About Dr. Seleem R. Choudhury

An international clinician and operational executive with a demonstrated record of exceeding clinical and financial metrics, for developing talent, for redeveloping strategy and service lines in Academic Hospitals and Health Systems & Community Settings, and for being a positive deviant facilitating change within healthcare.

Intimately familiar with U.S. Healthcare’s political, regulatory, and health environment. Experience with strategic planning in complex multi-entity environs and cultures, alignment and integration, within integrated delivery systems. Passionate about advancing affordable population strategy using data, establishing high quality, safety, and strong relationship building with the objective of improving the patient, family, and the employee and provider experience. Excel at managing complex boards, physicians, unionized, employee engagement and political, business, and community relationships. Read More.

Recent Blog Articles

Featured: Healthcare During Conflict

By Dr. Seleem Choudhury

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 1.8 billion people live in a classified conflict zone, equal to 23% of the global population (World Health Organization, 2024). As the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) analysis indicates, conflict in modern times tends toward the “purposeful destruction and destabilisation of civil society, making non-combatants a main target,” with disregard for the rules of war, international humanitarian law, and human rights (CRASSH News, 2023).

Featured: Looking For Inspiration in Unexpected Places

By Dr. Seleem Choudhury

The importance of inspiration in leadership has been long known. When people are inspired by the behavior of an individual, that inspiration can shape actions, goals, and outcomes. Ultimately, those who inspire others not only have a “significant positive impact on their followers,” but also on social systems.

The A.R.M. of strategy

Dr. Seleem R. Choudhury

Recently, my organization went through system-wide strategic planning sessions. Too often, even the best of strategic plans are not implemented successfully because organizations do not consider strategy execution in these discussions, neglecting to ask themselves how their organizations can prepare to implement the plans crafted (Cote, 2020). Our facilitator, Costin Jordache of Adventist Healthcare, lead us through our planning session, taking care to define the ingredients of execution. The following article explores his format for successful execution.

Good leaders create inspiring moments

By Dr. Seleem R. Choudhury

Consistency in the day-to-day requirements of leadership is essential, but the best leaders also know how to intentionally create moments that inspire, engage, drive imagination, and have an impact that far outlasts the moment itself.

What should hospital CEOs prioritize in 2023?

By Dr. Seleem R. Choudhury

Futurists and analysts are forever predicting various new-year opportunities for healthcare, from expansion and innovation to workforce priorities and strategic deselection and reduction. The twin juggernauts of economic impediments and recessionary fears, even with their challenges, will not slow down the need for healthcare. Healthcare leaders often struggle to navigate through this myriad of possibilities.

Reduce health disparities by understanding what makes the patient tick

By Dr. Seleem Choudhury

The healthcare industry must address these health disparities and distinguish “factors within the community that lead to persistent differences in mortality outcomes, to improve population health and longstanding disparities for minority populations” (Glenn, 2022). This begins with the relationship between the patient and their provider and community healthcare team (American Academy of Family Physicians, 2018).