About
Priority Health
The Priority Health Academy is an organization that was established to serve a need in healthcare. Current mainstream allopathic medicine is suffering from many shortcomings. Clinician burnout, understaffing, crowded waiting rooms, delays in specialized care, unsafe surgical and pharmaceutical interventions, and suboptimal care. The answer came when Dr. Saleeby realized that need back in the late 1990s. In 2013 with the founding of Carolina Holistic Medicine clinics and the current model of modified and reformed functional medicine, the basic model took shape. In 2018 the Priority Health Academy was born with the first of several annual symposiums. Since 2020 lectures have been archived on the Internet. Now there is a playbook for replicating this model in all fifty states and abroad. In 2024 the Priority Health Academy became a non-profit ministry (508c1A) named Priority Health Healing Ministry. For 2025 the virtual teaching and subinternships will continue on a larger scale. We are setting the pace for post-graduate education in our model of healthcare (reformed-Functional Medicine).
For those seeking to exit the conundrum that is our current healthcare system for one that has better work-life balance, more professional satisfaction and ultimately sustainability and profitability, we have you covered. Our organization provides practice building services from top to bottom. We also provide excellent affordable educational services for becoming proficient in functional and holistic medicine. Our organization provides personalized and customized licensing agreements so you can move forward.
Our mission statement is to Restructure Healthcare Delivery in a Parallel/Perpendicular Healthcare System
Our core values are: Integrity, Truth, Transparency, Respect and Dependability.
PHA 2025
Chris Jackman NP
Chris started off his medical career working as a Registered Nurse in a Surgical ICU in Cleveland, OH. He spent two years in the ICU caring for the sickest post-surgical patients on a day-to-day basis. After two years, he decided to make a change and transitioned into working in the operating room. Here, he was able to use the skills he learned taking care of post-op surgical patients, but now caring for them during their operation and working more closely with the surgeons. It was here that he realized he had a passion for cardiac surgery. After almost a decade in the operating room as an RN, Chris received his Nurse Practitioner degree and began working with the Cleveland Clinic. Chris worked both in the operating room assisting surgeons in open-heart surgeries and thoracic surgeries, as well as caring for the patients after surgery and after they were discharged. Chris is proud of his work in cardiothoracic surgery with the Cleveland Clinic, but made a family decision to move from Cleveland, OH to Charleston, SC.
After moving to Charleston, Chris decided that he did not want to continue to work within the box created by Western medicine and believed he could help more people and truly change healthcare by working in functional medicine. Chris met Dr. Saleeby and, with his mentorship, worked to become a very well-rounded functional provider. In 2022, Chris became a full-time provider at Carolina Holistic Medicine, working out of the Mount Pleasant office. He has since become the Chief Operating Officer with CHM and the lead Provider. He currently splits his time between the Murrells Inlet office and the Mount Pleasant office, and also sees out-of-state patients. He is functional medicine certified by the Priority Health Academy, a functional medicine academy started by Dr. Saleeby. Chris was recently inducted into the Marquis Who’sWho 2025 as an honored listee provider. Please contact us if you are interested in seeing Chris at either location or via telemed.
Dr. Yusuf (JP) Saleeby, MD
Dr. Yusuf (JP) Saleeby, MD is a functional medicine specialist with an office near Myrtle Beach in Murrells Inlet, SC and in Charleston (Mt. Pleasant), SC and has been practicing for three decades. He graduated from Medical College of Georgia School Of Medicine in 1991 and specializes in functional medicine, internal medicine, and more. He is accompanied by highly trained and certified Advanced Providers (AP / FNP/ PA) that help service all patient needs at the offices. See bio on Mr. Christopher Jackman, FNP-BC, PHA-BC, CTP
He pursued a career in emergency medicine (EM) for almost two decades. During his career in medicine held posts in occupational medicine (DOD) and Urgent Care and Family Medicine. Currently, he practices, directs Integrative & Functional Medicine at Carolina Holistic Medicine with sites in Charleston and Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. CHM has a virtual presence with Telemedicine in the region.
Retiring from the Emergency Department in 2013, and after serving as past medical director for the South Carolina Urban Search & Rescue Task Force-1, his focus is now
on Functional Holistic and Integrative Medicine, research and development of healthcare delivery models and healthcare policy. Read more about Dr. Yusuf Saleeby.