About

Mahmoud Salam, PhD, MSN, RN

Dr. Mahmoud Salam joined LAU in September 2023 as an Assistant Professor of Nursing at the Alice Ramez Chaghoury School of Nursing. Dr. Salam has a critical care clinical experience, licensed both in Lebanon and USA. He has extensive training in case management at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He was a senior research coordinator at a leading medical research center abroad.

Education

Research Interests and Projects

Dr. Salam has a strong research interest in the fields of Nursing, Public health, Infection control and Occupational safety.

Dr. Salam has contributed to various health related research projects in the past years. He was actively involved in a National Biobanking Project in 2010. Since 2013, he worked with other researchers on studies related to the quality of life among diabetics, nurses’ perception towards accreditation, peripheral intravenous catheter complications, antibiotic prescription errors, accidental ingestion of poisons, attitude of cancer patients towards healthcare management, adverse events post blood donations, perceived risks associated with blood transfusion, addiction to smartphone usage, thrombocytopenia in neonates, allergies, early menarche, obesity and eating disorders, forensic odontology, mental illness, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, BPA, moral distress among nurses, perceptions towards MERS-CoV, oral parafunctional habits, delirium post-op, workplace bullying, low back pain, late cancer presentation, attitudes towards vaccines and few editorials. Dr. Salam acted as a peer reviewer on some journals such as Clinical Toxicology, Pediatrics, Plos One, International Journal of Nursing and Health Care Research, International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health and others.

Dr. Salam participated in many research events where he presented his work and got awarded. Two of his research projects received grants from the research boards at AUB and PIRF at LAU. Dr. Salam’s work is heavily cited (>2400 times) with an h-index-26 and i10-index 37.  

