HAIFA ALKHELEDAN
Riyadh,Saudi Arabia
Summary
Crane control functions specialist with extensive expertise in infection control standards and protocols. Demonstrates proficiency in infection control and aseptic procedures, ensuring adherence to quality control enhancement measures. Committed to advancing infection control practices and contributing to organisational health and safety goals.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
2009
2009
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Specialist
Riyadh First Health Cluster
Riyadh
2025.05 - 2026.02
- Lead and support the implementation of governance frameworks, policies, charters, and committee structures across the health cluster to ensure alignment with national regulations and healthcare best practices.
- Identify, assess, and monitor strategic, operational, clinical, and compliance risks, maintaining the enterprise risk register and tracking mitigation plans and key risk indicators.
- Conduct risk assessments related to patient safety, sentinel events, high-risk clinical processes, and organizational change initiatives.
- Monitor compliance with regulatory requirements and accreditation standards (including CBAHI), performing gap analyses and supporting internal audits and inspections.
- Track, follow up, and verify corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to ensure timely closure of compliance and audit findings.
- Prepare and present governance, risk, and compliance reports, dashboards, and summaries to leadership and executive committees to support informed decision-making.
- Integrate GRC activities with quality improvement, patient safety, infection prevention, and performance management initiatives.
- Analyze incident reports, near-misses, and trend data to identify systemic risks and recommend improvement actions.
- Provide advisory support and guidance to departments on governance, risk management, and compliance requirements.
- Contribute to awareness programs, training sessions, and workshops to strengthen risk awareness and compliance culture across the cluster.
- Support the use and enhancement of digital systems for GRC reporting, monitoring, and documentation.
Simulation Centers Director
Organizational Development Department
Riyadh
2023.08 - 2025.05
- Lead the strategic planning, development, and governance of simulation centers in alignment with organizational goals and workforce development needs.
- Design and oversee simulation-based education programs to enhance clinical competency, patient safety, and inter professional collaboration.
- Integrate simulation initiatives within the Organizational Development strategy to support talent development, leadership readiness, and change management.
- Establish policies, standards, and operating procedures for simulation activities, ensuring alignment with accreditation and quality requirements.
- Collaborate with clinical leaders, educators, and external stakeholders to identify training gaps and develop targeted simulation solutions.
- Oversee curriculum development, scenario design, and assessment frameworks to ensure high-quality, outcome-driven simulation experiences.
- Monitor performance indicators and evaluate the impact of simulation programs on staff competency, organizational performance, and patient outcomes.
- Manage simulation center resources, including staffing, equipment, budgets, and technology, to ensure efficiency and sustainability.
- Lead, mentor, and evaluate simulation educators and staff, fostering a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and excellence.
- Support organizational initiatives related to patient safety, risk management, emergency preparedness, and clinical governance through simulation.
- Represent the simulation centers in committees, accreditation activities, and organizational development forums.
Strategic Manager
Cluster 1, Riyadh Zone
Riyadh
2022.07 - 2023.08
- Design, manage and execute strategy in collaboration with leadership.
- Manage the annual update of long Strategic Plan and align operational business plans with relevant division/department heads in line with annual financial budgeting cycle and operating calendar.
- Ensure that 5-Year Strategic Plan aligned with MOH’s Healthcare reform strategy and vision through working closely with relevant leadership representatives and stakeholders at the MOH.
- Manage internal and external stakeholder relationships effectively to ensure alignment of strategic priorities and enterprise wide strategic initiatives and programs.
- Initiate strategic assessment studies to identify emerging healthcare markets trends, opportunities or potential risks and recommend mitigation or contingency strategies.
- Supervise the deployment and management of a performance management framework
- Ensure all policies and guidelines of the strategic management office are developed/updated and implemented across the Cluster One.
Epidemiologist / Infection Control Specialist
King Saud Medical City
Riyadh
2010.04 - 2022.07
- Determined important variables for cases such as location and severity of outbreaks and laboratory and clinical findings.
