Mehran Habibi, M.D., MBA, has been appointed chief of breast surgery at Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute and deputy chief of breast surgery for Baptist Health Cancer Care. Dr. Habibi brings over 20 years of experience in clinical and academic roles. His areas of expertise include oncoplastic and nipple-sparing mastectomies, nerve-preserving procedures, risk-reducing surgeries, and the use of advanced technologies for intraoperative tumor localization and margin assessment.
Dr. Habibi previously held senior leadership positions at Northwell Health, serving as director of breast surgery at Staten Island University Hospital, regional chief of breast surgery for Northwell’s Western Region, and director of international program development for Northwell Cancer Institute. He also spent more than 15 years at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he founded and led the Breast Center at Bayview Medical Center. He currently serves as an adjunct professor there.
“We are pleased to welcome Dr. Habibi to our highly skilled team of cancer care specialists, dedicated to providing the highest quality care,” said Leonard Kalman, M.D., executive deputy medical director and chief medical officer at Miami Cancer Institute.
Dr. Habibi leads research in surgical innovation, genomics, and tumor microenvironment studies. His current projects involve wire-free localization techniques, intraoperative margin assessment tools, tumor tissue mechanics studies, breast cancer genomics research, and examining the role of the microbiome in breast cancer progression and therapy response. He has received multiple grants for his work and published research in peer-reviewed journals.
He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a fellow with the American Society of Breast Surgeons. Dr. Habibi reviews articles for The Breast Journal and JAMA Surgery and sits on the editorial board for Archives of Breast Cancer.
His education includes a medical degree from Islamic Azad University in Tehran; surgical training at Pennsylvania Hospital and St. Luke’s Hospital; a fellowship in complex surgical oncology from the Medical College of Virginia; and an MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Dr. Habibi will see patients at Miami Cancer Institute located at 8900 North Kendall Drive in Miami.
Baptist Health South Florida operates 12 hospitals with more than 28,000 employees across four counties in South Florida: Miami-Dade, Monroe, Broward, and Palm Beach (https://baptisthealth.net/). The organization runs over 200 outpatient centers along with urgent care facilities and physician practices throughout these regions (https://baptisthealth.net/locations). Baptist Health is recognized by Fortune as one of America’s top employers (https://fortune.com/ranking/best-companies/) and holds multiple awards from U.S. News & World Report (https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/fl/baptist-hospital-of-miami-6390180).
