Dr. Asem Saleh is a vascular surgeon based in Ontario and a recognized voice in amputation prevention and value-based vascular care. He completed his residency in Vascular Surgery at McMaster University and undertook advanced endovascular training in Nuremberg, Germany, focused on complex arterial disease. He practises at Humber River Hospital, serves as Medical Director at North Toronto Vascular, and is a lecturer at the University of Toronto.

His clinical focus is lower limb preservation and lower extremity revascularization, where he has seen first-hand how often amputation is the downstream cost of fragmented access and delayed intervention. That conviction — that a large share of amputations are preventable with continuity, early specialist access, and coordinated care — is the founding insight behind Own Health. His leadership in the field was recognized when he was featured in Abbott's global CLEAR campaign for Peripheral Artery Disease awareness.

As CEO, Dr. Saleh translates that thesis into infrastructure: standardized escalation pathways, timely vascular assessment, and decision-support tools that connect hospitals, community clinicians, and patients into a single accountable system.