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=FKqrAGkAAAAJ

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mahmoud-Salam-5

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4262-4201

Selected Publications

  1. Abolfotouh MA, Salam M, Bani-Mustafa A, White D and Balkhy HH (2014). Prospective study of incidence and predictors of peripheral intravenous catheter-induced complications. Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management. Vol (10). 993-1001.
  2. Alanazi, M. Q., Al-Jeraisy, M. I., & Salam, M. (2015). Prevalence and predictors of antibiotic prescription errors in an emergency department, Central Saudi Arabia. Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety, 7, 103
  3. Alanazi, M. Q., Al-Jeraisy, M., & Salam, M. (2016). Severity scores and their associated factors among orally poisoned toddlers: a cross sectional single poison center study. BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, 17(1), 1-9.
  4. Mohammed AlAteeq, Abdulaziz M Alrashoud, Mohammed Khair, Mahmoud Salam: Smoking cessation advice: the self-reported attitudes and practice of primary health care physicians in a military community, central Saudi Arabia. Patient Preference and Adherence 04/2016; 10(1):651-658.
  5. Abolfotouh, M. A., AlQarni, A. A., Al-Ghamdi, S. M., Salam, M., Al-Assiri, M. H., & Balkhy, H. H. (2017). An assessment of the level of concern among hospital-based health-care workers regarding MERS outbreaks in Saudi Arabia. BMC Infectious Diseases, 17(1), 4.‏
  6. Almutairi, H., Salam, M., Alajlan, A., Wani, F., Al-Shammari, B., & Al-Surimi, K. (2017). Incidence, predictors and severity of adverse events among whole blood donors. PloS one, 12(7), e0179831.‏
  7. Adel F Almutairi, Mahmoud Salam, Samiyah Alanazi, Manal Alweldawi, Najad Alsomali, Najla Alotaibi (2017). Impact of help-seeking behavior and partner support on postpartum depression among Saudi women. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. Volume 13:1929-1936.
  8. Alhassan AA, Alqadhib EM, Taha NW, Alahmari RA, Salam M, Almutairi AF. The relationship between addiction to smartphone usage and depression among adults: a cross sectional study. BMC psychiatry. 2018 Dec;18(1):148.
  9. Alkanhal R, Alhoshan I, Aldakhil S, Alromaih N, Alharthy N, Salam M, Almutairi AF. Prevalence triggers and clinical severity associated with anaphylaxis at a tertiary care facility in Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study. Medicine. 2018 Aug 1;97(31):e11582.
  10. Ali M, Jaghbir M, Salam M, Al-Kadamany G, Damsees R, Al-Rawashdeh N. 2018. Testing baby bottles for the presence of residual and migrated bisphenol A. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 191(1):7.
  11. Almuhlafi M, Abu Jamilah K, Almutairi AF, Salam M. Relationship between early menarche, obesity, and disordered eating behaviors: a school-based cross-sectional survey in Northern Saudi Arabia. Diabetes metabolic syndrome and obesity-targets and therapy. 2018 Jan 1;11:743-51.
  12. Almughais ES, Alfarhan A, Salam M. Awareness of primary health care physicians about human papilloma virus infection and its vaccination: a cross-sectional survey from multiple clinics in Saudi Arabia. INFECTION AND DRUG RESISTANCE. 2018 Jan 1;11:2257-67.
  13. Mostafa A Abolfotouh, Adel F Almutairi, Zainab Almutairi, Mahmoud Salam, Anwar Alhashem, Abdallah A Adlan, Omar Modayfer. Attitudes toward mental illness, mentally ill persons, and help-seeking among the Saudi public and sociodemographic correlates. Psychology Research and Behavior Management. 2019;45-54.
  14. Adel F Almutairi, Mahmoud Salam, Abdallah A Adlan, Abdullah S Alturki (2019). Prevalence of severe moral distress among healthcare providers in Saudi Arabia. Psychology Research and Behavior Management. Volume 2019:12 Pages 107—115
  15. Aldohyan M, Al-Rawashdeh N, Sakr FM, Rahman S, Alfarhan AI, Salam M. The perceived effectiveness of MERS-CoV educational programs and knowledge transfer among primary healthcare workers: a cross-sectional survey. BMC infectious diseases. 2019 Dec;19(1):273.
  16. Adel F. Almutairi, Badriah M. Almutairi, Abdullah S. Alturki, Abdallah A. Adlan, Mahmoud Salam, Majed I Al-Jeraisy, Hanan H. Balkhy. Public motives and willingness to participate in first-in-human clinical trials in Saudi Arabia: A new era in the making. J Infect Public Health (2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2019.03.013
  17. M. Salam, N. Al Rawashdeh, A.F. Almutairi, Public awareness of forensic odontology and willingness to enroll in a prospective dental registry: a survey conducted in Saudi Arabia, The Saudi Dental Journal (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sdentj.2019.05.008
  18. Almehizia AA, AlEssa RK, Alwusaidi KM, Alzamil KA, AlJumah M, Aljohani S, Adel F. Almutairi, Salam M (2019) Allergic rhinitis: Disease characteristics and coping measures in Saudi Arabia. PLoS ONE 14(6): e0217182. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0217182
  19. Abolfotouh, M.A., BaniMustafa, A., Salam, M. et al. Use of smartphone and perception towards the usefulness and practicality of its medical applications among healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia. BMC Health Serv Res 19, 826 (2019) doi:10.1186/s12913-019-4523-1
  20. Omar, M., Salam, M. & Al-Surimi, K. Workplace bullying and its impact on the quality of healthcare and patient safety. Hum Resour Health 17, 89 (2019) doi:10.1186/s12960-019-0433-x.
  21. A.F. Almutairi, N. Albesher, M. Aljohani, M. Alsenani, O. Turkistani, M. Salam, Association of Oral Parafunctional Habits with Anxiety and the Big-Five Personality Traits in the Saudi Adult Population, The Saudi Dental Journal (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sdentj.2020.01.003
  22. Almutairi, A. F., BaniMustafa, A. A., Bin Saidan, T., Alhizam, S., & Salam, M. (2021). The prevalence and factors associated with low back pain among people with flat feet. International Journal of General Medicine, 3677-3685.
  23. Damsees, R., Jaghbir, M., Salam, M., Al-Omari, A., & Al-Rawashdeh, N. (2023). Unravelling the predictors of late cancer presentation and diagnosis in Jordan: a cross-sectional study of patients with lung and colorectal cancers. BMJ open, 13(5), e069529.
  24. Salam, M. and Honein-AbouHaidar, G., 2023. Determinants of influenza and COVID-19 vaccine intent or uptake in Lebanon: a scoping review of the literature. BMC Infectious Diseases, 23(1), pp.1-18.
  25. Ali, M., & Salam, M. (2024). Factors associated with COVID‐19 vaccine uptake and hesitancy among multinational refugees and migrants in Jordan. International Migration, 62(4), 57-81.
  26. Alhelail, M., Albelali, A., Alkanhal, R., & Salam, M. (2024). Severity of scorpion envenomation in Saudi Arabia: A systematic review. Toxicology Reports, 101749.
  27. Salam, M., & Honein-Abou Haidar, G. (2025). Influenza vaccine hesitancy and its determinants among Lebanese public transportation drivers. Vaccine: X, 22, 100606.
  28. Almutairi, H., Aboshaiqah, A., Alzahrani, M., Almutairi, A. F., & Salam, M. (2025). The Lived Experience of Adult Cancer Survivors After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Qualitative Study From Saudi Arabia. Patient preference and adherence, 279-293.
  29. Salam, M., El Chaar, W., Mansour, M., Assaf, A. A. H., Kamel, A., Itani, A. R., … & Khattar, J. (2025). COVID-19 risk perceptions among public transportation drivers and users in Lebanon: A cross-sectional study. Journal of Transport & Health, 44, 102149.