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Zuhdi
Lababidi, MD Professional (Emeritus), Division Chief of Pediatric Cardiology
Pediatric Cardiology
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M.D.:
1965,
American University, Lebanon
Pediatrics:
1968, University of Iowa
Pediatric
Cardiology:
1970,
University of Iowa
Dr.
Lababidi has graduated from The American University of Beirut in 1965. He
finished his Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology training at the
University of Iowa in Iowa City in 1970, after which he joined the faculty
at the University Hospital in Columbia, Missouri and has been the division
chief of Pediatric Cardiology since then. Dr. Lababidi served in the
United States Army Reserve for 23 years and retired as a colonel after
serving in Desert Storm.
He
is certified by the American Boards in Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology
and has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American
College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the American
College of Angiology. He served as President of the “Midwest Pediatric
Cardiology Society” in 1985. He has published 61 scientific articles and
9 book chapters. He also has presented 95 scientific papers at National
and International meetings.
Among
Dr. Lababidi’s achievements and pioneering works is the development of
an Impedance Cardiac Output Machine for NASA in 1969, which
is now a standard non-invasive cardiac output machine. He pioneered Balloon
Aortic Valvuloplasty in 1982 and was invited to demonstrate and teach
his procedure at several university hospitals in the United States and
several international countries. He is on the executive committee for the
“National Registry of Balloon Angioplasty for Congenital Heart
Disease”. He performed Balloon Coarctation Angioplasty on the
smallest baby (weighing 1 lb.) in 1996, which were televised on National
ABC Evening News and the International CNN and BBC news.
Dr.
Lababidi received the following awards: the American Academy of Pediatrics
“Young Investigators Award” in 1969, the “Paul Dudley
White Award” for outstanding accomplishments in Cardiology which was
presented to him by the surgeon general C. Everett Koop in 1987, the “Miracle
Maker Award” for exceptional children’s physicians in 1996, the
“Kiwanis Golden Key Award” in 1996, and the “Fred Heinkel
Award” for Excellence and Accomplishments in Cardiology in 1996. He
is listed in the “Best Doctors in America” since 1996 and is
listed among the top 12 pediatric cardiologists in the March 1996 issue of
the “American Health Magazine.” Dr Lababidi was also awarded the
American Heart Association’s Hugh Stephenson’s Clinical Award
for 2001.
Dr
Lababidi has served the children of Missouri for 32 years. To demonstrate
his commitment to his patients he has watched them as infants growing into
effective adult citizens, attended most of their high school and college
graduations and the first birthday party of their children.
Selected
Publications:
1.
Lababidi
Z, Ehmke DA, Durnin RE, Leaverton PE, Lauer RM.
The First Derivative Thoracic Impedance Cardiogram - A Useful
Signal for Timing Events in the Cardiac Cycle.
NASA
9:142-161,
1969.
2.
Lababidi
Z, Wu JR.
Percutaneous
Balloon Pulmonary Valvuloplasty, American Journal of Cardiology,
52:560-562, 1983.
3.
Lababidi
Z.
Aortic
Balloon Valvulopasty.
American
Heart Journal, 106:751-752, 1983
4.
Lababidi
Z.
Neonatal
Tranluminal Balloon Coarctation Angioplasty.
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