Shehzad Saeed, MD graduated from Dow Medical College, University of Karachi, Pakistan in 1991. He then moved to the US to pursue postgraduate training serving his pediatric residency at The University of Chicago Children’s Hospital and pediatric gastroenterology fellowship at Floating Hospital for Children, Tufts University under the mentorship of Richard J Grand, MD. After finishing his training, he moved to Greenville, South Carolina and then the University of Alabama at Birmingham as junior faculty member. He assumed the GI fellowship director role in 2005, and then became the division director in 2006. He assumed the role of the Clinical Director of the Schubert-Martin Pediatric IBD Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center from 2010 till 2016 and has served as Clinical Director of GI as well as the Medical Director of the inpatient GI/Colorectal unit, as well as Director, GI Outpatient Operations, Liberty Campus, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He has joined the division of Gastroenterology at Dayton Children Hospital in July 2016, and will be serving as the Chief Medical Value Based Care Officer of the hospital, spearheading development of value based care and a clinically integrated network for the hospital.
Dr. Saeed research and administrative focus is outcomes of children with IBD, Quality Improvement in IBD as well as the GI division. He serves on the Physician Leadership Group as well as Clinical Practice Committee for the ImproveCareNow network, a national QI collaborative for children with IBD and also serves as Associate Physician for Innovation. He has also worked closely with the Anderson Center for Health System Excellence at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center to develop and implement prototypes on patient engagement, N of 1 trials/personalized learning systems, patient reported outcomes, eVisits, and mentoring.