Saad F Habba, MD is a graduate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and has been practicing medicine and Gastroenterology for more than 30 years. He is an attending consultant physician atOverlook Hospitalin Summit, NJ and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.
Dr. Habba was Chief of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ and is presently in private practice in Summit NJ.
He has presented and published in 26 national and international medical journals and symposia.
He was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award by UMDNJ and received a special medical achievement citation from the president of the New Jersey Senate. He has been acknowledged with multiple recognition awards by the New Jersey Medical Society. He served as an expert witness in Gastroenterology for the State of New Jersey and has made national and international radio and television appearances including the latest appearances on the Discovery Channel, Discovery Health Channel as well as the NJ TV program, 12 To Your Health.
In 2007, he was listed in "Guide to America's Top Physicians" by the Consumer Research Council of America. He was recently featured in New Jersey Life magazine (April/May 2011) in the article Doctors Who Make a Difference and cited in the June/July 2011 issue of Reader's Digest.
Dr Habba was the first to describe Habba Syndrome, which was published in the American College of Gastroenterology Journal Vol. 95, Issue 8, Page 2141, August 2000.
Dr. Habba’s latest article, published in Medical Hypotheses (Volume 76 issue 1, p97-99, 2011), proposes the radical idea that irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a collection of different conditions that can be successfully treated. This concept refutes the existence of IBS as a true entity.
Saad F. Habba, MD 12 Bank Street, Suite 102 Summit, NJ 07901 Phone: 908-273-3434 Fax: 908-273-3210
Last Update: May 5, 2011
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