Deeb Salem

Cardiologist

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Dr. Deeb N. Salem is currently the Senior Vice President for Academic Integration for Tufts Medicine and Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Salem received his BA and MD from Boston University (six year medical program) in 1968.

 

He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American College of Physicians, and the American College of Chest Physicians. He was the Chairman of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine as well as the Physician-in-Chief at the Tufts Medical Center and the Sheldon M Wolff Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine from 2000 to 2021.

 

Dr. Salem has had a distinguished career as an academic cardiologist. In 1987, he was appointed Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He served as Chief of Cardiology at the Tufts Medical Center from 1987 to 1995. Dr. Salem has been President of the New England Cardiovascular Society.

 

His academic accomplishments include over one hundred and ninety scientific publications. He is recognized as a national expert in coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure. Dr. Salem received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University School of Medicine in 1998, the Distinguished Faculty Award from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1998. In 2007, Dr. Salem was the recipient of the American Heart Association’s Paul Dudley White Lifetime Achievement award. In August of 2007. In 2010 Dr. Salem was awarded the Tufts Medical Center Working Wonders Lifetime Achievement award. In 2021 Dr. Salem received the coveted Tuffs University School of Medicine Dean's Medal.

 

On May 19, 2023 Tuff Medical Center named 35 Kneeland Street, Boston, the Salem Building in honor of the outstanding service and leadership of Deeb N. Salem to the Tuff Medical Center community.