Major Research Interest :

Parasites of medical and veterinary importance and in particular Leishmania and digenetic trematodes of man and domestic animals, namely those causing schistosomiasis, fascioliasis and swimmer’s itch. Also of interest are dipterous insects that act as vectors of disease (i.e. mosquitoes, sandflies, houseflies, tabanids etc…).

 

Professional Experience :

 

-        Teaching Assistant, Department of Tropical Health, American University of Beirut, 1966-1968.

-        Demonstrator and lecturer, University of Jordan, 1968-1969.

-        Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Jordan, Jan. 73-Feb. 79.

-       Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Jordan, February 1979-1984.

-        Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1983-1984.

-       Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Jordan, July 1984- 2002.

-        Chairman, Department of Biological Sciences, 1979-1980.

-        Chairman, Graduate Department of Biological and Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, 1986-1989.

-        Vice Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Jordan, 1989-1990.

-        Dean, Faculty of Science, Applied Science University, 1996-1997.

-        Vice President for Academic Affairs, The Hashemite University, 1998-2001.

 

 

Member , Health Committee, Jordan Scientific Research Council, 1975.

 

Member of the Editorial Board of “Dirasat”, the official journal of the University of Jordan, 1980 and 1981 term.

 

Member , Committee on Environmental Education Curricula, Ministry of Education, 1982 .

 

Member , Organizing Committee , National Conference on Water and Environmental Health , Ministry of Health, 1983 .

 

Member and Chairman, Advisory Committee, Water Research and Study Center, University of Jordan , 1986-1989 .

 

Member , Environment Committee, Higher Council For Science and Technology, 1988-1989 .

 

Chairman, executive committee, The First Pan - Arab Seminar on Leishmaniasis . June, 1981, Amman, Jordan .

 

Secretary General , executive committee, The Second Pan - Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses . November, 1987, Amman, Jordan .

 

Secretary General , executive committee, The Third Pan - Arab Seminar on Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases . October 1989,

                       Amman, Jordan .

 

Secretary General , executive committee, The Fourth Pan - Arab Seminar on Leishmaniasis and Other Zoonoses , November, 1993,

                       Amman, Jordan .

 

Secretary  General , executive committee , The Fifth International and Pan -  Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses, November , 1995 , Amman, Jordan .

 

Principal investigator in a U.S. $ 200,000 research project entitled “Identification, distribution and ecology of the snail fauna of Jordan”. The project (1980-1983) was sponsored by USAID, Ministry of Health and University of Jordan and was carried out in collaboration with Dr. John Burch (University of Michigan) and John Bruce (University of Lowell, Massachusetts).

 

Part-time consultant, Water & Sanitation, UNICEF , Jordan, 1980-1983.

 

Co-investigator and project director of a $ 146.000 research project on the epidemiology of leishmaniasis in Jordan sponsored by the International Development Research Center, Canada. 1990-1994.

Co-Principal investigator of the research project: Environmental solutions to problems caused by arthropods of public health importance in the Jordan Rift Valley, sponsored by USAID-MERC, 1995-2001.

Chairman, Higher Committee on Water Quality. Committee Formed by the Jordanian Cabinet of Ministers. 2000-2002.

 

Consultant to the Ministry of Health on the control of schistosomiasis.

 

WHO short term consultant & temporary advisor.

EHP-CDM consultant , Pest Control / Waste Water .

Regional Counsillor, International Union For The Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 1999-2000.

 

The courses taught :

Undergraduate:   Public Health, General Biology, Human Biology, Microtechniques, Invertebrates, Medical Parasitology (Medical Students), General Parasitology, History of Biological Sciences,

 

Graduate Research Methods, Advanced Parasitology, and Selected Topics in Parasitology and Medical Entomology.

 

Supervision of the research work of twelve graduate (M.Sc. level) students, and member of some 20 examination committees of research theses of graduate students.

 

Membership in International Societies:

 

SIGMA XI ; 1972-1976  .

American Society of Parasitologists

National Environmental Health Association , USA

American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, USA.

Entomological Society of America ; 1969-1976

 

Technical Papers  .

 

1.                    Environmental Conditions in Ketteh and Burma Villages, Jarash District. . A study presented to UNICEF and Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and the Environment. 1981 .

 

2.                    Environmental Conditions in Muleih and Lib Villages, Madaba District. A study presented to UNICEF and the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and the Environment. 1983 .

 

3.                    Re-evaluation of the Environmental Conditions in Ketteh and Burma villages , Jarash District. A study presented to UNICEF and the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and the Environment. 1986 .

