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Roby Philip, RN, BSN, CVRN
Heart Transplant Nurse Coordinator
VA Houston health care
Roby Philip works as a heart transplant coordinator at the Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center.
He completed a bachelor’s degree in nursing from MGR University in India. He started his career as a nursing school instructor. Then worked as a critical care nurse at the Baylor St. Luke’s hospital for nine years.
He then joined the heart transplant program at the Baylor St. Luke’s medical center as a transplant coordinator. He joined the Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center in 2018 as a kidney transplant coordinator. With all his extensive experience, he then joined the heart transplant program as heart transplant coordinator.