About

Carole Abdel Karim, MSc, BSN, RN, CNEcl

Ms. Abdel Karim joined the Alice Ramez Chagoury School of Nursing (ARCSON) in September 2023 as a part-time Clinical Instructor. She was promoted to Adjunct Nursing Faculty in 2024 and subsequently to full-time Clinical Instructor in 2026. She received the Florence Nightingale Award in 2015 and the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses in 2021.

She has experience in clinical practice and expertise in adult and critical care, especially in septic, traumatic, and medical-surgical cases. She is a certified academic clinical nurse educator and an active member of the National League for Nursing (NLN), the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL), Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, and the Order of Nurses in Lebanon.

In addition to her clinical and teaching roles, she has cellular research experience from the Pharmacogenetics Laboratory in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at AUB where she focused on studying the effects of waterpipe and cigarette smoking on breast cancer and alveolar cell lines. She is proficient in various molecular biology techniques, including RNA, DNA, and protein isolation and quantification, as well as assays measuring telomerase expression, relative telomere length, and telomerase activity.

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Azar, D., Kabbani, D., Abdel Karim, C., Akika, R., Melki, P., El Hourani, M., Salman, R., Nassar, F., Shihadeh, A., Ghantous, A., Nasr, R., & Zgheib, N. K. (2026). The Impact of Chronic Exposure to Cigarette and Waterpipe Smoke Extracts on Telomeres, Telomerase, and Cancer Progression. Frontiers in Genetics.

Abdel-Karim, C., Association of the Cytotoxic Effects of Waterpipe and Cigarette Smoke Extract with Relative Telomere Length (RTL) in Breast Cancer Cell Lines. 2021, American University of Beirut: AUB ScholarWorks.