Dr Alain Michel Sabri

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Dr Alain Sabri is a medical professional and healthcare leader with 25 years of experience as an Otolaryngologist-Head & Neck Surgeon and Facial Reconstructive Surgeon. He has gained a versatile healthcare management experience in a variety of geographical areas worldwide. He has held several leadership positions including chairing five departments, serving as associate chief of staff, medical director of human resources and Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs & recruitment at leading international medical schools and medical centers and CMO of an international organization. He has established multiple programs, departments, as well as multidisciplinary teams/centers of excellence and was involved in two major international projects with the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic in the GCC region along with his clinical and academic activities as an educator-researcher. He has driven team building, the successful development of programs and practices as well as instituting impactful changes that resulted in improvement in the quality of clinical healthcare delivery in addition to educational excellence and financial turnaround.

He has lectured extensively worldwide, has organized & chaired many scientific meetings. He is active in research, both basic science and clinical, and has published widely on head and neck surgery. He recently published a  medical textbook on the challenges of global sleep disorders management.  He serves on the editorial board of many scientific journals. He has also lectured and conducted research on physician burnout,  healthcare professional wellness and leadership.

He was granted the title of professor from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner School of Medicine and many leading medical schools in the middle east where he has practiced and taught. At the Mayo Clinic, USA where he practiced as a faculty surgeon, he received the Teacher of The Year Award. He also was presented with the inaugural ‘outstanding physician-educator of the year award’ at SSMC-Mayo Clinic in the UAE.  He received the ‘honor award’ from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.

Dr Sabri is American board certified in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.  He was also awarded the American Board certification in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 2004. His medical educational journey included surgical training, sub-specialization in head and neck oncologic and reconstructive surgery as well as neurotology-skull base surgery at Georgetown, Case Western/University Hospital of Cleveland and Vanderbilt University Medical Centers. He has also completed a master’s degree in health and hospital management from ESA (Ecole Superieure des Affaires-affiliated with ESCP France) business school as well as pursuing further Healthcare Leadership course at INSEAD. 

In parallel to the above, he was involved in multiple medical humanitarian missions in South America and the Middle East. He serves on educational institutional boards as well as a cancer charity fund (RAHMA) in the MENA region where he also oversaw the establishment of medical dispensaries that care for the less fortunate. He is fluent in many languages including Arabic, French and English.

EXPERTISE AND INTERESTS:

Establishing centers of excellence and multidisciplinary teams (cancer, other specific MDT’s)

Leadership guidance, organizational structure and culture

Medical student, resident and fellow educational programs, ACGME-I and other accreditations

Educational curriculum establishment, CPD-CME

Patient satisfaction, experience

Employee engagement, avoiding burnout, building a solid cohesive institutional culture

Strategic planning, competitive benchmarking, regional practice analysis

Creating a blue ocean strategy for new and established centers and clinics

Loco-regional, international affiliations

Setting up departments, institutes and integrated patient units

Reputation assessment and management

Establishing preventive and functional medicine institutes with our partners Health Quest Global

Humanitarian initiatives

Pascale is a passionate business development, strategic Communications, and Program Management professional with more than 25 years of experience spanning Healthcare consultancy, media, entertainment, digital media, communications, marketing, public relations, business operations, and entrepreneurship across the Middle East.

As one of the company's two principal shareholders, she currently serves as Managing Director, Director of Business Development, Senior Strategic Communications Advisor and shareholder of Avicenna Healthcare Consultancy Group, where she plays a leading role in shaping the company's communications, strategic direction, growth, partnerships, and market positioning.

Prior to joining Avicenna Healthcare Consultancy Group, Pascale founded the Orfelia Studio, a creative workshop that gave birth to bespoke, unique, and memorable lighting and furniture pieces for residential, hospitality, and commercial spaces.

Throughout her career, she has held senior leadership positions in business development, complicated NGO-related operations settings, communications, marketing, public relations, program management, operations, and media operations.

Her expertise extends across media and entertainment, digital publishing, media monitoring, media research, reputation management, stakeholder engagement, strategic partnerships, and international business development.

Known for combining strategic vision with hands-on execution, Pascale bridges creativity, business strategy, and operational excellence to deliver meaningful and lasting results across diverse industries and markets.

EXPERTISE AND INTERESTS:

. Building and running flexible operations amid challenging environments

. Managing large multi-disciplinary teams

. Expert in project and program building and direction, systematically delivering outcomes that focus on consensus-building and win-win scenarios and outcomes