Habib Samady, MD
Habib Samady is an interventional cardiologist and serves as President of the Georgia Heart Institute. In his current role, Dr. Samady works with physicians, administrators, frontline staff and researchers to oversee clinical, administrative, research and educational activities for the Georgia Heart Institute. He is also Director of the Georgia Center for Cardiovascular Biomechanics and Modeling and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Emory University.
Before joining NGHS, Dr. Samady served as Professor of Medicine and Director of Interventional Cardiology at Emory University for more than a decade. In that role, he performed complex coronary interventions, oversaw the Emory cardiac catherization laboratories for four hospitals, and trained clinical cardiologists and interventional cardiology fellows. He helped establish Emory University’s complex coronary center and its women’s heart disease invasive program, leading them to rank among the top programs in the nation.
Dr. Samady is recognized as one of the foremost international experts in coronary physiology. He guides a leading international clinical research program and is extensively published with more than 400 publications and abstracts. He is Deputy Editor for the Journal of American College of Cardiology Cardiovascular Interventions, the nation’s leading academic journal for interventional cardiology and co-editor of a major textbook, Interventional Cardiology, McGraw Hill. Dr. Samady is co-founder of Covanos Inc., a computational diagnostic cardiovascular imaging start-up company and is involved in a number of other start-ups.
Dr. Samady went to medical school at the University of Sheffield in England, and did residency training in London and in Sheffield. He subsequently went on to complete internal medicine residency and chief residency at the University of Connecticut, before doing fellowships in general cardiology, nuclear cardiology and interventional cardiology at Yale University in Connecticut.
When he’s not caring for patients or at work, Dr. Samady enjoys spending time with his wife, Heather, an Anesthesiologist, and their three teenage children. He plays soccer, tennis, hikes and skis.
