricuspid surgery a safe approach?.”Gunaratnam Niranjan, Charlene Tennyson, Ahmed Habib, Palaniqumar Saravanan, Andrew Knowles, Grzegorz Laskawski and Joseph Zachaias. ISMICS 2019: Oral presentation
“Endoscopic approach is a safe alternative to redo sternotomy for mitral and tricuspid valve re-operations.” Gunaratnam Niranjan, Charlene Tennyson, Ahmed Habib, Palaniqumar Saravanan, Andrew Knowles, Grzegorz Laskawski and Joseph Zachaias. ISMICS 2019: Oral presentation.
“VATS Diaphragmatic Plication”. Ahmed M. Habib, P. Ariyaratnam, A. Hussain, R. Maxine, R. Thomson, S. S. A. Qadri, M. Loubani. EACTS 32nd annual meeting 2018: Rapid Response.
“Coronary artery bypass surgery compared to percutaneous coronary intervention in patients less than 50 years of age: long-term outcomes” , Ahmed M. Abdel Shafi, Al- Rehan A. A. Dhanji, Ahmed M. Habib, Simon R.O. Kennon, Wael I. Awad. STS 2018: Press conference and Oral presentation.
“Benefits of oral sildenafil to patients with mitral stenosis and severe pulmonary hypertension undergoing mitral valve replacement”, Sherif A. Mansour, Ashraf El Midany and Ahmed M. Habib. HVS scientific meeting March 2017: Oral presentation.
“Review Of Thoracic Tertiary Referral Centre Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS)”. K. Smith A. Mostafa; AM Habib; I. Morgan; P. Yiu. SCTS 2019: Oral presentation.
“Is Sublobar Resection A Suitable Alternative To Lobectomy For A Selected Group Of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients?” A. Mostafa; K. Smith; AM Habib; I. Morgan; P. Yiu.SCTS 2019: Poster presentation
"VATS Diaphragmatic Plication Program: Preoperative and Postoperative Clinical, Radiologic and Spirometric assessments." - A M Habib; A Hussain; Z Tahir; S Qadri; M Loubani: Poster presentation.
"Left VATS diaphragmatic plication" - A M Habib; P Ariyaratnam; S Qadri; M Loubani: Movie presentation.
"Right VATS Atrial Fibrillation Ablation" - A M Habib; M Loubani; M Dalrymple-Hay; M A Chaudhry: Movie presentation.
“Case Report: Single pulmonary hilar lymph node metastasis presenting 13 years following colorectal cancer”, Ahmed Habib, Xenophon Kassianides and Soheil Qadri. Hull Medical society’s Northern Trainees Conference March 2017:Poster presentation

Prizes and awards

Winner of best thoracic video, 'Hybrid Robotic Diaphragm plication': Webinar worldwide presentation with questions from pioneers, SCTS 2021 (March 2021)
“Left VATS Diaphragmatic plication”: Webinar worldwide presentation with questions from pioneers. Won best Thoracic video presentation, SCTS 2018 Glasgow and CTSNET (March 2018)
“Coronary artery bypass surgery compared to percutaneous coronary intervention in patients less than 50 years of age: long-term outcomes”: Press conference, Society of Thoracic Surgeons (January 2018)
Re-Audit: Reviewing the efficiency of data collection of cardiothoracic surgery cases onto Dendrite. President’s prize: Poster presentation, The Royal Society of Medicine (November 2016)
The EuroSCORE: a neglected measure of medium term-survival following cardiac surgery, Top 20 Articles on Risk Stratification in Cardiac Surgery, Biomedlib (2015)
Thymic Carcinoma presenting as intracardiac tumour. President’s prize: Poster presentation, The Royal Society of Medicine (November 2013)
Coronary Artery Aneurysm causing myocardial infarct. President’s prize: Poster presentation, The Royal Society of Medicine (November 2013)

Languages spoken

English
ِArabic

Registration number: 7022019

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Very nice
25 April 2025
M.I.
Verified patient
Very knowledgeable and relaxed would definitely recommend
13 September 2024
J.T.
Verified patient
Dr Habib was very informative and reassuring. He was happy to answer all of my questions and explained them with clarity and confidence
2 May 2024
R.M.
Verified patient
I was nervous at first but I explained about my health the doctor listened and explained what I needed to no and advice me what to do there ars some more test to be done which is good has I will no more about my condition and he explained in detail so glad l went to see him
17 February 2024
P.C.
Verified patient
14 September 2023
K.C.
Verified patient
Very good surgeon, explains everything, very good team.
13 September 2023
D.B.
Verified patient
A very caring Dr Habib he explained everything perfectly and I understood that I have to make this problem a priority And the staff are amazing and put me at ease straight away
3 August 2023
S.H.
Verified patient
3 August 2023
K.K.
Verified patient
Quicker response when booking appointment.
2 June 2023
N.I.
Verified patient
26 May 2023
M.H.
Verified patient

Treatments

The doctor is expert in

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Hyperhidrosis

Lung cancer

Pectus excavatum

Pneumothorax

Robotic surgery

The doctor also specialises in:

Bronchoscopy

Chest X-ray

Chest pain

Chest wall tumours

Chylothorax

Costochondritis

Fractured ribs

Hemothorax

Lung transplant

Mediastinal tumour

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Dr Ahmed Habib

Cardiothoracic Surgery in Wolverhampton and Birmingham

Professional statement

Clinics

New Cross Hospital (Private Patients)

Credentials

Professional experience

Subspecialties

Professional memberships

Education

Teaching posts

Positions in organisations

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Prizes and awards

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