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

"Once You're Labeled a Drug User, You Might as Well Stay the F*** Home": Adverse Police Experiences Among People Who Inject Drugs

Trombley, Caitlin; El-Shahawy, Omar; Frank, David; Ompad, Danielle C; Jaiswal, Jessica; Earnshaw, Valerie A; Walters, Suzan

Substance use & misuse. 2025 Dec 03; 1-9

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. 2025 Jul 22; 27(8):1340-1348

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

Environmentally derived subgroups of preadolescents with family history of substance use exhibit distinct patterns of psychopathology and reward-related behaviors: insights from the ABCD study

Ramakrishnan, Srinivasan A; Shaik, Riaz B; Peri, Siddhartha; Adams, Faith; Haas, Shalaila S; Frangou, Sophia; Srinivasan, Shankar; El-Shahawy, Omar; Hammond, Christopher J; Ivanov, Iliyan; Parvaz, Muhammad A

Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry. 2025 Feb; 4:1631474

Acceptability of a Telehealth Smoking Harm Reduction Intervention Using E-cigarettes Among Cigarette Smokers With Opioid Use Disorder: A Qualitative Analysis

El-Shahawy, Omar; Fawole, Adetayo; Kang, Brian; Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen; Braga, Mariana; Hamade, Nada; Doucoure, Mohamed; Cantrell, Jennifer; Sherman, Scott; Shpiegel, Svetlana; Schatz, Daniel; Stevens, Elizabeth R

Substance use : research and treatment. 2025 Sep; 19:29768357251337050

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