Dr. Poonam Gupta
Senior Quality Improvement Specialist, Coach Value Management Heart Hospital
National Healthcare facilities licencing Inspector, Ministry of Public Health
Dr. Poonam Gupta MBBS, MPH, CPHQ, CMQ is working as a quality improvement specialist in Heart hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation. She is a physician by background with Masters in Public Health from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
She has a keen interest in Quality Improvement and joined Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, in 2013 as a Quality Improvement Professional. She is actively leading several quality improvement projects and one of the lead coaches for Value Improvement work which proved to be great success and gained local and international attention.
She was trained by Institute for Healthcare Improvement (USA) through various learning sessions and is a Certified Value Manager. She earned several international certifications like Certified Professional for Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), Certified Manager of Quality Organization and Excellence (CMQ), Certified Quality Improvement Associate (CQIA). Apart from these, she is a lean professional and holds lean for healthcare from university of Tennessee and Six Sigma Green Belt. She has been local and International speaker for different Quality and Patient safety forums.
In addition, she is a National healthcare facilities inspector serving Ministry of Public Health and involved in licensing procedure of healthcare facilities in Qatar.
Currently she is enrolled in Improvement Advisor program from IHI in collaboration with HMC.