Khaled J. Saleh

Saleh was born on September 24, 1964, in Kuwait to Fathiya and Jamal Saleh. The Egyptian derivation of his surname comes from his paternal ancestor, who emigrated from Alexandria, Egypt to Yaffa, Palestine in the 1930s. The family eventually settled in Kuwait after being evacuated in 1948 from their town Salameh during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. In 1966 Saleh emigrated with a number of family members to Canada, where the family eventually settled in Belleville, Ontario where Saleh completed his middle and high school education. Saleh went on to attend the University of Western Ontario on an academic scholarship. During that time he met his wife Lena, whom he married in 1984. The couple resides in Michigan and has three children.^[1]

After completing his medical training at the University of Western Ontario, Saleh completed his postgraduate training in orthopaedic surgery at University of Toronto followed by a fellowship in geriatric orthopaedics at University of Toronto, followed by fellowship training in lower extremity training in lower-extremity reconstruction at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and adult reconstruction at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York^[3]. In 1998, he became a clinical instructor at Weill Cornell Medical College Hospital for Special Surgery and went on to join the faculty in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Minnesota. In 2004, Saleh became the Division Chief of Adult Reconstruction in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Virginia, where he also served as fellowship director^[4].

He later served as a Chair of Orthopedics Surgery at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, before joining the Detroit Medical Center as Executive in Chief of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine^[5]. Saleh completed a master's degree in Health Care Management at the Harvard School of Public Health Executive Program.^{[citation needed]}