Dr. Zayna Khayat

Disclosure

Dr. Zayna Khayat is adjunct faculty and Executive in Residence with the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. She instructs in various programs including the health sector strategy MBA stream, the global executive MBA in healthcare and life sciences, and executive education programs. She is also a member of the School’s Healthcare and Life Sciences Advisory Board. Dr. Khayat is the health futurist in residence with the healthcare and life sciences practice of Deloitte in Canada and is an advisor to various companies, organizations, governments and initiatives including virtual care company Teladoc Health, workforce startup Kudos, Public Health Agency of Canada, Novartis Canada, and Canadian Drug Agency.

Dr. Khayat was previously the Future Strategist with SE Health [Saint Elizabeth Healthcare], a national social enterprise in home care and aging, where she lead the Futures team. With her colleagues at SE Health, she co-authored the book Future of Aging. In 2017 Dr. Khayat was seconded to the Health Innovation Lab at Radboud university medical centre in the Netherlands as their “Innovation Sherpa in Chief”, working on various initiatives to strengthen the Dutch health innovation ecosystem. She co-founded the Dutch Ministry of Health’s Health Innovation School and continues to serves as faculty across 6 regional cohorts each year. Dr. Khayat lead the Health System Innovation platform at MaRS Discovery District, a major innovation hub in Toronto, from 2014 to 2017. At MaRS, she and her team worked with many ecosystem partners to help smooth and accelerate the path to adoption of innovation by health and care systems. Dr. Khayat completed her Ph.D. in the cell biology of diabetes with the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine (2001), followed by a career in strategy consulting, including as Principal in the health practice of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) from 2001-2010. She has a B.Sc (Hons) in biochemistry from University of Windsor, where she earned the President's Medal for top graduate (1996) and Board of Governor's Medal for top graduate in her program. Dr. Khayat speaks proficiently in French and Arabic (and a little Dutch). She resides in Toronto with her husband & 3 children.