Omar El Shahawy

Omar El Shahawy, MD, MPH, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Summary

My research focuses on alternative tobacco product use among vulnerable populations including people with substance use disorder. The current research projects I am leading include smoking harm reduction among people with substance use disorder and people living with HIV/AIDS, smoking cessation among vulnerable populations, and patient-physician shared decision making. 

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Positions

Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Graduate Education

PhD from Virginia Commonwealth University

MPH from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

MD from Ain Shams University

Postdoctoral Training

New York University School of Medicine, Population Health Department

Effectiveness and impact of counseling enhanced with electronic cigarettes for harm reduction in smokers with opioid use disorder

Electronic cigarettes as a harm reduction strategy in people living with HIV/AIDS

A PHASE II RANDOMIZED OPEN LABEL MULTI-CENTER STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF ELCTRONIC CIGARETTES ON SMOKING HARM REDUCTION IN CIGARETTE SMOKERS WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS.

An Evaluation of Home Urinalysis Testing for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Patients at Elevated Risk for Developing Lupus Nephritis: A Pilot Stage and Randomized Controlled Study

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E-cigarette use and beliefs among adult smokers with substance use disorders

El-Shahawy, Omar; Schatz, Daniel; Sherman, Scott; Shelley, Donna; Lee, Joshua D; Tofighi, Babak

Addictive behaviors reports. 2021 Jun; 13:100329

Using Text Messaging Ecological Momentary Assessment to Record Changes in e-Cigarette and Combustible Cigarette Use: Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial

Morgan, Tucker; He, Michelle; Nicholson, Andrew; El Shahawy, Omar; Sherman, Scott E; Stevens, Elizabeth R

JMIR formative research. 2025 Mar 21; 9:e66709

E-cigarette use among a national sample of adults receiving substance use treatment in the United States

El-Shahawy, Omar; He, Michelle; Korostoff-Larsson, Olivia; Nahvi, Shadi; Palamar, Joseph J

Addictive behaviors. 2025 Mar 05; 166:108314

Trends in poisonings involving ketamine in the United States, 2019-2023

Palamar, Joseph J; Jewell, Jennifer S; El-Shahawy, Omar; Black, Joshua C

Drug & alcohol dependence. 2025 Mar 01; 268:112549

Association of family history of cardiovascular disease with the prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors in young adults in the United Arab Emirates: The UAE healthy future study

Mezhal, Fatima; Ahmad, Amar; Abdulle, Abdishakur; Leinberger-Jabari, Andrea; AlJunaibi, Abdulla; Alnaeemi, Abdulla; Al Dhaheri, Ayesha S; AlZaabi, Eiman; Al-Maskari, Fatma; AlAnouti, Fatme; Alkaabi, Juma; Kazim, Marina; Al-Houqani, Mohammad; Hag Ali, Mohammad; Oumeziane, Naima; El-Shahawy, Omar; Sherman, Scott; Shah, Syed M; Loney, Tom; Almahmeed, Wael; Idaghdour, Youssef; Ahmed, Luai A; Ali, Raghib

PLoS one. 2025 Mar; 20(3):e0319648

Switching to e-cigarettes as harm reduction among individuals with chronic disease who currently smoke: Results of a pilot randomized controlled trial

Vojjala, Mahathi; Stevens, Elizabeth R; Nicholson, Andrew; Morgan, Tucker; Kaneria, Aayush; Xiang, Grace; Wilker, Olivia; Wisniewski, Rachel; Melnic, Irina; El-Shahawy, Omar; Berger, Kenneth I; Sherman, Scott E

Nicotine & tobacco research. 2024 Dec 23; 27(1):36-45

E-cigarette (EC) and heated tobacco product (HTP) use in the United Arab Emirates, an emerging EC and HTP market: A cross-sectional analysis of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) UAE Survey

Leinberger-Jabari, Andrea; Ahmad, Amar; Lindson, Nicola; Oke, Jason; Hartmann-Boyce, Jamie; Fong, Geoffrey T; El-Shahawy, Omar; Ali, Raghib; Sherman, Scott

Nicotine & tobacco research. 2024 Dec 20;

Cannabis Use, Use Disorder, and Workplace Absenteeism in the U.S., 2021-2022

Yang, Kevin H; Mueller, Letitia; El-Shahawy, Omar; Palamar, Joseph J

American journal of preventive medicine. 2024 Dec; 67(6):803-810

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