Dr. Zayna Khayat is adjunct faculty and Executive in Residence in Health Sector Strategy at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. She instructs in various programs including the health MBA stream, the global executive MBA in healthcare and life sciences, and executive education programs. She is also a member of the School’s Healthcare and Life Sciences Advisory Board.

Zayna is the health futurist in residence with the healthcare and life sciences practice of Deloitte in Canada. Dr. Khayat is an advisor to various companies, organizations, governments and initiatives including virtual care company Teladoc Health, Kudos, Public Health Agency of Canada, Novartis Canada, and Canadian Agency for Drugs & Technologies in Health.

Zayna was previously the Future Strategist with SE Health [Saint Elizabeth Healthcare], a national social enterprise in home care and aging, where she lead the Futures team. With her colleagues at SE Health Zayna co-authored the book Future of Aging.

In 2017 Zayna was seconded to the Health Innovation Lab at Radboud university medical centre in the Netherlands as their “Innovation Sherpa in Chief”, working on various initiatives to strengthen the Dutch health innovation ecosystem, including co-founding the Dutch Ministry of Health’s Health Innovation School.

She lead the Health System Innovation platform at MaRS Discovery District, a major innovation hub in Toronto, from 2014 to 2017. At MaRS, Zayna and her team worked with many ecosystem partners to help smooth and accelerate the path to adoption of innovation by health and care systems.

Zayna completed her Ph.D. in cell biology of diabetes with the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine (2001), followed by a career in strategy consulting, including as Principal in the health practice of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) from 2001-2010.

Zayna has a B.Sc (Hons) in biochemistry from University of Windsor, where she earned the President's Medal for top graduate (1996) and Board of Governor's Medal for top graduate in her program.