Ghassan Chehadeh Habib

Dr. Ghassan Habib is an internist, pulmonologist and critical care intensivist practicing in New York at Northwell Health Staten Island University Hospital affiliated with Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine. Dr. Gus Habib specializes in the needs of critically ill patients. Critical care physicians are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care physician, Dr. Habib has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Habib manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections. Dr. Habib is American board certified in Internal Medicine and is currently completing his Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. Dr. Habib also works per diem in Emergency Medicine at New York City Health & Hospitals|Queens affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.