Jess Ghannam, PhD
Clinical Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine
Dr. Jess Ghannam is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Global Health Sciences in the School of Medicine at UCSF. His research areas include evaluating the long-term health consequences of war on displaced communities and the psychological and psychiatric effects of armed conflict on children.
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Dr. Ghannam has developed community health clinics in the Middle East that focus on developing community-based treatment programs for families in crisis.
He is also a consultant with the Center for Constitutional Rights, Reprieve and other international NGO's that work with torture survivors. Locally he works to promote and enhance the health and wellness of refugee, displaced, and immigrant populations from the Middle East,North Africa and South Asia and has established a community-based Mental Health Treatment Programs to support these communities.
At UCSF Dr. Ghannam develops culturally competency training programs for staff, students and faculty working with patients from the Middle East. He has served on the Chancellor's Council of Campus Climate, Culture and Inclusion and is a member of the UCP, University and Community Partnerships Committee. He works with medical students and residents across disciplines to promote and enhance their clinical and research skills. Dr. Ghannam specializes in working with chronic illness, including chronic pain and cancer. He also works and does research in the area of Global Health and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Dr. Ghannam is also a Qualified Medical Examiner (QME) for the State of California.
He is past president of the Arab Cultural and Community Center and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in San Francisco.
UCSF Links
http://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/ghannam_jess.php
http://directory.ucsf.edu/people_detail.jsp?FNO=Jess.Ghannam@ucsf.edu
Awards
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- Mayor's Award for Outstanding Community Service, City and County of San Francisco, 2016
Education & Training
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- Post Doctoral Fellowship Psychology Stanford University
- MSc Health and Medical Sciences UC Berkeley
- MA Psychology UC Berkeley
- PhD Psychology UC Berkeley
- Post Doctoral Fellowship Psychiatry UCSF Mt Zion
- BA Psychology University of Michigan
Interests
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- Justice
- Diversity
- Equity
- Inclusion
- Palestine
- Genocide
- Community Engagement
- MENA and SWANA Regions
- mTBI
- Medical Apartheid
- PTSD
- Refugee Health
- War
- Displacement and Mass Trauma
- National Security
Websites
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- Website (jessghannam.com)
- Research Gate Website (researchgate.net)
Publications (13)
Top publication keywords:
Medical Staff, HospitalSyriaHealth Services AccessibilityArabsRefugeesRefugee CampsMental DisordersRegistriesMiddle EastPoverty AreasQuality Indicators, Health CareArmed ConflictsGeographic Information SystemsLebanonWarfare
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Unattended Mental Health Needs in Primary Care: Lebanon’s Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp.
Clinical Medicine Insights Psychiatry 2020 Steven P Segal, Vicky C Khoury, Ramy Salah, Jess Ghannam -
The impact of a stress management intervention on medical residents’ stress and burnout.
International Journal of Stress Management 2019 Jess Ghannam, Abdelhamid Afana, Evelyn Y Ho, Abdullatif Al-Khal, Carma L Bylund -
Coping with trauma and adversity among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip: A qualitative, culture-informed analysis.
Journal of health psychology 2018 Afana AJ, Tremblay J, Ghannam J, Ronsbo H, Veronese G -
Contributors to Screening Positive for Mental Illness in Lebanon's Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp.
The Journal of nervous and mental disease 2018 Segal SP, Khoury VC, Salah R, Ghannam J -
Burnout and sources of stress among medical residents at Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar.
Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit 2017 Afana A, Ghannam J, Ho EY, Al-Khal A, Al-Arab B, Bylund CL
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The psychological toll of slum living in Mumbai, India: a mixed methods study.
Social science & medicine (1982) 2014 Subbaraman R, Nolan L, Shitole T, Sawant K, Shitole S, Sood K, Nanarkar M, Ghannam J, Betancourt TS, Bloom DE, Patil-Deshmukh A -
The psychological toll of slum living—an assessment of mental health, disability, and slum-related adversities in Mumbai, India.
The Lancet Global Health 2014 Ramnath Subbaraman, Laura B Nolan, Tejal Shitole, Kiran Sawant, Shrutika Shitole, Kunal Sood, Mahesh Nanarkar, Jess Ghannam, David E Bloom, Anita Patil-Deshmukh -
Health and Human Rights in Palestine: The Siege and Invasion of Gaza and the Role of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement.
Human Rights in the Middle East 2011 Jess Ghannam -
Cancer registration and healthcare access in West Bank, Palestine: a GIS analysis of childhood cancer, 1998-2007.
International journal of cancer 2010 Bailony MR, Hararah MK, Salhab AR, Ghannam I, Abdeen Z, Ghannam J -
Post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety among Gaza Strip adolescents in the wake of the second Uprising (Intifada).
Child abuse & neglect 2007 Elbedour S, Onwuegbuzie AJ, Ghannam J, Whitcome JA, Abu Hein F -
The use of psychoanalytic constructs in the service of empire: Comment on Baruch (2003).
Psychoanalytic Psychology 2005 Jess Ghannam -
Definitions of Terrorism.
JAMA 2003 Robert Lipton, Jess H. Ghannam, Joel Beinin -
Definitions of terrorism.
JAMA 2003 Lipton R, Ghannam JH, Beinin J