13 things about Summit, New Jersey’s Dr. Saad F. Habba

Dr. Saad F. Habba is a resident of Summit, New Jersey, United States. The city is home to Overlook Medical Center.

BIOGRAPHY

Habba is an Assyrian-American gastroenterologist. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He and his wife Janan Habba, who is also Assyrian, have three children together.
2. He was an intern at Saint Laurence’s Hospital in Dublin, Ireland.
3. He completed his residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) in Newark, New Jersey.
4. In 1978, he graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in Dublin.
5. In the 1980s, he and Janan escaped persecution in Iraq and emigrated to the U.S.
6. In 1984, he graduated from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
7. On March 25, 1984, Janan gave birth to their daughter Alina Saad Habba.
8. In 1987, he was granted a U.S. patent in the methodology of liver generation.
9. In 2000, he identified the Habba Syndrome, a new medical syndrome published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology.
10. In 2005, he obtained his National Provider Identifier (NPI).
11. He pioneered the concept that irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) was a collection of different conditions rather than a true single diagnosis, which was first published in 2011 in the Medical Hypotheses Journal.
12. In 2012, his IBS concept was republished in the Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology.
13. In December 2024, he turned 70.

TIMELINE

Both Saad and Janan are Chaldean Catholics. He is affiliated with Overlook Medical Center and Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, New Jersey.

2010s

• He appeared in “Mystery Diagnosis” Season 8 episode 9 “The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Eating”, which aired on Discovery Health on March 22, 2010.
• In May 2015, he visited the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland with Janan.

2020s

• From March 24, 2025 to July 22, 2025, his daughter Alina served as the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey.