Executive profile Prof. Nasser A. N. Alzerwi
Health & Higher-Education Executive · Professor of Surgery
I led, implemented and digitised health and education institutions — aiming for better quality, wider access and lower cost together.
An executive, leader, implementer and manager across health services, health-professions education and higher education — and creator of two signature innovations: SHIFA, a sovereign electronic medical record, and Eudaimonic Holistic Flourishing (EHF), a model of care designed to improve quality, access and cost together.
What I am seeking
Executive roles in public and private health systems, hospital groups, universities and health-tech — CEO/COO and transformation, model-of-care and digital-health leadership, health financing & insurance, education reform, SDG strategy — and a faculty position (Professor of Surgery & education leadership) in a promising nascent or an established, prestigious college of medicine.
- CEO, COO or transformation executive of a health cluster, hospital group, academic health system or university
- Model-of-care and digital-health leadership
- Health-financing & insurance transformation
- Education reform · SDG strategy
- Professor of Surgery & education leadership in a nascent or established college of medicine
Six capabilities, one integrated executive
Executive leadership
CUA board representative (Inaya); former UEI CEO, Supervisor-General, Dean and CUA advisor.
SHIFA EMR
Sovereign unified record · NPHIES and regulator links · asset and licensing roadmap.
EHF model of care
Whole-person flourishing · national Model of Care alignment · the golden triangle.
Health-system reform & finance
Governance separation · PPP pathway · insurance readiness · fee-for-service model.
Education transformation
Accreditation · curriculum and assessment reform · IPECP · faculty development.
Sustainability, SDGs & AI
LEAP-FAST · RSME · VNR 2026 · AI simulation and workforce analytics.
Impact at a glance
Each achievement links to the chapter of the portfolio book that documents it.
Led SHIFA, a sovereign electronic medical record
With the Deanship of IT: a unified record for medical, dental, laboratory, radiology and emergency clinics; linked to Rasd, NPHIES, Weqaya and SFDA; all historical data migrated; registered as 5% of the new investment hospital's assets; up to ≈ SAR 3.5M a year in quoted licence fees avoided (derived).
Read the evidence →Created the EHF model of care
Eudaimonic Holistic Flourishing: whole-person, integrated, data-enabled care, designed to align with SHIFA, the free clinics and WorkWell Academic and with the six national systems of care.
Read the evidence →Re-architected the academic health system
Championed separating clinical institutions from colleges and a PPP pathway for the planned university hospital; led the institutions as Supervisor-General; insurance-ready, fee-for-service care by design; oversaw the 24/7 Hajj health convoy (2025).
Read the evidence →Opened partnerships with the private sector
Signed the clinical-cooperation MoU with Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group (2022); negotiating with health clusters and the Armed Forces and National Guard health services.
Read the evidence →Led transformation as UEI CEO
Majmaah's transformation plan and a 44-project excellence portfolio on the national UEI framework, with the PMO; an internal-market proposal; led the University's input to the VNR 2026.
Read the evidence →Led a dental college
Former Dean (from Jan 2023): ETEC accreditation (2025), the first faculty-development programme and assessment reform. As Supervisor-General: oversaw the 55-clinic free network (2025).
Read the evidence →Shaped national higher-education governance
CUA Secretary-General's Representative at Inaya Medical Colleges; former Presidential Advisor for the CUA's University Excellence Initiative and Contact Officer, CUA University Hospitals Program.
Read the evidence →Research and innovation
Group collaborator in cohorts of 83‒132 countries (Lancet 2022; Lancet Glob Health 2024, 2026; Lancet Digit Health 2024); CIFAL/UNITAR award for the AI-integration idea (2025).
Read the evidence →Two decades, four tracks
- 2024 –
- Professor of Surgery (Associate 2021, Assistant 2014), Majmaah University
- 2014 –
- Consultant Surgeon, King Khalid Hospital, Majmaah (HPB from 2016; King Salman Hospital 2017–19)
- 2019 / 2022
- Founding Director, Clinical Cooperation Committee / Saudi Society of Surgical Education
- Current
- CUA Secretary-General's Representative, Board of Inaya Medical Colleges
- Former
- Supervisor-General, Academic Clinical Health Institutes (from 2025) · UEI Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Majmaah University · Presidential Advisor, CUA University Excellence Initiative · Contact Officer, CUA University Hospitals Program
- 2023
- Former Dean, College of Dentistry
Qualifications
- 2023
- MSc Healthcare Management, Saudi Electronic University & Colorado State University Global (GPA 4/4)
- 2016
- Fellowship, HPB, minimally invasive & transplant surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Korea
- 2013–14
- Saudi Board & Arab Board of General Surgery
- 2006
- MBBS with first-class honours, King Khalid University (1st in class)
- 2026
- Certified Expert of SDG Implementations · PMD Pro Foundation (PM4NGOs)
Selected honours
- President's Awards for Faculty Distinction and for Quality & Excellence (2021–22)
- Research Excellence Award (2023–24)
- CIFAL/UNITAR award for the AI-integration idea (2025)
- Best Oral Presentation, 1st place, Najran HPE Forum (2026)
- Volunteer leadership awards (2024, 2025)
Ten theories — and the models that apply them
Each answers a real crisis met as a surgeon, educator or executive, and is set out in full in the portfolio.