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Salem
Salem
May 16, a disciplinary panel of the Texas Medical Board (TMB) temporarily suspended, without notice and effective immediately, the Texas medical license of Dr. Salem A. Salem, M.D., determining the Beaumont area doctor’s continual practice of medicine poses a threat to public welfare.
According to TMB, a disciplinary panel found that Salem is suffering from an impairment that interferes with his ability to safely practice. Salem had previously been issued a protective order, finding that he committed family violence and that the order was necessary to prevent future family violence against the victim, a fellow doctor practicing at the same Beaumont hospital.
Additionally, Salem submitted false information to TMB on a renewal application, the board found.
A temporary suspension hearing, with notice, will be held as soon as practicable with 10 days’ notice to Salem, unless he waives the hearing, TMB reported. The temporary suspension remains in place until TMB takes further action.
Salem, charged with felony assault in Jefferson County for “impeding the breathing” of his wife while threatening to kill her in front of the couple’s children, appeared before Judge Raquel West to answer the allegations on numerous occasions since the Nov. 5, 2023, police report.
“While he was overseas,” the alleged victim reported, she reported the assault to police. “While he was there, I felt safe because he was not in the country.”
Upon Salem’s return, she said, “I felt not safe, and I was scared of what was going to happen to me or the children.”
The assault, the victim said, was captured on video from home security video surveillance mounted on the ceilings. “I’m going to kill you,” Salem allegedly told his wife in front of their children as recorded on video.
“He’s been aggressive to me before,” the victim advised the court, asking for Salem to be monitored by GPS to prevent further harm to her or the couple’s children. “I’m very afraid.”
Salem’s attorney Tom Kelley said the couple, both “Type A, professional people,” have allowed a family dissolution to bleed over into criminal court.
“It doesn’t seem necessary in his case,” Kelley argued of the need for a GPS device, before alerting the judge that the defendant was exploring options of employment in Dubai, considerably stationed outside of the court’s jurisdiction.
At his most recent court appearance in West’s court, the Jefferson County judge allowed for Salem to leave the country to work abroad as a doctor while the felony case continues to be set off amid requests from the defense.