Hatem Salem
MD FRACP FRCPA
Email: hatem.salem@monash.edu
Phone: +61 3 99030129
Fax: +61 3 99030228
Positions
- Head, Department of Clinical Haematology, Monash University,
- Head, Department of Clinical Haematology, Alfred Hospital
- Program Director, Cancer and Medical Specialities
Biography
Hatem Salem is the Head of the Academic Department of Clinical Haematology at Monash University and the Head of Clinical Haematology at the Alfred Hospital. He is currently the President of Asia Pacific Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis and past president and Executive Director of the Australasian Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis. He is a senior Counsellor of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. His clinical and laboratory research interest is in the field of thrombosis and haemostasis. He has published in excess of 140 peer reviewed articles in International journals, received many awards and grants throughout his career, and has supervised the training of many PhD graduates. In 2005, his vision and ability to develop leading clinical and research programs was recognised by the Victorian Government’s Public Healthcare Award, where he was the recipient of the Health Minister’s Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement.
In 2010, Professor Hatem Salem was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to medicine in the field of haematology as a clinician, educator and researcher and also through the establishment of the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases.
Hatem Salem is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, a licentiate and member of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) and a member of the Royal College of Surgeons (London). He received his doctorate degree from Monash University in 1984 and his basic medical degree from the University of Mosul, Iraq in 1977
