Shada Alsalamah
VP, mHealth Solutions, AnmarIT. Visiting Scholar, Media Lab, MIT. Assitant Professor, King Saud University.
Shada Alsalamah is an Assistant Professor of Healthcare Information Systems Security at the College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Media Lab, MIT, USA, joining Prof. Alex “Sandy” Pentland's Human Dynamics research group. In 2017, she founded the mHealth Lab and since then she has become Vice President, mHealth Solutions Division, AnmarIT, Saudi Arabia. In 2017, she co-founded CIAG and co-organised with its members the first information security summer school in Saudi Arabia that was well-received. Since 2015, Dr. Alsalamah has been consulting for the Centre of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA), KSU, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and in 2016 she established a Female Chapter of CoEIA that serves as the first information security entity in the region that involves women. In 2015, she received a PhD degree in Healthcare Information Systems' Security and Privacy, and an MSc degree in 2010 in Strategic Information Systems with Information Assurance from the School of Computer Science & Informatics at Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Dr. Alsalamah is a member of the editorial review board of a number of international journals and has been a keynote speaker, presenter, and panellist at a number of international events, including Big Ideas at Spotlight Health, Aspen Ideas Festival, Martha's Vinyard Crypto Symposium, the World Bank, Misk Talk in Los Angeles, and Blockchain in Healthcare West in San Francisco, Winter Youth Assembly at the United Nations, and the Science Collaboration Symposium on Cyber Security in Manchester. Finally, through her work, Dr. Alsalamah contributes to the global healthcare sector modernization movement by developing secure, smart, mobile, and intelligent solutions for emerging healthcare delivery models using cutting-edge technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and Open Algorithms.