Bassem Ghali, MD

Associate Professor

My professional interests are in inpatient general internal medicine, global health equity, health care delivery in resource-limited settings. I care about accompaniment of patients with frequent or prolonged encounters with the health care system, social medicine education, leveraging patient narratives to enhance healthcare and educate medical students. I also work on developing and improving tech tools for hospitalists and providing coaching to support trainees and faculty.
Education
MSc, 2022 - Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2018 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
2018 - HEAL (Global health equity) Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco
2016 - Internal Medicine Residency, Yale New Haven Hospital
MD, 2013 - Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine
B.S, 2007 - Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
Publications

  1. Lillian Walkover, Anup Agarwal, Bassem Ghali, Qiratulanne Khan. Case Studies in Global Health Illuminating Theory and Practice. Edited By Lillian Walkover, Jade Fukushima, Sriram Shamasunder, Phuoc V. Le Chapter 4: Constipation as Embodied Oppression: Using Structural Competency in Community Health. 2026. PMID:


  2. Kole A, Agarwal A, Seth B, Sandhu S, Ghali B, Arya P, Patil S, Jain Y, Kwan G. Epidemiology of heart failure in rural Chhattisgarh, India. The National medical journal of India 2023. PMID: 38692613


  3. Bongiovanni T, Shamasunder S, Brown W, Rivera Carpenter C, Pantell M, Ghali B, Harrison JD. Lessons learned from academic medical centers' response to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with the Navajo Nation. "Are Telehealth Visits Feasible for Vulnerable Patients?" 2022. PMID: 35381019


  4. Oral E, Ghali BW, Neils A, Muratoglu OK. A new mechanism of oxidation in ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene caused by squalene absorption. Volume 100 of Issue 3. 2011. PMID: 22190411


  6. Oral E, Ghali BW, Rowell SL, Micheli BR, Lozynsky AJ, Muratoglu OK. A surface crosslinked UHMWPE stabilized by vitamin E with low wear and high fatigue strength. Volume 31 of Issue 27. 2010. PMID: 20579730


  7. Kiuru M, Solomon J, Ghali B, van der Meulen M, Crystal RG, Hidaka C. Transient overexpression of sonic hedgehog alters the architecture and mechanical properties of trabecular bone. Volume 24 of Issue 9. 2009. PMID: 19338448


  8. Oral E, Godleski-Beckos C, Ghali BW, Lozynsky AJ, Muratoglu OK. Effect of cross-link density on the high pressure crystallization of UHMWPE. Volume 90 of Issue 2. 2009. PMID: 19213055