Shadaab Kanwal is a recognized visionary strategist, business advisor and patient focused technology steward; serves as the Executive Director Research & Health Policy; Quality & Care Delivery Excellence and Community Benefits IT portfolio at Kaiser Permanente. 

Shadaab brings 18 years of distinguished operations and technology leadership experience that formed strategic intent for innovation and produced competitive advantage for UCLA Health Sciences, OhioHealth, Mayo Clinic, United Healthcare (Fortune 50) and Catholic Healthcare West (CHW). 

Prior to Kaiser Permanente, he executed emerging medical technologies, created IT governance and alignment building collaborative alliances, simplified deployment of complex clinical and business softwares and led development of actionable informatics and analytics built by high performance teams; to facilitate strategic imperatives of meaningful use, clinical innovation and revenue cycle transformation. 

His recent endeavors orchestrate the delivery of smart technology, innovative learning systems and integrated healthcare analytics. These efforts enable; value-based complex care and clinical transformation, enhanced patient progression, safety and performance improvement with risk management; ensuring multi-region community benefits, responsible research Initiatives and clinical strategy. 

He earned his Master of Business Administration in Healthcare Management from Western International University and Master of Information Systems Management from DeVry University, Keller Graduate School of Management. 

An active member of CHIME, ACHE, HIMSS & EDUCAUSE: Shadaab’s role is to establish and promote the KAISER Permanente’s expertise in high performance computing and intelligence for healthcare delivery and global medical research. In this capacity: he is a multilingual communicator, speaker and contributor to industry journals.