 

4.                    Status of Pollution in Jordan . A paper presented to a regional     workshop on Environmental Education in The Arab World. ALECSO, Amman-Jordan, 1986.

 

5.                    The Environment and Population in the Arab World. Presented in the Regional Training Workshop in Population Education, UNESCO Regional office, Amman, 1988.

 

6.                   Saliba, E.K., 1997. Status of Intestinal Parasitic Infections in      Lebanon. Assignment Report, WHO, EM/CID/002/E/R/01.98/22. 13 pp.

 

7.               Saliba, E.K., A. Barhoum and A. Batieha. Development and    Implementation of a Pest Control Strategy for the Hashimiyya Area in Jordan. Activity Report No. 69. June 1999 . Environmental Health Project. 53 pp.

 

Publications-Abstracts :

1-      Saliba, E.K., A. Ajlouni and M. Disi: Incidence of Echinococcus granulosus in dogs of Jordan. The Lebanese Association for the Advancement of Science. Beirut, April, 1981 .

2-      Saliba, E.K. Leishmaniases in Jordan, A Review. The First Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniasis. Amman, 1981.

3-      Saliba, E.K. and M.R. Tawfiq. Recent studies on Bulinus truncatus snails in Jordan . The Second Arab Scientific Conference of Biological Sciences, Fez, Morocco, 1982 .

4-      Saliba, E.K. Water, Development and Disease. Water Seminar, The University of Jordan, Amman , 1982 .

5-      Saliba, E.K. Bulinus truncatus in Jordan. The 14th Seminar of Tropical Medicine, Seoul, Korea, 1983 .

6-      Ayed, R. and E. Saliba . Susceptibility of Jordanian Bulinus truncatus snails to infection with Schistosoma haematobium from Egypt. The Third Arab Scientific Conference of Biological Sciences, Amman, 1984 .

7-      Saliba , E.K., G.I.Higashi, O.Y. Oumeish and J.A. Yates. Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Jordan : Biochemical identification of human and Psammomys obesus isolates as Leishmania major. The Thirty Three annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Baltimore, U.S.A.,1984 .

8-      Yates, J.A., E.K. Saliba, M.Othman and G.I.Higashi. The inbred gerbil Meriones unguiculatus as a natural model host for Leishmania major. Thirty Four annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , Miami, U.S.A., 1985 .

9-      Saliba, E.K., A.M. Disi, R.E.Ayed and O.Y.Oumeish. Psammomys obesus the major reservoir host of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Jordan. The Fourth Arab Scientific Conference of Biological Sciences. Tunis, 1986.

10-     Oumeish, O. & E. Saliba. Epidemiology of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Jordan. The Second Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. Amman, 1987 .

11-     Saliba, E.K., A.M.Disi, R.E.Ayed and O.Y. Oumeish. Studies on the animal reservoir of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Jordan. The Second Pan-Arab Seminar on leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. Amman, 1987 .

12-     Saliba, E. & M. Tawfiq. On the autochthonous cases of urinary schistosomiasis in Jordan. The Second Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. Amman, 1987 .

13-     Saliba, E. & M. Tawfiq. Bulinus truncatus snails in Jordan, an update . The Second Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. Amman, 1987.

14-     Khoury, S.A. E .Saliba & O.Y. Oumeish. Epidemiology of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Jordan. The Third Pan-Arab Seminar on Zoonotic Parasitic Diseases. Amman, 1989 .

15-     Saliba, E.K., Hydatidosis in Jordan, a review. Proceedings of the Third Pan-Arab Seminar on Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases. Amman, 1989, 107-108 .

16-     Saliba, E.K., A.Disi, R.Ayed & O.Y. Oumeish. Rodents and cutaneous leishmaniasis in Jordan. The Sixth Zagazig International Conference on Dermatology and Venereology. Cairo, 1990 .

17-     Khoury, S., E. Saliba & O.Y. Oumeish. The epidemiology of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Jordan. Recent developments. International Workshop of Leishmaniasis Control Strategies, Merida, Mexico, November 1991 .

18-     Mosleh, I., E. Saliba, M. Al-Kateeb, Z.Bisharat, O.Oumeish & W. Bitar. Serodiagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Jordan using IFAT ELISA. The Third Congress of Pan-Arab League of Dermatologists. Nov. 2-5, 1992, Damascus, Syria, p 24 .

19-     Janini, R., E. Saliba. & S. Kamhawi. Population dynamics of leishmaniasis : The central Jordan Valley . The Fourth International and Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. Nov. 23-25, 1993, Amman, Jordan .

