Dr. Faisal Hassan Aboul-Enein

  • Lecturer at School of Health Administration, College of Health Professions

Biography

With over 27 years in healthcare and higher education experience, Dr. Faisal Aboul-Enein has emerged in the healthcare community, as a highly recognized mentor and thought leader on the deep domestic forces changing US Healthcare through dedicated achievements to the healthcare industry at large and in global health trends. Dr. Aboul-Enein has been innovative in the necessity of creating viable solutions to these key issues through his own life experiences in higher education and healthcare field. As a Family Nurse Practitioner, he has seen first-hand the frustration and disconnect in providing coordinated care to patients. This experience caused me to be disenchanted and less empowered to want to engage. As a result of exposure to this life experience and then 20 years as a provider and executive in healthcare delivery.

He served as a reservist officer in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps with the rank of lieutenant commander involved as a nurse practitioner in correctional care and as a strategic health care advisor to the Office of the Surgeon General. Dr. Aboul-Enein has been an avid writer and faculty member about issues related to Population Health, Vulnerable Populations and need to empower Nurse Practitioners within large and small healthcare systems within urban and rural communities. Dr. Aboul-Enein’s passion towards healthcare reform is a result of the key issue that without Innovation, Risk taking and Empowerment through his consulting practice A-E Health Care Consulting LLC. He has served on several advisory boards with hospitals, university settings and private consulting companies and has experience in strategy and education with boards he has served. Dr. Aboul-Enein serves as venture mentor with UTMB, an accelerator that helps health care start up’s.

Dr. Aboul-Enein holds a Doctor of Public Health with a specialization in Community Health, Healthcare Administration from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He also is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health and a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is married with two children and is fluent in Arabic, English and Spanish.

Research Interests

Historical Research, Qualitative Research Methods

Teaching Interests

Health Care Management, Public Health, Nursing