{"id":12498,"date":"2018-12-07T11:09:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/?p=12498"},"modified":"2022-12-07T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T19:59:09","slug":"nathalie-saad-emba-2014-and-her-team-deliver-innovation-in-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/2018\/12\/07\/nathalie-saad-emba-2014-and-her-team-deliver-innovation-in-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathalie Saad (EMBA 2014) and her team deliver innovation in health care"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Dr. Nathalie Saad, a 2014 graduate of the McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA program, is Chief Pulmonologist for the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program at Mount Sinai Hospital, and that\u2019s where her instinct for innovation has come to the fore.\u00a0 She\u2019s a firm believer in finding better ways to deliver health care. Better from the patient\u2019s perspective, that is.\u00a0 It\u2019s this patient-centred orientation that drove her to spearhead the development of the innovative Tele-pulmonary Rehabilitation Program at Mount Sinai.<\/p>\n

This program allows patients from throughout the province to benefit from a program to which they would otherwise not have access.\u00a0 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is among the leading causes of death in Quebec, and under 2% of the population has access to pulmonary rehabilitation. Her program\u2019s objective, which is now offered at 8 sites throughout the province, is to bring about long-term change to patients\u2019 habits in order to improve their quality of life. The program is run by an interdisciplinary team, including Dr. Saad as Chief Respirologist, and includes 8 weeks of exercise and education sessions, with periodic follow-ups thereafter. Nathalie\u2019s ambition is to deliver the best care possible to the most people possible, as this program demonstrates. That\u2019s simply who she is.<\/p>\n

The EMBA role in all this?\u00a0 She says it\u2019s been an accelerator for her. The knowledge and approaches she gained from the program have helped her achieve her goals more quickly.\u00a0 One aspect she underlined is, \u201cGetting a fresh point of view from different industries, rather than only speaking to health professionals was key.\u201d So was learning how to communicate and convince those whose approval she needed \u2013 learning how to understand the needs and issues of all stakeholders.<\/p>\n

The Telepulmonary program is just one of Nathalie\u2019s many hats.\u00a0 Dr. Saad embodies the old saying, \u2018if you need something done, ask a busy person\u2019.\u00a0 She was recently elected to the board of directors of the Coll\u00e8ge des m\u00e9decins du Qu\u00e9bec <\/em>for a four year mandate, and was named vice-chair of the board.\u00a0 Nathalie is also a member of the Pulmonary Service team at the Jewish General Hospital, (in addition to her role at Mount Sinai) and Chair for the undergraduate medical education and internal medicine department at the McGill University Faculty of Medicine.\u00a0 We congratulate her on her successes, and look forward to learning about her future innovations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Nathalie Saad, a 2014 graduate of the McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA program, is Chief Pulmonologist for the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program at Mount Sinai Hospital, and that\u2019s where her instinct for innovation has come to the fore.\u00a0 She\u2019s a firm believer in finding better ways to deliver health care. Better from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1561,"featured_media":12499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2371163,758128,2149823,1436539,4],"tags":[2357778,2357777,2357776,166,105,65,3702856,22,2357775,33,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12501,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498\/revisions\/12501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}