Dr. Habiba Chbib’s biography

Dr. Habiba Chbib is a German Board-Certified Specialist Pediatrician and graduated from the University of Aachen, Germany.
 

She received the degree of Qualified Medical Specialist in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine in Berlin, Germany, and is a member of the German Society of Pediatrics. She has practiced pediatrics and adolescent medicine, throughout training and working at different hospitals across Lebanon, Switzerland and Germany.

She has completed her residency training in three different academic teaching hospitals – University of Duisburg/Essen, Düsseldorf, and Charite Berlin post her residency in Switzerland at the Paraplegic Centre Nottwill.

At the Paraplegic Centre Nottwill, she gained expertise in fields of rehabilitation medicine. She was a part of an interdisciplinary team, with para and tetraplegic patients and their consecutive acute and long-term complications in the fields of internal medicine, spinal cord medicine, urology, psychology, neurology, plastic surgery and pain management. Additionally, she also had to manage and cooperate with the ergo- and physiotherapeutic teams as well as reintegrate the patients in their daily life by searching for an adequate job and living options.

In her first 2 years of pediatric training, she worked in a fast-paced and busy hospital environment, dealing with medical emergencies as they occurred. She was regularly taking care of transports for critically ill newborns, as well as the daily indications at the NICU. She was able to gain vast experience and competently acquired the required knowledge in pediatric ultrasound.

Dr. Chbib’s special focus in the fields of general pediatrics: preventive visits, immunizations, routine newborn care, adolescent medicine, infectious diseases as well as diseases of the newborns and premature. Her personal interest is mainly on chronic diseases, such as asthma and allergies.

Her last stage at Charite Berlin gave her deep understanding of her patients – from newborns to adults, on an empathetic level since she dealt mainly with refugees. She is distinguished by her competent expertise, her empathy during consultations with patients and parents, her independent and reliable tenacity at work, and her high level of proactivity.

Being a mother of four, equipped her with a deep experience on understanding the parents of her little patients, and render her services in a way that is most humane and sensitive on all accounts.

She performs the preventive examinations (Vorsorgeuntersuchungen (U2- J2) and is ready to supply with the U- Heft (German Check up Booklet) according to the German standard.

 
Additionally, she is ready to perform the ultrasound screening for Hip Dysplasia of the newborn.