Biography
Luma Bashmi, MA, MA, FHEA is in her third year of doctoral candidacy in the Department of Psychiatry and Cambridge Public Health. She is focusing on mental health and wellbeing among Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan by applying the IC-ADAPT framework, and looking more widely at mental health in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region.
Luma is a lecturer in psychology in Bahrain, Fulbright Scholar, and the co-founder and director of a mental health support non-profit foundation in Lebanon, “Elaa Beirut”. Elaa Beirut was founded in response to the 2020 Beirut port explosion, socioeconomic crisis, and pandemic-related mental health and psychosocial distress. With an international network of 30 mental healthcare providers, the non-profit foundation provided over 200 therapy and training sessions to 44 individuals and NGOs. She was the former Chairperson of the Institutional Review Board and Head of Scientific Research & Development at King Hamad University Hospital (Bahrain).
Publications
BOOK CHAPTERS
1. Bashmi, L. et al. (2023) 'The Biopsychosocial Model of Evaluation and Treatment in Psychiatry.' In: IsHak, W.W. (eds) Atlas of Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15401-0_3
2. Bashmi, L. & IsHak, W.W. (2020) 'Wellness in cancer and neoplastic diseases.' In W. IsHak (Ed.), The Handbook of Wellness Medicine (pp. 225-236). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108650182.018
JOURNAL ARTICLES, ACADEMIC REPORTS, POSTERS & DISSERTATIONS
3. Bashmi, L., Kuhn, I., Silove, D., Brayne, C., & Boyd-MacMillan, E. (2023) 'A systematic review of MHPSS interventions targeting non-clinical Arabic-speaking refugees and/or displaced populations in the MENA region.' PROSPERO 2023 CRD42023421057. Available from: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42023421057
4. Coutts A.P., Deakin, S., Pochard, D., …., Bashmi, L., Fouad, F.M. and Sullivan, R. (2023) Mental health in a migration crisis: designing front-line services for refugees, asylum seekers and local populations at-risk in the United Kingdom. University of Cambridge Centre for Business Research. Available online: https://www.cbr.cam.ac.uk/insight/2023/humanising-the-migration-crisis/
5. Bashmi, L., Kuhn, I., Silove, D., Brayne, C., & Boyd-MacMillan, E. (2023, November) A systematic review of MHPSS interventions targeting non-clinical Arabic-speaking refugees and/or displaced populations in the MENA region. Poster session presented at the Cambridge Public Health Showcase 2023, Cambridge, England.
6. Abuzeyad F, Bashmi L, et al. (2023) 'Burnout and Stress Among Residents in 4 Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries Using the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) and Stress Overload Scale-Short Form (SOS-S).' Education in Medicine Journal. (early view).
7. Bashmi, L., Alnashmi, H., et al. (2022). 'Psychological impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare Workers in King Hamad University Hospital, Kingdom of Bahrain.' Journal of the Bahrain Medical Society 34 (2): 25-39. https://doi.org/10.26715/jbms.34_2022_2_4
8. Abuzeyad, F.H., Al Qasem, L., Bashmi, L. et al. (2022) 'Women’s contribution to medicine in Bahrain: leadership and workforce.' Hum Resour Health 20, 67. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-022-00762-9
9. Abuzeyad, F., Bashmi, L., Das, P., et al. (2021) 'Burnout and stress among emergency physicians in the Kingdom of Bahrain.' Saudi Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2(2):001-010. https://doi.org/10.24911/SJEMed/72-1622453157
10. Bashmi, L. & Amirkhan, J. (2018) 'Constructing an Arabic language version of the Stress Overload Scale (SOS).' Arab Journal of Psychology 5:167-206. (Based on MA Dissertation, Stress & Coping Lab, California State University Long Beach, California, USA).
11. Dang J, Bashmi L, Meeneghan S, White J, Hedrick R, Djurovic J, Vanle B, Nguyen D, Almendarez J, Ravets P, Gohar Y, Hanna Y, Danovitch I, IsHak WW. (2018) 'The efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions on depressive symptoms and quality of life: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials.' OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine 3(2):1-27. doi:10.21926/obm.icm.1802011
12. Vanle, B. Olcott, W., Jimenez, J., Bashmi, L., Danovitch, I. & IsHak, WW. (2018) 'NMDA antagonists for treating the non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease.' Translational Psychiatry, 8, 117. doi:10.1038/s41398-018-0162-2.
13. Steiner, A. J., Recacho, J., Vanle, B., Dang, J., Wright, S. M., Miller, J. S., Kauzor, K., Reid, M., Bashmi, L., Mirocha, J., Danovitch, I., & IsHak, W. W. (2017) 'Quality of life, functioning, and depressive symptom severity in older adults with major depressive disorder treated with citalopram in the STAR*D study.' The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 78(7), 897–903. doi:10.4088/jcp.16m11335
14. Logan, C., Bashmi, L., Vu, J., & Amirkhan, J. (2017, April) The role of stress overload in ethnic health disparities. Poster session presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Sacramento, CA.