Bassem Ghali, MD

Associate Professor

My interests are global health equity, capacity building in resource denied settings, social medicine education, and accompaniment of patients with frequent (or prolonged) encounters with the health care system.
Education
MSc, 2022 - Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2018 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
2018 - HEAL (Global health equity) Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco
2016 - Internal Medicine Residency, Yale New Haven Hospital
MD, 2013 - Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine
B.S, 2007 - Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
Publications

  1. Kole A, Agarwal A, Seth B, Sandhu S, Ghali B, Arya P, Patil S, Jain Y, Kwan G. Epidemiology of heart failure in rural Chhattisgarh, India. The National medical journal of India. 2023. PMID: 38692613


  2. Kole A, Agarwal A, Seth B, Sandhu S, Ghali B, Arya P, et al.. Epidemiology of heart failure in rural Chhattisgarh Natl Med J India. 2023. PMID:


  3. Bongiovanni T, Shamasunder S, Brown W, Rivera Carpenter C, Pantell M, Ghali B, Harrison JD. Lessons learned from academic medical centers' response to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with the Navajo Nation. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2022. PMID: 35381019


  4. Oral E, Ghali BW, Neils A, Muratoglu OK. A new mechanism of oxidation in ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene caused by squalene absorption. Journal of biomedical materials research. Part B, Applied biomaterials. 2011. PMID: 22190411


  5. Oral E, Ghali BW, Muratoglu OK. The elimination of free radicals in irradiated UHMWPEs with and without vitamin E stabilization by annealing under pressure. Journal of biomedical materials research. Part B, Applied biomaterials. 2011. PMID: 21381192


  6. Oral E, Ghali BW, Rowell SL, Micheli BR, Lozynsky AJ, Muratoglu OK. A surface crosslinked UHMWPE stabilized by vitamin E with low wear and high fatigue strength. Biomaterials. 2010. PMID: 20579730


  7. Kiuru M, Solomon J, Ghali B, van der Meulen M, Crystal RG, Hidaka C. Transient overexpression of sonic hedgehog alters the architecture and mechanical properties of trabecular bone. Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. 2009. PMID: 19338448


  8. Oral E, Godleski-Beckos C, Ghali BW, Lozynsky AJ, Muratoglu OK. Effect of cross-link density on the high pressure crystallization of UHMWPE. Journal of biomedical materials research. Part B, Applied biomaterials. 2009. PMID: 19213055