Dr. Saleeby is a 1991 graduate from the Medical College of Georgia. Upon completion of post-graduate training at East Carolina University School of Medicine in Greenville, North Carolina, he pursued a career in emergency medicine. Dr. Saleeby is licensed in the states of Georgia, North & South Carolina, and Virginia. He held posts in occupational medicine (DOD) and Emergency Medicine for a 20-year career in that field. Currently, he practices wellness and preventive medicine and directs Priority Health Carolinas.
He launching PHC365 a telemedicine & house-call age-management practice serving North and South Carolina in 2014, spawned from his practice in Murrells Inlet, SC.
Retiring from the Emergency Department in 2013, he has also served as past medical director for the South Carolina Urban Search & Rescue Task Force-1. He is a member of ILADS, an organization that treats Lyme disease and associated tick-borne chronic illness. He has also been a member of A4M, ACAM and the American Telehealth Association. www.PHC365.com
Dr. Saleeby sits on the medical advisory board for both the Aerobic & Fitness Association of America, and Beachbody (P90X fame). During the past decade he has formulated original sports enhancement supplements for a number of companies. He created and developed a direct access lab testing site for the general public (eStatLabs.com) and has been involved in a number of telehealth ventures.
In 2006 Dr. Saleeby authored a book on specialty medicinal herbs entitled: “Wonder Herbs: A Guide to Three Adaptogens” (Xlibris, 2006) and is a featured speaker on nutrition and adaptogen herbs in the region. He is a contributing editor for American Fitness magazine, and has contributed a chapter in the Life Extension Foundation’s 5th Edition Disease Prevention & Treatment tome (2013). Dr. Saleeby recently authored a chapter in a new book on Hypothyroidism (Stop the Thyroid Madness (2014). Dr. Saleeby also received his Press Credentials as a journalist/writer for AMD in early 2013.
As a medical historian, with an interest in the Am. Civil War, (a member of the Society of Civil War Surgeons, and National Museum of Civil War Medicine), it gives him the opportunity to lectures on medicine & surgery during the “War between the States” and physician luminaries of the time. He lectures on Dr. Hunter H. McGuire (CSA), Dr. Simon Baruch (CSA), Dr. Joseph Letterman (USA) and Dr. Frances P. Porcher (CSA). Dr. Saleeby has a collection of medical antiques and books dating c.100 AD through the mid-1950’s.
A competitive swimmer in college, he tried his hand at Luge in Lake Placid under the coaching of US National Team athletes for a couple of years; he enjoyed several years training with Team Savannah Olympic Lifting team and competed in State & National Masters Olympic Style Weightlifting & the Georgia Olympic Games in the mid-2000’s, achieving podium finishes. He had the opportunity to oar (row) a Greek Trireme (replica of a 120-foot ancient warship) on the Aegean Sea and on the Thames River in London in the early 1990's as part of an American contingent of rowers, he also served as the crews assistant medical officer. He enjoys his patients and practice of integrative medicine, educating them to be self-reliant and enjoy many healthy disease-free years.
