Alex Salam
Specialist Registrar in Infectious Disease and General Internal Medicine
- DPhil Student of Clinical Medicine
Alex has conducted field medical research in Antartica, at high-altitude and during parabolic flight. He was a Clinical Advisor at the Save the Children Kerry Town Ebola treatment centre (ETC) and subsequently Medical Director at the GOAL Port Loko ETC during the West African Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. Alex is the clinicial reasearcher on the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST), and is part of the core deployable team.
Recent publications
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Improving the care of Lassa fever patients: re-evaluating the use of Ribavirin and characterising cardiovascular function
Thesis / Dissertation
Salam A., (2024)
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Bubonic plague: can the size of buboes be accurately and consistently measured with a digital calliper?
Journal article
Bourner J. et al, (2023), Trials, 24