Bassem Ghali, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

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 & Training

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• MSc Public Health London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 2022
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
• HEAL (Global health equity) Fellowship University of California, San Francisco 2018
• Internal Medicine Residency Yale New Haven Hospital 2016
• MD Medicine University of Virginia School of Medicine 2013
• B.S Mechanical Engineering Cornell University 2007

Publications (7)

Top publication keywords:
SqualeneVitamin EMaterials TestingJoint ProsthesisBone and BonesFree RadicalsHip ProsthesisAbsorptionParathyroid Hormone-Related ProteinOxygenAcademic Medical CentersCross-Linking ReagentsPolyethylenesHedgehog ProteinsPressure

• Epidemiology of heart failure in rural Chhattisgarh
  Natl Med J India 2023 Kole A, Agarwal A, Seth B, Sandhu S, Ghali B, Arya P, et al.
• Lessons learned from academic medical centers' response to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with the Navajo Nation.
  PloS one 2022 Bongiovanni T, Shamasunder S, Brown W, Rivera Carpenter C, Pantell M, Ghali B, Harrison JD
• A new mechanism of oxidation in ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene caused by squalene absorption.
  Journal of biomedical materials research. Part B, Applied biomaterials 2011 Oral E, Ghali BW, Neils A, 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 Oral E, Ghali BW, Muratoglu OK
• A surface crosslinked UHMWPE stabilized by vitamin E with low wear and high fatigue strength.
  Biomaterials 2010 Oral E, Ghali BW, Rowell SL, Micheli BR, Lozynsky AJ, Muratoglu OK
• 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 Kiuru M, Solomon J, Ghali B, van der Meulen M, Crystal RG, Hidaka C
• Effect of cross-link density on the high pressure crystallization of UHMWPE.
  Journal of biomedical materials research. Part B, Applied biomaterials 2009 Oral E, Godleski-Beckos C, Ghali BW, Lozynsky AJ, Muratoglu OK