Zahra Darya S.

About Zahra Darya S.

I am an innovative and results-driven healthcare leader with 15+ years of proven success in building clinical programs, developing healthcare products, and successfully scaling teams from infancy into top-performing departments, exceeding SLAs, KPIs, and revenue goals. Through a professional career spanning two decades, I have extensive expertise in optimizing healthcare delivery in highly matrixed organizations with various payor environments & patient populations, including inpatient, outpatient, compounding, specialty, and ambulatory care settings. My comprehensive understanding of clinical and regulatory requirements, operational flows, and technical knowledge of digital technology products has allowed me to drive innovation in healthcare delivery and create medication management solutions that integrate meaningfully within the end-use workflow, best positioned to drive the desired outcomes. As a natural connector, I have led cross-functional teams of business partners, hospital executives, clinicians, engineers, and developers through the #product development cycle of clinical products from conception to launch, owning the success metrics, prioritization of new features, compelling roadmaps and metric targets to achieve desired goals and measure progress towards them.Augmenting my professional knowledge and skills, I have managed teams of 40+ direct reports and oversaw a $17M budget while streamlining protocols, optimizing workflows, and expanding clinical services resulting in significant improvements in productivity, patient safety, cost-containment, quality, and employee satisfaction. As a transformational leader, I develop data-driven strategies in program design & execution and operation management excellence to create succinct, articulate, and successful deliverables. My ability to navigate ambiguous and dynamic circumstances, paired with my passion for building innovative data-driven solutions, allows me to successfully maximize finite healthcare resources for the betterment of healthcare delivery.

Experience

1. Inpatient Pharmacy Clinical, Quality & Medication Safety Management

   Kaiser Permanente

   Aug 2023 — Present

   Oversight of medication management and regulatory compliance, with a primary focus on medication safety in perioperative services and home health, across 6 sites within the San Diego County service area.This version is more concise while retaining the original meaning.

Education

• California Board of Pharmacy

  Advance Practice Pharmacy (APhA)

• University of the Pacific

  Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.), Doctor of phrmacy

Skills

• Patient Counseling
• Hospitals
• Clinical Research
• Clinical Pharmacology
• Pharmacy Automation
• Compounding
• Community Pharmacy
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Diabetes
• Training
• Pharmacy Benefit Management
• Project Management
• Medication Therapy Management
• Pharmacists
• Pharmacy Practice
• Strategic Planning
• Pharmacovigilance
• Pharmacology
• Pharmacy
• Healthcare Management
• Healthcare
• Managed Care
• Clinical Pharmacy