Doctor Ahmed Salem

Consultant Clinical Oncology at The Christie Hospital, Manchester, UK.

Country

United Kingdom

Speciality

Oncology

Subspeciality

Lung cancer, mesothelioma, thymoma.

Experience

2005 years

Languages

Arabic and English

Areas of expertise

Lung cancer
proton radiotherapy
Radiation Oncology
Radiation Therapy Physics

About the expert

Dr. Salem is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Lung Cancer Research at the University of Manchester and an Honorary Consultant in Clinical Oncology at The Christie Hospital, Manchester, UK. He attained a Ph.D. in Medicine at the University of Manchester, UK. He has published many peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, posters, and proceedings in eminent oncology conferences.

Dr. Ahmed Salem graduated from Misr University for Science and Technology in Egypt in 2005. He then undertook his postgraduate training in 2008 at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

He obtained his MSc in Oncology from Newcastle University in the UK in 2013, and in 2014, became a fellow of ESTRO by examination. In parallel, he completed training in radiation oncology at King Hussein Cancer Centre, Amman, Jordan in 2014.

He successfully completed the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) examination fellowship and a certificate in 2015, and in the same year, he got MRCP in Medical Oncology from the Royal College of Physicians and FRCR in Clinical Oncology from the Royal College of Radiologists in the UK.

In 2017, he completed a clinical research fellowship and attained a Ph.D. in Medicine at the University of Manchester, the UK, for research focusing on non-invasive therapeutic lung cancer biomarkers.

Dr. Salem is currently a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Lung Cancer Research at the University of Manchester and an Honorary Consultant in Clinical Oncology at The Christie Hospital, Manchester, UK.

He has published many peer-reviewed papers and many abstracts, posters, and proceedings in eminent oncology conferences. His research focuses on proton radiotherapy, MR guided radiotherapy (MR Linac), validating novel biomarkers of hypoxia, and radiosensitivity in lung cancer patients, leading to the conduct of biomarker-driven clinical trials.

Dr. Salem is a recipient of more than 10 prestigious academic oncology awards such as the ESTRO Accuray Award in 2018 and the ASTRO International-US annual meeting scientific abstract award.

He is a committee member in the Royal College of Radiologists clinical oncology and serves as Director and Chair of the ESTRO FALCON lung cancer contouring workshops operational group.

Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Clinical Oncology Consultant
2018 - Today
University of Manchester and Christie Hospital, UK.
Clinical Research Fellow
2014 - 2018
University of Manchester and Christie Hospital, UK.
Radiation oncology specialist
2014 - 2014
King Hussein Cancer Centre, Jordan.
Research intern
2009 - 2009
Anderson Cancer Center, USA.

Ph.D. in Medicine

University of Manchester, UK.

2017
PGCert in Medical Education

Dundee University, UK.

2017
FHEA in Higher Education

Higher Educational Academy, University of York, UK.

2016
Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists (FRCR) in Clinical Oncology

Royal College of Radiologists, UK.

2015
Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (MRCP) in Medical Oncology.

Royal Colleges of Physicians, UK.

2015
Board certification in Radiation Oncology

Jordan Medical Council, Jordan.

2014
MSc in Oncology

Newcastle University, UK.

2013
MBBCH in Medicine

Misr University for Science and Technology, Egypt.

2005

ESMO in Medical Oncology (2015)
ESTRO in Radiation Oncology (2014)

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