Dr. Ihab Khatib

About Dr. Khatib

Dr. Ihab Khatib is a specialist in pediatrics, pediatric cardiology and adult congenital heart disease. He is a senior physician and head of pediatric cardiac catheterization at the Pediatric Heart Institute of Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa.

Dr. Khatib graduated from the Technion Faculty of Medicine (2003) and completed his residencies in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology at Rambam. From 2013 to 2022 he was a senior physician and interventional pediatric cardiologist at Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer. In 2016 he completed a fellowship at Marie Lannelongue Hospital in Paris in complex catheterization and transcatheter pulmonary valve implantation.

Alongside his hospital work, Dr. Khatib serves as a pediatric cardiologist and pediatrician for Maccabi Healthcare Services and in private practice. He believes in empathetic, approachable care with full transparency towards parents and patients.

"My greatest aim is to reduce pain and take away the fear of the unknown. When parents truly understand the medical process, that is the right way to cope."

Education & Experience

• 2023 –Head of Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization, Pediatric Heart Institute, Rambam Health Care Campus
• 2022 –Senior physician and interventional cardiologist, Pediatric Heart Institute, Rambam, Haifa
• 2016Fellowship in pediatric cardiac catheterization and transcatheter pulmonary valve implantation – Marie Lannelongue, Paris, France
• 2013 – 2022Senior physician and interventional pediatric & congenital cardiologist, Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer
• 2003MD, Technion Faculty of Medicine; residencies in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology at Rambam
• 2025Master's degree in Health Systems Management, University of Haifa

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Scientific Publications

Articles written or co-authored by Dr. Khatib and published in medical journals. Click a title to open it in PubMed.

1. 2024
   Outcomes of transcatheter pulmonary SAPIEN 3 valve implantation: an international registry

   Hascoët S, Bentham JR, Giugno L, … Khatib I, … Fraisse A; EUROPULMS3 investigators

   Eur Heart J. 2024;45(3):198-210 · PubMed 37874971 · DOI

2. 2017
   Tetralogy of Fallot associated with multiple anomalies

   Khatib I, Lebret E, Lambert V, Hascoët S

   Eur Heart J. 2017;38(4):246 · PubMed 28182219 · DOI

3. 2013
   Increased incidence of coronary artery origin anomalies associated with isolated patent ductus arteriosus

   Dotan M, Roguin A, Sinyor D, Yalonetsky S, Asaad K, Schwartz Y, Khatib I, Lorber A

   Pediatr Cardiol. 2013;34(4):907-11 · PubMed 23143349 · DOI

4. 2012
   Kingella endocarditis after closure of ventricular septal defect with a transcatheter device

   Kassis I, Shachor-Meyouhas Y, Khatib I, Khoury A, Le TP, Lorber A

   Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2012;31(1):105-6 · PubMed 22217975 · DOI

5. 2011
   Transcatheter Amplatzer septal occluder closure of residual ASD shunt: following StarFlex spring protrusion

   Khatib I, Schwartz Y, Lorber A

   Heart Asia. 2011;3(1):39-40 · PubMed 27325984 · DOI

6. 2011
   Intrapericardial steroid treatment for recurrent pericardial effusion in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

   Mainzer G, Zaidman I, Hatib I, Lorber A

   Hematol Oncol. 2011;29(4):220-1 · PubMed 21308722 · DOI

7. 2010
   Transcatheter closure of ruptured right-coronary aortic sinus fistula to right ventricle

   Khoury A, Khatib I, Halabi M, Lorber A

   Ann Pediatr Cardiol. 2010;3(2):178-80 · PubMed 21234201 · DOI

8. 2010
   MEFV, TNF1rA, CARD15 and NLRP3 mutation analysis in PFAPA

   Dagan E, Gershoni-Baruch R, Khatib I, Mori A, Brik R

   Rheumatol Int. 2010;30(5):633-6 · PubMed 19579027 · DOI

9. 2008
   Clinical quiz: Mysterious hyperkalemia and cardiac arrest in a newborn infant undergoing continuous veno-venous hemofiltration dialysis: acute hyperkalemia

   Bar-Joseph G, Tarabia M, Halberthal M, Khatib I, Eisenstein I, Zelikovic I

   Pediatr Nephrol. 2008;23(7):1053-7 · PubMed 18431603 · DOI

10. 2005
    Intra-familial clinical heterogeneity: absence of genotype-phenotype correlation in primary hyperoxaluria type 1 in Israel

    Frishberg Y, Rinat C, Shalata A, Khatib I, Feinstein S, Becker-Cohen R, Weismann I, Wanders RJ, Rumsby G, Roels F, Mandel H

    Am J Nephrol. 2005;25(3):269-75 · PubMed 15961946 · DOI

11. 2003
    A novel mutation in the chloride channel gene, CLCNKB, as a cause of Gitelman and Bartter syndromes

    Zelikovic I, Szargel R, Hawash A, Labay V, Hatib I, Cohen N, Nakhoul F

    Kidney Int. 2003;63(1):24-32 · PubMed 12472765 · DOI

12. 2002
    A novel mutation in the deoxyguanosine kinase gene causing depletion of mitochondrial DNA

    Taanman JW, Kateeb I, Muntau AC, Jaksch M, Cohen N, Mandel H

    Ann Neurol. 2002;52(2):237-9 · PubMed 12210798 · DOI