Saleem Islam MD, MPH

Saleem Islam, M.D., M.P.H., is an associate professor of surgery and pediatrics and director of pediatric minimally invasive surgery in the University of Florida's College of Medicine. He also is the associate medical director of the pediatric integrated care system (PediCare) in the department of pediatrics at UF and program director of the pediatric surgery fellowship program in the department of surgery at UF.

Dr. Islam earned his medical degree from Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan in 1992 and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Massachusetts, where he also became chief resident. He then became a research fellow in the pediatric surgery laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School from 1996-1998 and completed his pediatric surgery fellowship at the University of Michigan in 2003.