William Zoghbi

Zoghbi served on the Board of the World Heart Federation from 2014 to 2015 and co-chaired the Global Task Force for Cardiovascular disease for the World Heart Federation.

Zoghbi has served as Associate Editor of the journal Circulation. He currently serves as Section Editor for Global Health for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology–Cardiovascular Imaging. He is on the editorial board of the journal Global Heart.

Zoghbi is married to neurogeneticist Huda Y. Zoghbi. Together they have two children. In 2012, William carried the torch for the 2012 London Olympic Games through Bicester, England

In 2004 after an administrative split between Baylor College of Medicine and Methodist Hospital, The Methodist Hospital formed an academic affiliation with Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital to foster academic advancement and clinical training. In 2005, Zoghbi joined Houston Methodist and established a Cardiovascular Imaging Institute. He also received the William L. Winters Chair in Cardiovascular Imaging at Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center. In 2014, Zoghbi became the Elkins Family Distinguished Chair in Cardiac Health at Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center and was appointed Chair of Cardiology at Houston Methodist in 2016.

In 1989 he became the Associate Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory at Houston Methodist and served as its Director from 2002-2010. In 1994 he was appointed Deputy Medical Director of the Department of Internal Medicine. In 2004 he was awarded the John S. Dunn Sr. Endowed Chair in Echocardiography and served as Acting Chief of Cardiology at Baylor.

William Zoghbi joined the faculty of the Section of Cardiology in the Department of Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in 1985. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, and echocardiography.

Zoghbi has been involved with the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association, and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) since 1985. He served as President of the ASE in 2008-2009 and President of the American College of Cardiology in 2012-2013; he served on the ACC Board of Trustees from 2001-2015.

William Zoghbi was born in Beirut, Lebanon, to a Lebanese Christian family. He attended Collège de la Sagesse, a French international school in Beirut, where he developed a love of math and physics that inclined him toward engineering. But an encounter with a medical student sparked his interest in medicine, and he graduated from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 1975 with high distinction in Biology and Chemistry. He met his future wife, Huda, at the AUB Faculty of Medicine, as they were both beginning their medical school education.

William A. Zoghbi (born October 28, 1955) is a Lebanese-American cardiologist. He is Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and in the Houston Methodist Institute for Academic Medicine, in Houston Texas. He holds the Elkins Family Distinguished Chair in Cardiac Health at the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center. Zoghbi is the Chairman of the Department of Cardiology at Houston Methodist Hospital. He is a Master of the American College of Cardiology and served as its president in 2012.