Dr. Fatimah Isa is Associate Director for Clinical and Faculty Affairs and Instructor of Psychology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar.  In her capacity as Associate Director, she oversees the appointment and promotion cycle for affiliated faculty and is in charge of advising and mentoring on promotion strategies to our affiliated faculty members. As a Co-Director of the WCM-Q faculty promotion seminar, which is CME accredited by the Qatar Council or Health Practitioners, she has contributed to the development and delivery of the program for several years.  As a post-seminar activity, she provides individual mentoring sessions to the faculty members helping them to develop milestones and strategies to advance in their academic career.  In addition, Dr. Isa has served as a member of the Staff Mentoring Program Taskforce, a group responsible for establishing the first mentoring program for WCM-Q staff.

People development has been Dr. Isa’s passion throughout her entire career. Teaching, coaching, and mentoring were the major part of her previous jobs.  She created several programs with a holistic approach, helping many people grow and develop becoming high-caliber leaders.  In 2009, Dr. Isa collaborated with the corporate physicians at Holcim Indonesia, one of the Holcim Swiss group companies, developing a cognitive and behavior-based program to change its employees’ health attitude. The successful implementation of this program led to a Holcim CEO award in 2010 for its innovative approach.

Dr. Isa’s recent research work has focused on the antecedent factors of transformational leadership, specifically leaders’ self-efficacy and emotional intelligence. This study shed light on use of emotion as the strongest predictor of transformational leadership among other dimensions of emotional intelligence.  Dr. Isa aspires to contribute to the transformational leadership practice in healthcare, promoting well-being of physicians and other health care professionals.