
Dr. Ruba Al Wajeeh - MBBS, MSc, CPHQ, CPPS
Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety Expert
Professional Experience:
Dr. Ruba Al Wajeeh brings over fifteen years of demonstrated expertise in healthcare across various practice settings, including acute care hospitals, tertiary hospitals, healthcare centers, and clinics.
She is an accomplished, driven, strategic healthcare executive with extensive progressive experience in operational excellence, quality management, organizational transformation, international accreditation, and patient safety.
She consistently demonstrates the ability to work as a strategic business partner with all levels of corporate governance and frontline staff, creating strategies, operations, and work environments that drive profitability and growth, deliver exceptional patient safety and customer value, and maximize human potential.
Her professional experience ranges from small stand-alone surgical facilities to a healthcare system comprising 30 hospitals and community-based services. This highlights her established ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, manage complex improvement projects, and develop and implement innovative strategies to enhance patient safety, optimize operational efficiency, and achieve excellence in healthcare delivery.
Dr. Ruba specializes in designing and facilitating the implementation of systems frameworks to manage a variety of healthcare administrative functions. These include accreditation planning and progress monitoring; incident report cataloging, investigation, and mitigation; risk register development and updating; infection control program design and monitoring; information security framework design and monitoring; key performance measures selection, definition, and monitoring; employee wellness program design and implementation; training plan development and implementation; personnel records design and updating; clinical documentation audit program development, implementation, and monitoring; employee performance evaluation system design and implementation; healthcare providers’ privileges and competencies framework design and implementation; and documents control system design and implementation, to name a few.
Areas of Expertise
- Expertise in healthcare quality management and systems
- Patient safety, risk management, and infection control
- Project Management, process improvement, service re-design, and performance enhancement
- Hospitals Accreditation and Regulatory Compliance
- Effective Governance for Quality & Patient Safety
- Employee wellness and performance/ productivity management
Former Employers
- Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, UAE
- Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital, Umm Al Quwain, UAE
- Emirates Hospital & Cosmesurge Group, Dubai, UAE
Education
- Master of Science in International Healthcare Management, University of Essex, UK
- Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Dubai Medical College, UAE
- Health Care Leadership - Health Care Economics, Harvard Business School (Online)
- Patient Safety Specialization, The Johns Hopkins University (online)
- Leading Healthcare Quality & Safety, The George Washington University (online)
Professional Memberships and Certifications
- Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ)
- Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS)
Professional Experience:
Dr. Ruba Al Wajeeh brings over fifteen years of demonstrated expertise in healthcare across various practice settings, including acute care hospitals, tertiary hospitals, healthcare centers, and clinics.