Dr Ahmed Habib

 Professional experience

• More than 15 years of experience
• Consultant thoracic surgeon, New Cross Hospital, Private Patients (2018 - present)  
• Consultant thoracic surgeon, Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust (2018 - present)

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 Sub-specialties

• 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

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 Positions in public associations

• 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)

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 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)

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 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)

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 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

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 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)

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 Professional membership

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

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