Dr. Salmon received his OD and PhD degrees from Indiana University and completed a residency at Northeastern State University (NSU).

He teaches second, third and fourth year optometry students monocular visual perception, visual optics, research methodology and the one-year research project sequence. He also supervises optometry students in clinic.

Dr. Salmon's research interests include aberrometry, contact lens optics, optics of the eye and visual perception. He is the author of three book chapters and numerous scientific articles, and speaks at professional meetings in the United States and Japan. He reviews articles for over 10 medical or scientific journals.

Dr. Salmon is the faculty sponsor of JNSU (Japanese student's association at NSU), Celsior (NSU's award-winning Japanese hip-hop dance team), and the Fellowship of Christian Optometrists. He is actively involved in church, Bible-based discipleship ministries and is a retired Army optometry officer. Other interests include Japanese studies, soccer, conditioning, weight lifting and Mac computers.