Christina
Salama
,
PhD
About
Dr. Salama is a pediatric neuropsychologist, licensed in Maryland. She initially joined the Kennedy Krieger Institute as a pediatric neuropsychologist in 2017. She then took a brief hiatus to teach medical students in the Caribbean and Psychology graduate students at Loyola University of Maryland. She returned to Kennedy Krieger Institute in 2024 and currently sees patients with a wide variety of medical and neurodevelopmental conditions, from early childhood through adulthood, in the Genetic and Congenital Disorders Clinic. She also serves as one of the attending neuropsychologists in the Synaptopathies and Batten Disease multidisciplinary clinics.
Dr. Salama speaks Arabic and has a special interest in working with Arabic-speaking and other multilingual patients and their families.
Education
Dr. Salama graduated from St. Mary’s College of Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and art history. She earned her master’s and doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in Clinical Neuropsychology from Georgia State University. Dr. Salama completed her doctoral internship in Neuropsychology and Pediatric Consultation and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Neuropsychology at Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.