
Khalid El-salem
President
Professor Khalid El-Salem President, Jordan University of Science and Technology Professor El-Salem is the president of Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) and Chairman of the Board of Directors of King Abdullah University Hospital. He graduated with a medical degree (MD) form JUST in 1996 and continued his higher education in the United States were he did his residency in Clinical Neurology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Post- Doctoral Fellowship at Duke University Medical Center. He is American Board Certified in four subspecialties: Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, Electrodiagnostic Medicine, and Neuromuscular Medicine. He also received a master's degree in health professions education. In 2002, he joined the medical school of JUST as an assistant professor, to be promoted over the following years to associate and then full professor in 2012. During that time Prof. El-Salem was appointed to many administrative positions, from chairman of specialty, to assistant dean of medicine, vice dean of scientific research, vice dean of graduate studies, dean of graduate studies, vice president of JUST, and finally he has been the president of JUST since 2021. Prof. El-Salem was appointed as a member of the board of trustees of two government universities. He served in many high ranked committees in the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and chaired the medical and pharmaceutical sector committee for Scientific Research Fund, and the Neurology Committee of the Jordanian Board of Neurology. Prof. El-Salem also served as the president of the Jordanian Neurological society for two years. He published numerous articles in the leading journals of neurology and medical education and is active in research with multiple on-going institutional, national, and international projects.
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