A career built inside the mechanics of healthcare performance.

Dr. Walid Elsayes is a senior healthcare operations and transformation executive with more than 22 years of leadership across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt — operating at COO, Hospital Director, and Regional Director levels across hospital groups, specialty hospitals, multi-site provider organizations, and national health advisory programs.

He is currently Chief Operating Officer of a premium surgical specialty hospital in Dubai. His earlier mandates include hospital group advisory and operational-excellence leadership in Riyadh, chief operating roles in Dubai's competitive private-hospital market, the end-to-end commissioning of three new hospital towers in Dubai, regional multi-site leadership in Egypt, and a five-year advisory mandate at King Saud Medical City — Saudi Arabia's largest public hospital — covering institutional transformation, clinical performance, and national health program implementation.

Selected achievements across those mandates include eliminating a 4,000-case surgical backlog in under twelve months; launching a national physician productivity programme under the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia; co-designing a national GP training programme with a UK National Health Service training partner, in support of Egypt's Universal Health Insurance rollout; and leading post-acquisition integration and performance recovery across multi-hospital groups.

He began his career as a physician. That origin still shapes the leadership lens: real transformation happens when clinical priorities, operational performance, patient experience, quality, financial discipline, and technology are treated as one operating system — not separate agendas.

Alongside executive roles, Dr. Walid teaches executive education in healthcare management and operational excellence at the American University in Cairo School of Business.