Jawad Saleh, Chief Pharmacy Officer and AVP of Clinical Operations at HSS speaks out on the hospital’s vital work to end the global opioid crisis in an interview with BOSS Magazine. 

Saleh has demonstrated a strong commitment to enhancing healthcare delivery through leadership, operational excellence, and clinical expertise. He has been instrumental in advancing pain management practices, advocating for multimodal analgesia approaches to reduce opioid reliance.

“The opioid crisis is a big deal. It’s close to my heart,” he told explained. At a recent TED talk, he took an unconventional route to get a message across that’s been shouted to the industry a million times but has largely fallen on deaf ears. “I’m frustrated. I've published. I've lectured. I'm one of the directors for the HSS global humanitarian program. I went to Ghana, and I'm heading back to Africa to talk about the opioid crisis.” With the enormity of that struggle, rapping a desperate plea for change isn’t unorthodox at all.

Read the full article at thebossmagazine.com.