- Lead investigations into outbreaks.
- Authored and presented final after-action reports, identifying strengths and challenges and recommended corrective changes for future investigations.
- Maintained data, reporting and quality assurance standards throughout investigations.
- Surveilled notifiable infection conditions and outbreaks in the region.
- Analysis of infection control data, interprets, and makes final reports.
- Evaluating and giving recommendations regarding IPC program development
- Develop work plan and strategic plan objective that relate to public health issues and stat standards.
- Participating in PCIA performance improvement
- Design and implements epidemiological studies and surveillance system
- Determines and utilizes appropriate statistical methods to evaluate and interpret data.
Infection Control Specialist
King Saud Medical City
Riyadh
2021.01 - 2022.01
- Director of Prevention and Control of Administration at King Saud Medical City.
- Deputy Director of Prevention and Control of Administration at King Saud Medical City from 2014 till 2017.
- Head of epidemiology unit 2018 to 2020.
- Head of COVID containment task force team. 2020
- Director of Prevention and Control of Administration at King Saud Medical City from Jan.2021 until Dec. 2021.
- Prevention, investigation, monitoring, and reporting of the spread of diseases in hospital.
- Ensure the development, implementation and evaluation of relevant standards of practice based on infection prevention and control guideline.
- Coordinate the employee health clinic with effective prevention program for communicable disease.
- Monitor individual compliance with existing infection prevention and control policy, criteria or regulations.
- Notifies communicable disease statistics to Ministry of Health on weekly and monthly basis.
- Ensure isolation precautions implemented and maintained by responsible health care worker.
- Performs rounds to all patient care and non-patient care areas for supervision of Environmental factors.
- Introduce all necessary measures to prevent the spread of infection or organism highly resistant to Antibiotics.
- Collaborate with other members of outbreak control team in investigation epidemic of infections.
- Participates in and supports quality improvement and patient safety activities as an individual or as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Provides information, if requested, to patients, relatives or community consumers on infection prevention and control needs.
- Ensure policies and practices are updated and easily reachable for all departments.
- Provides consulting role to healthcare workers in matters related to infection prevention and control.
Education
Bachelor Degree - Medicine
King Saud University
RiyadhHighly Diploma - Infection Control
MOH and JCI
RiyadhFETP - Epidemiology
King Saud University
RiyadhSkills
- Crane control functions specialist
- Infection control standards
- Infection control protocols
- Infection control standards expert
- Infection control and aseptic procedures
- Infection control proficiency
- Quality control enhancement
Certification
- CPHMG, August 2021 (American Institute for Healthcare Management)
- CBIC (The Certificate Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology) 2021 CPHQ, March 2022 (Certifies Professional in Healthcare Quality)
- Data Management and Descriptive Statistics Using SPPS (BASIC), FROM American Institute of Health Care and Hospital Management August 2022
- Certified Strategy & Business Planning Professional (The KPI Institute), October 2022
- Certified Balanced Scorecard Management System Professional (The KPI Institute), February 2023
- Professional Diploma from American Institute of Health Care & Hospital Management in Practical Implementation of Accreditation Standards for Hospitals from Sep 2023 to Mar 2024
- Sterling International Certification as Sterling Int. Evaluator /Ambassador May 2024, Conducted site visits to two well-known healthcare entities as a Sterling evaluator.
- Governance, Risk, and Compliance Professional (GRCP) 2025, from OCEG.
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Specialist
Riyadh First Health Cluster
2025.05 - 2026.02
Simulation Centers Director
Organizational Development Department
2023.08 - 2025.05
Strategic Manager
Cluster 1, Riyadh Zone
2022.07 - 2023.08
Infection Control Specialist
King Saud Medical City
2021.01 - 2022.01
Epidemiologist / Infection Control Specialist
King Saud Medical City
2010.04 - 2022.07
Highly Diploma - Infection Control
MOH and JCI
FETP - Epidemiology
King Saud University
Bachelor Degree - Medicine
King Saud University