Zayna is an applied health futurist helping people and orgs make sense of forces, trends & shifts propelling healthcare to a very different future from the past decades of status quo.

Currently:

1. Health futurist in residence with Deloitte Canada Life Sciences & Healthcare practice, helping clients & teams anchor thinking, plans, strategies, ops to where healthcare is going, instead of where it has been
2. Growth advisor for hospitals & health systems @ Teladoc Health Canada, helping bring the virtual care platform to Canadian health systems to enable a new kind of healthcare experience for patients & clinicians, with more democratized access, better outcomes, greater value
3. Adjunct faculty with University of Toronto Rotman School of Management in the Health Sector Strategy stream. I instruct in health innovation and partnerships in the MBA program, global exec MBA in health and life sciences, and in executive programs with health sector leaders

Historical bio:

From 2018-21 Zayna was the Future Strategist with SE Health [Saint Elizabeth Healthcare], a national social enterprise providing home care, health solutions and education to people where they are and when they need it.

Zayna was Faculty of Singularity University’ Exponential Medicine stream and Singularity University Canada [2016-2021].

In 2017 Zayna was seconded to the REshape Health Innovation Centre 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.

Zayna lead the Health System Innovation platform at MaRS Discovery District, a major innovation hub in Toronto, from 2014 to 2017. At MaRS, Zayna and her team worked with many ecosystem partners to help smooth and accelerate the path to adoption of innovation by health and care systems.

Zayna completed her Ph.D. in biochemistry from University of Toronto (2001), followed by a career in strategy consulting, including as Principal in the health practice of Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Zayna has a B.Sc (Hons) in biochemistry from University of Windsor, where she earned the President’s Medal for top overall graduate (1996) and Board of Governor’s Medal for top graduate in her program.

Zayna speaks proficiently in French and Arabic (and a little Dutch). She resides in Toronto with her husband & 3 children.