Dr. Saleem received a post-Ph.D. training in Stroke research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. After completing a stroke fellowshiin the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins, he worked as a staff scientist at Neuroscience and Aging Research Center at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA. In 2017, he became a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ. Dr. Saleem has published extensively and has presented his work internationally at numerous conferences and symposia. He is a member of American Heart Association and the Society for Neuroscience.