20-     Saliba , E., R. Janini, S. Kamhawi, S. Khoury, O.Oumeish & S. Adwan. Enzymatic  characterization of Leishmania  isolates obtained from Phlebotomus papatasi as Leishmania major . The Fourth International and Pan-Arab . Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. Nov. 23-25, 1993, Amman, Jordan .

21-     Saliba, E., H. Al-Younes, A. Disi & O.Oumeish. Susceptibility of Meriones libycus (Rodentia:Cricetidae) to experimental infection with Leishmania major (Kinetoplastida:Trypanosomatida) . The Fourth International and Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. Nov. 23-25, 1993, Amman,Jordan .

22-     Al-Younes, H., E. Saliba, M.Al-Khateeb, S. Khoury & M. Othman. Humoral response to Leishmania major (Kinetoplastida:Trypanosmatidae) in experimentally-infected Meriones libycus (Rodentia:Cricetidae). The Fourth International and Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. Nov. 23-25, 1993, Amman, Jordan .

23-     Khoury, S. , E. Saliba & O.Oumeish. The epidemiology of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Jordan, 1983-1992 : A preliminary report. The Fourth International and Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. Nov. 23-25, 1993, Amman,Jordan .

24-     Bisharat, Z., E. Saliba, O.Oumeish and N.Saleh. The first cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania tropica in Jordan. The Fourth International and Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. Nov. 23-25, 1993, Amman, Jordan.

25-     Saleh, N., E. Saliba, S.Khoury & O.Oumeish. Isoenzymatic Characterization of Leishmania isolates obtained from cutaneous leishmaniases cases in Jordan. The Fourth International and Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. Nov. 23-25, 1993, Amman,Jordan .

26-     Khouri-Bulos, N. & E. Saliba. Visceral leishmaniasis in an indigenous Jordanian infant. The Fourth International and Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. Nov. 23-25, 1993, Amman,Jordan .

27-     Saliba, E., N.Saleh, Z.Bisharat, O.Oumeish and S.Khoury, 1994. Further studies on cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania tropica in Jordan. The Eighth Zagazig International Conference on Dermatology and Venereology, Cairo, Egypt, 1994, p 97.

28-     Saliba, E., Z.Bisharat, O.Oumeish, S.Khoury, N.Saleh & R.Al-Ouran. The epidemiology of cutaneous leishmaniasis due Leishmania tropica in Jordan: a preliminary report. VIII International Congress of Parasitology . Izmir, Turkey, 1994 .

29-     Qubain, H.I & E.K.Saliba . A visceral leishmaniasis case from Bal’a, The West Bank. The Fifth International and Pan-Arab Seminar On Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. 11-13 Nov. 1995,Amman,Jordan p 37 .

30-     Shubeilat, t., M.Nseirat, H.Ababneh, N.Kamal, & E.K.Saliba. An Indigenous case of visceral leishmaniasis from Halawa, Ajloun Governorate, Jordan. The Fifth International and Pan-Arab Seminar On leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. 11-13 Nov. 1995, Amman,Jordan, p37 .

31-     Saliba, E., N.Saleh, R.Oran, O.Y.Oumeish, O.Bataineh, S.Khoury, J.Dedet & F.Pratlong. Enzymatic variations in Leishmania major isolated from human, Psammomys obesus and Phlebotomus papatasi from Jordan. The Fifth International and Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. 11-13 Nov. 1995, Amman, Jordan, p 41.

32-     Saliba, E., O.Y.Oumeish, Z.Bisharat, N.Saleh, J.Dedet & F. Pratlong. Enzymatic variations in Leishmania tropica isolated from Jordanian patients. The Fifth International and Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. 11-13 Nov. 1995, Amman, Jordan, p42.

33-     Saliba, E.K., R.Al-Oran, O.Y.Oumeish, N.Saleh, H.Al-Younes, M.Al-Jefout & A. Sabayleh. Cutaneous leishmaniases in Tafieleh governorate, Southern Jordan. The Fifth International and Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. 11-13 Nov. 1995, Amman, Jordan. P44.

34-     Saliba, E., N.Saleh, O.Y.Oumeish &  S.Khoury . Sand fly fauna of Eira-Yarka, a focus for Leishmania tropica in Jordan. The Fifth International and Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses 11-13. Nov. 1995, Amman, Jordan, p47.

35-     Saliba, E.K., M.R. Tawfiq, S. Kharabsheh, & J.Rahamneh. Urinary schistosomiasis contracted from an irrigation pool in Ramah, Southern Jordan Valley. The Fifth International and Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. 11-13 Nov., 1995, Amman,Jordan,p50 .

