YOUSEF ABDULSALAM
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An Assistant Professor at Kuwait University
.. among other things  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


at the College of Business Administration
Department of Information Systems & Operations Management 
y.abdulsalam @ ku.edu.kw​
  • Research
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  • Education
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Research & Publications
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My research revolves around supply management topics in the health sector, including supply chain integration, the role and prevalence of purchasing alliances, and the physicians' role in the supply chain.


Peer-reviewed Journal Publications
  • Schneller, E., Abdulsalam, Y., 2022. Supply chain management and health services research: Aligning strange bedfellows. Health Services Research 1475-6773.13939.
  • Alibrahim, A., Abdulsalam, Y., Al Mutawa, S., Behbehani, H., Alhuwail, D., Al Jenaei, S., 2021. Towards value‐based healthcare: Establishing baseline pharmacy care costs for diabetes management. Health Planning & Management hpm.3370
  • Abdulsalam, Y. and E. Schneller. 2020. Of Bridges and Barriers: Buyer-Supplier Relationships in Health Care. Health Care Management Review.
  • Rogers, Z., S. Golara, Y. Abdulsalam, D. Rogers. 2020. A Sharing-Enabled Portfolio Approach to Distribution. Transportation Journal 59 (2).
  • Abdulsalam, Yousef, Dari AlHuwail, Eugene Schneller. 2020. Adopting Identification Standards in the Medical Device Supply Chain. The International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management 13 (1).
  • ​Abdulsalam, Y., D. Alhuwail, and E. Al-Jafar. 2019. Physicians’ Role in Health Care Supply Management in Kuwait. Arab Journal of Administrative Sciences 26 (2).
  • Alhuwail, D. and Y. Abdulsalam. 2019. Assessing eHealth Literacy in the State of Kuwait. Journal of Medical Internet Research 21 (5).
  • Abdulsalam, Y. and E. Schneller, 2019. Hospital Supply Expenses: An Important Ingredient in Health Services Research.  Medical Care Research and Review76 (2).
  • ​Abdulsalam, Y., M. Gopalakrishnan, A. Maltz, and E. Schneller. 2018. The impact of physician-hospital integration on hospital supply management. Journal of Operations Management 57 (1), 11–22.​
  • Abdulsalam, Y., M. Gopalakrishnan, A. Maltz, and E. Schneller. 2015. The Emergence of Consolidated Service Centers in Health Care. Journal of Business Logistics 36 (4): 321–34.
  • Abdulsalam, Y., M. Gopalakrishnan, A. Maltz, and E. Schneller. 2015. Health Care Matters: Supply Chains In and Of the Health Sector. Journal of Business Logistics 36 (4): 335–39.
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About my research
  • دراسة: الأطباء يجهلون أسعار 78% من الأدوية
    AlQabas Newspaper, November 2019.
  • Kuwait's Hundred Million Dollar Supply Management Opportunity
    ​LSE Middle East Centre. January 2019.
  • Hospital-doctor relationship is key to reduce healthcare supply costs
    ​W.P. Carey News & Research. Sept 2018.
  • 2017 Healthcare Supply Chain Trends Survey.
    ​Health Purchasing News. May 2017.
  • Consolidated Service Centers transform hospital purchasing
    W.P. Carey News & Research. Dec 2016. 
  • Medical Devices become safer thanks to barcodes​
    W.P. Carey News & Research. Nov 2016. 
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Research Photos
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Teaching
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​College of Business Administration, Kuwait University
  • Procurement (Special Topics Course)
  • Intro to Operations and Supply Chain Management
  • Introduction to Operations Research
  • Forecasting and Decision Modeling (Business Analytics)

 W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University 
  • Instructor, Supply Management (SCM355)
  • Teaching Assistant, Analytics for Logistics (SCM314)
  • Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Supply Chain Management (SCM300)
Teaching
Education

​​Arizona State University - Tempe, Arizona - 2016
PhD in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management
Dissertation: A Diagnosis of Supply Chain Integration in Healthcare
Adviser: Eugene S. Schneller

​University of Miami School of Business - Coral Gables, Florida - 2010
M.B.A. in Management Science, Computer Information Systems
 
The Pennsylvania State University - University Park, PA - 2008
B.Sc. in Accounting, Minor in Information Science, Minor in Economics
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Experience & Qualifications

London School of Economics and Political Science London, UK - 2018
Visiting Research Fellow, LSE Middle East Centre

Ernst & Young  Kuwait City, Kuwait - 2010 to 2012
Consultant, Advisory Services
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​Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification - 2012


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Yousef Abdulsalam. © 2022. ​