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Wafa Maalouf

StaySail Coach-lecturer, as a Ph.D. programme-participant 

Specialty area: Nursing Leadership Development, Healthcare Organisations

Wafa Maalouf is an educator and executive in the field of Nursing Leadership, in Beirut, Lebanon. She has held a number of teaching and management positions, participated in numerous workshops and conferences dedicated to health care agencies quality management and continuous quality improvement as well as bridging the gap between Education and Practice.

She is currently the Acting Director for Nursing Services at St George Hospital in Beirut; coordinating and directing operational activities; supervising staffing issues, and responding to nursing units’ needs for human and financial resources, thus ensuring a consistent implementation of quality services. Wafa held a pivotal role of initiating the adaptation of the automated medical documentation at the hospital.

She is also, and since 1997, a part-time instructor at the University of Balamand's Nursing Program, and teaches undergraduate nursing students the basic principles of leadership and management in their field. Wafa is a member in the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing since 1994, and a member in the Lebanese Order of Nurses since 2002. Previously, from 2002 to 2005, she was an ISO 9001-2000 certified auditor, under the International Register of Certified Auditors - IRCA & IATCA. 

She earned her Bachelor degree in Nursing, and her Master of Arts in Educational Psychology, from the American University of Beirut, and has spent a full year at Emory University, Atlanta, as a Hubert Humphrey Fellow attending graduate studies in Nursing Administration and in Health Information System. Wafa is a strong believer in life long learning and its positive impact on one’s life practices. Her studies for the doctorate degree in leadership at our Graduate School are in progress, and she attended and lectured at the 2006 edition of our Summer residential program (picture at the right)..

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