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
Improving the care of Lassa fever patients: re-evaluating the use of Ribavirin and characterising cardiovascular function
Thesis / Dissertation
Salam A., (2024)
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
Factors Influencing Atypical Clinical Presentations during the 2017 Madagascar Pneumonic Plague Outbreak: A Prospective Cohort Study.
Journal article
Salam AP. et al, (2020), Am J Trop Med Hyg, 102, 1309 - 1315
Comparative Effectiveness of Combined Favipiravir and Oseltamivir Therapy Versus Oseltamivir Monotherapy in Critically Ill Patients With Influenza Virus Infection.
Journal article
Wang Y. et al, (2020), J Infect Dis, 221, 1688 - 1698
Effects of dietary nitrate supplementation on microvascular physiology at 4559 m altitude - A randomised controlled trial (Xtreme Alps).
Journal article
Cumpstey AF. et al, (2020), Nitric Oxide, 94, 27 - 35