User:Yasmeen Sayeed

Ms. Yasmeeen Sayeed, President & CEO of Surgical Tourism Canada Inc., has twenty years of experience in health services management, working in progressively senior administrative positions in India, UK, United Arab Emirates and Canada. From June 1999 to May 2005 she held corporate operations and regional management responsibilities with Vancouver Hospital and Health Science Centre and subsequently Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. Between 2000 and 2002 she managed the medical transcription services for the four hospitals that formed the corporate VHHSC entity in addition to managing clerical staffing of 30 outpatient clinics. Between 2002 and 2005 she managed medical transcription services for Vancouver Coastal Health Region, overseeing 48 staff across the region, and an annual budget of $2.5 Million, and was responsible for strategic planning, system decisions, contract management, and day-to-day operations. Yasmeen was also involved in the Surgical Waitlist Recovery Project and the BC Ministry of Health’s Minimum Reporting Requirements Project. In the late 1990s she held senior management responsibilities as Human Resource & Front Office Manager - Gulf Diagnostic Centre - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and in the early 1990s worked as a Primary Health Care Business Manager in the UK. In 1985 while doing her studies in Health Administration from the SCS Kothari’s Academy of Madras, India, Yasmeen completed her internship at Apollo Hospital, Madras, Bachelors of Sciences and Masters of Business Administration, Canada Yasmeen also serves on the board of The Centre of Child Development, BC, as a Board Director.