36-     Saliba, E.K., R.Al-Oran & H.Al-Younes. Preliminary analysis of the ecology of Bulinus truncatus snail in Seil Al-Hasa, Karak Governorate, Jordan. The Fifth International and Pan-Arab Seminar on Leishmaniases and Other Zoonoses. 11-13 Nov., 1995, Amman, Jordan, p51.

37-     Khoury, S., E.K.Saliba O.Y.Oumeish & M.R. Tawfiq. Incidence and prevalence of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Jordan: 1983-1992. The VII Pan African Congress of Dermatology, Cairo-Egypt, 1-5 Dec. 1995, p77.

38-     Saliba, E.K., O.Y.Oumeish & S. Khoury.  A comprehensive look at the epidemiology of cutanenous leishmaniasis in Jordan. The Fourth Asian Dermatological Congress. 13-15 Jan., Dubai, U.A.E., p26.

39-     Oumeish, O.Y. & E.K.Saliba. The first case of cutaneous larva migrans reported in Jordan. The 9th Zagazig International Conference of Dermatology and Venereology. Cairo, Egypt, 1996.

40-     Saliba, E.K., Dedet, J., Saleh, N., Pratlong, f., Oumeish, O.Y., Al-Oran, R., Batayneh, O. & Khoury, S. Enzymic characterization of Jordanian Leishmania .  First World Congress on Leishmaniosis , Istanbul. Acta Parasitologica Turcica, Vol. 21, Supplement 1; 1997, p135.

41-     Saliba, E.K., & O.Y.Oumeish. Current status of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Arab World. The Second International Conference for Medical and Surgical Dermatology and the Lazer. 17-19 November 1997, Amman, Jordan, p59.

42-        Batieha, A., E.K. Saliba, R. Graham and P. Wijeyaratni. A preliminary study on sand fly fever in Jordan: A cause for concern. Third International Symposium on Phlebotomine Sandflies . 23-27 August, 1999, Montpellier, France, pO55 .

 

43- Saliba, E.K., F. Pratlong, N. Saleh, O. Oumeish, O. Batayneh         R. Al-Ouran and J.P. Dedet. Enzymatic  variation of     Leishmania tropica from Jordan. First International Seminar on Leishmaniasis  in Syria. Oct 31-Nov 2, 2001, Damascus, Syria.

 

44-  Saliba, E.K. and O.Y. Oumeish. Vectors and Reservoirs of       Cutaneous Leishmaniasis. 20^th World Congress of Dermatology. 1-5 July, 2002. Paris, France.   

 

Publications-Journal Articles:

 

1-        Saliba, E.K., G.K. Sweatman and N. S. Kawar. 1971 . Effect of ronnel on the respiration rate of Ornithodoros savagnyi ticks at different temperatures after topical application or oral ingestion. J. Med. Ent. 8:73-83  .

 

2-        Saliba, E.K., G.R. Defoliart, T.M.Yuill & R.P. Hanson. 1973. Laboratory transmission of Wisconsin isolates of a Cache Valley-like virus by mosquitoes. J.Med. Ent. 10:470-476  .

 

3-        Underfer, J.L. & E.K. Saliba . 1975. Enviro. Conditions in the Mid East. Env. Educ. Rep. (January issue), pp 10 & 12 .

 

4.         Saliba, E.K. & J.L.Underfer. 1985 . Mid East Enviro. Education. Env. Educ. Rep. (February issue) p. 12.

 

5-        Saliba, E.K., A. Masa’deh & M. Reda. 1976. First record of Bulinus truncatus (Audouin) in Jordan . Ann. Trop. Med. & Parasitol. 70:369-370  .

 

6-        Saliba, E.K. 1977 . A brevifurcate schistosome cercaria from Lymnaea auricularia snails in the Azraq Oasis, Jordan.

           Jordan Med. J. 12: 52-56  .

 

7-        Saliba, E.K. 1977. Records of Tabanidae from Azraq Oasis, Jordan. J. Med. Ent. 14:468 .

 

8-        Ismail, N.S. E.K. Saliba & R. G. Lutfy. 1977. Fascioliasis in Azraq Oasis, Jordan. I. Incidence and degree of infection in cows and buffaloes. Acta Parasitol. Polonica. XXV : 43-50 .

 

9-        Saliba, E.K., R.G. Lutfy and N.S. Isamil . 1977. Fascioliasis in Azraq Oasis