Our Team

Dr. Loebe is a former chief of the division of thoracic transplant and assist devices at the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, director of thoracic transplantation at the Houston Methodist J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center at Houston Methodist Hospital, and a professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. As an internationally acclaimed researcher and surgeon, Dr. Loebe has authored more than 200 articles, published The George P. Noon Textbook of Axial Flow, and is involved in numerous research studies on left ventricular assist devices and heart/lung transplantation. After attending medical school at the Free University in Berlin, Dr. Loebe stayed in Berlin to complete residencies at Hanover Medical School, the German Heart Institute, and the Jewish Hospital; he also completed a fellowship at the German Heart Institute while earning a Ph.D. at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Dr. Loebe was recently honored by the German Association of Transplant Recipients for 25 years of dedicated service in the field of solid organ transplantation.

Dr Loebe is active in academics, he has published in high impact surgical journals , author of multiple book chapters , and has presented at several national and international conferences .He serve as a  co editor  and  peer reviewer to multiple scientific journals. In addition he is a member of professional organizations and societies such as, the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, the American Thoracic Society, the American Medical Association, American Society of Transplantation.