Leadership Majlis Facilitator
Aysha Ali Ahmed Abdulla Almahri
RN, MHA, MHE, FACHDM Congress President, Burjeel Holdings, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Ms. Aysha Al Mahri is a seasoned executive, and well-regarded Nursing leader who joined Burjeel Holdings as Group Chief Nursing Officer and was recently promoted as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Burjeel Medical City, the flagship hospital of Burjeel Holdings.
She brings with her over 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry this includes but not limited to ( Ministry of Health, Al Jalilah Children’s Specialty Hospital, ADNOC, DOH and Abu Dhabi Health Services Company – SEHA ).
She has successfully led a number of key Nursing strategic initiatives including the enhancement of financial effectiveness of hospitals clinical operations through the provision of innovative workforce business plans, the adoption of technology & digital health in Nursing profession, as well as her advocacy with proven results, and reputable success in Nursing professional development, education and research and never the less, the first time implementation of clinical costing concept in nursing services.
Ms. Aysha has a dual two master’s degrees, one in Health Economics from Sorbonne University, Abu Dhabi and the other in healthcare management from the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland.
She obtained her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Sharjah in addition to her Nursing leadership Certificate from Mc Master University – Canada .
She is a board member of the Mohamed Bin Rashid University Advisory Group of Nursing College, and the former president of the Emirates Nursing Association ( 2013- 2022), Board member of UAE Nursing and midwifery council and Member in the National Committee of Nursing and Midwifery affair .
Dr. Michelle Gunn
Chief Nursing Officer, Al Dhafra, SEHA B(Nursing), LLB (Hon 1), Grad Dip (Legal Pract), PhD, GNPLI Scholar
Dr. Michelle Gunn has been a registered nurse for twenty-five years and holds academic qualifications in nursing and law. She is currently the Chief Nursing Officer for the Al Dhafra region of the UAE and has responsibility for six SEHA hospitals. She previously worked for Queensland Health as a Senior Director in the COVID19 Response and a Director in the Office of the Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer, where she had responsibility for Workforce Sustainability and Professional Capability state-wide.
Michelle is passionate about addressing social and health inequalities through policy leadership, and her PhD Thesis was on resource allocation and clinician decision-making. She was the first nurse to hold the Royal Australian College of Surgeons Louis Waller Medico Legal Scholarship, and a scholar of the International Council of Nurses, Global Nursing Policy Leadership Institute (GNPLI) in 2017. She has experience as: an Expert Panel Member for the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal; a Member of the Queensland Nursing and Midwifery Executive Council; and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Queensland. She has led policy at the World Health assembly for the International Council of Nursing for the past 7 years.
Pam King Sams
CEO and Founder,
Pam King Sams and Associates, USA
Pam King Sams, BA, CFRE, MIPP, is the President and CEO of Pam King Sams and Associates, a consulting firm focused on strategic international partnerships. She serves as Senior Advisor to US and UK Healthcare organizations, Universities and Research Institutes seeking relationships with UAE entities who are searching for international partners in patient care, AI-driven technology and IP development, engineering and medical research collaborations, human capacity building activities and economic diversification opportunities.
After seven years at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Pam served in her 12-year role as Executive Vice President for Children’s National Medical Center on the Sheikh Zayed Campus in Washington, DC., leading a development team of 110 professionals. Pam devoted seven of those years to building international partnerships to improve the health of children worldwide with a special focus in the UAE after CNMC received $150 million (US) grant from the Government of Abu Dhabi to form Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation.
Pam has partnered with a number of United Arab Emirates’ governmental and private entities, such as UAE Presidential Affairs Office, the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court, the UAE Prime Minister’s Office, the UAE Embassy to the US, the UAE Ministry of Health & Prevention, the Department of Health-Abu Dhabi, Mubadala Health, STRATA, National Reference Lab (NRL), Khalifa University, Al Jalila Children’s Specialty Hospital, along with public and private healthcare entities, universities, and charitable foundations to coordinate 40+ projects related to innovations in medicine, AI-driven technologies, translational research, engineering, education, climate change, and capacity building.
Pam has served as a Senior Advisor to University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), University of Cambridge (UK), Memorial Hermann Health System (Houston), University of California-San Francisco (UCSF Health), Mount Sinai Health System (New York), The Ohio State University, Hospital for Special Surgery (NY), The Salk Research Institute (CA), Paradigm Health, University of Illinois, University of California – San Diego, among others.
Pam brings nearly 30 years of development experience to her consulting practice, including serving as a trainer at the US State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, educating diplomats and other government officials on Arabian Peninsula and North African culture, as well as the healthcare landscape. She has raised more than $1B USD to establish partnerships during her career.
Pam holds a Master’s degree in International Public Policy, graduating from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Dr. Lauren Arnold
Digital Health Entrepreneur,
Nursing and Healthcare global leader, USA
Lauren Arnold, Phd RN
Lauren is responsible for strategic partnerships for healthPrecision. She has worked with healthPrecision’s co-founders in previous companies, as member of the Board for MedCPU and clinical advisor for PeriGen. She is an experienced health-tech entrepreneur and has served in roles that span hospital operations, nursing leadership, national health policy, and academics. Her prior positions include Director of Women’s Health and Faculty member, Penn Medicine and School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania. She also served as Chief Nursing Officer, Tenet Health, and as a consultant with Ernst & Young in merger integrations. She has served as a clinical advisor to the US Congressional National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality and internationally, as Chief Nursing Officer University Hospital, Dubai project with Harvard Medical, and as Policy Advisor for the UAE Minister of Health. She is a registered nurse; her Master’s and PhD are from the University of Pennsylvania.
