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November 9, 2026

The Hospital You Build Before You Build It

A hospital is built twice: once on paper, once in concrete. After commissioning four hospitals, I have learnt that its operating life is largely written before the first brick is laid.

October 10, 2026

AI Should Replace Waiting, Not Doctors: Breast Screening in the Gulf

Most of the conversation about AI in breast cancer is about reading scans better. In the Gulf, the bigger problem comes earlier: too many women are never scanned at all, or are scanned with a tool that was not designed for them.

October 2, 2026

What a Hospital Turnaround Teaches

Turnarounds are not delivered by one leader. They are delivered by hundreds of people who decide, every day, to do the right thing for patients and for each other.

February 16, 2026

From MRI Machines to AI Platforms: The Shift I Saw at WHX Dubai 2026

The biggest change at the region's largest healthcare exhibition was not the venue or the name. It was that the conversation moved from the machines inside the hospital to the intelligence that runs the whole patient journey.

September 13, 2025

Healthcare in 2050: Connected, or Just Digital?

We can connect a surgeon in China to a robot in Italy, yet a patient next door still struggles to reach their doctor. The question for the region is whether we are building a future that is connected, or just digital.

May 11, 2025

What an International Academic Affiliation Should Deliver: Lessons from Cedars-Sinai

An international affiliation is worth only what it changes inside your own hospital. Visiting Cedars-Sinai with my team from The View Hospital showed what a strong academic partnership can deliver, well beyond the name on the door.

February 27, 2025

Closing the Healthcare Workforce Gap Through Medical Education

The world is short of health workers, and traditional medical education is too slow, too costly and too inaccessible to close the gap alone. For hospital leaders, education is also the most underused retention strategy.

November 10, 2023

Leading Multicultural Hospital Teams Fairly

In a Gulf hospital, the team caring for one patient may come from ten countries. Diversity is a strength only if expectations are clear, evaluation is fair, and every person feels part of the same hospital family.

July 1, 2023

Healthcare for 1.8 Million Pilgrims: Lessons from the Hajj

The Hajj is one of the world's great logistical and public health operations. Its lessons in planning, partnership and technology reach far beyond Saudi Arabia.

May 8, 2023

Future-Proofing the Health of Nations

Adoption matters more than invention, partnerships matter more than any single organisation, and a healthy environment is part of public health. Lessons from a panel at Dubai's Museum of the Future.

April 20, 2023

Net-Zero Hospitals in the Gulf Start at Design

Healthcare exists to protect health, yet it is a significant source of the emissions that threaten it. In the Gulf, where hospitals run in extreme heat, the decisions that matter most are made at design.

March 25, 2023

Diabetes Is an Employer's Problem Too

In much of the Gulf, employers fund healthcare through mandatory insurance. That makes chronic disease such as diabetes as much their problem as the hospital's, and partnership the best answer.

December 27, 2022

International Patients Need More Than Treatment

Patients who travel for care judge a hospital on far more than the treatment. Visas, travel, language, family and follow-up at home decide whether the journey felt safe.