Leadership
Dr. Oussama Kayali
Co-founder
Dr. Oussama Kayali is a medical doctor with an MBA in Hospital Management from Danube University, Austria. His career spans health regulation, hospital operations and facility licensing across the UAE.
He has been a surveyor with the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) since 2018, and served as its Middle East representative for ACHS International from 2017 to 2019.
As Projects Manager at Bin Haider Healthcare Services, he led four healthcare projects through design and construction, part of a plan to build an integrated healthcare network across the UAE and key international locations.
Before that, he spent two years as Consultant in the Health Regulation Department of the Dubai Health Authority (DHA). There he led the development of 16 new regulations, standards and guidelines, covering areas including bariatric surgery, oncology, telehealth, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and sleep laboratories. He also created DHA’s Weyak initiative to improve how health facilities are inspected.
Earlier, he was Head of the Regulation Section at DHA for almost four years, until 2013, where he helped build the framework for licensing healthcare professionals and health facilities in Dubai.
At Burjeel
Earlier in his career, he was Operations Director at Burjeel Hospital for Advanced Surgery in Dubai for over two years. He led the hospital’s operations and served on committees that contributed to:
- Excellence in Surgery Services award, 8th Arab Health Innovation & Achievement Awards, January 2015
- Specialty Hospital of the Year, World Health Tourism Congress, August 2014
- Hospital accreditation, January 2015
- Electronic Medical Record (EMR) implementation, with a marked improvement in EMRAM score
Certifications and committees
- Certified in Healthcare Risk Management, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- Lead Assessor, ISO/IEC 17025:2005 laboratory management systems
- Member, Dubai Health Facilities Performance Committee
- Member, Licensing Committee of the Private Division
- Member, Dubai Radiation Protection Committee