Short Bio: Dr. Zakiuddin Ahmed is a health evangelist, strategist, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, coach, and a visionary physician leader who specializes in fostering collaborations to create socially beneficial & innovative solutions in healthcare utilizing information technology with a Patient Centric Focus. His areas of expertise are Digital Health, Patient Safety, Ethics & Research. As an invited speaker he has presented at many conferences around the world and serves on the boards of various international conferences and organizations. He is the President, Healthcare Paradigm; Project Director, Riphah Institute of Healthcare Improvement & Safety, Program Director RAH@H at King Saud University Riyadh; Director Digital Health at PharmEvo; CEO of Digital Care; & Project Director of RAHAT. He also holds leadership positions as President, Healthcare Quality & Safety Association of Pakistan; Founding trustee of eHealth Association of Pakistan, Secretary Health Research Advisory Board. Dr. Zaki has a Bachelor's degree in Medicine and a Master's degree in Health Management. More About Dr. Zakiuddin Ahmed Professor Akgun is a Professor of Public Health in Baskent University School of Medicine University of North Carolina-Pembroke, USA with more than 35 years of strong experience in data management, statistical analyses, quality and accreditation in health care, patient safety and epidemiological studies including the assessment of burden of diseases and health and nutritional status indices. She is also a quality expert and serving Baskent University as their Chief Quality Officer for the 10 hospitals that belong to the University since 1997. During the past 20 plus years, Professor Akgun has been serving as a consultant in health sector reform projects, system assessments, and quality in health care, accreditation, gap analyses and performance measurements. The variety of research topics she has addressed with collaboration of several international technical supports demonstrates the wide scope of her interests in public and migrant health and her commitment to a comprehensive and holistic approach to health issues. She serves many European, Turkish and international organizations as their advisor on healthcare reform, quality in health care, accreditation in health and higher education, migrant health, community nutrition, system assessment and monitoring. She led a number of projects in the Middle East and Mediterranean Region (Saudi Arabia, Syria, Kuwait, Jordan, and Turkey); Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan) and Europe including projects supported by World Bank, EU and WHO on system reform and evaluation of alternative care delivery models and mechanisms, performance assessment, hospital surveying, patient care outcomes assessment, migrant health, burden of disease among many more such projects. She has also worked as an epidemiologist at WHO/EURO Health Care Policies office, responsible from Central Asian Republic countries and accumulated considerable experience performing data management, system assessment, capacity building and performance measurements of variety of healthcare facilities in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. She serves a number of European, Turkish and international organizations as their advisor on public health, migrant health, quality in health care and patient safety and system development, data management and evaluation and monitoring and delivered hundreds of workshops and seminars on quantitative research design, implementation and analysis, Burden of Disease methodology, quality in health care and accreditation, patient safety and performance improvement to multiple health professional groups in Azerbaijan, India, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, Germany, Pakistan and some other countries.