“Be the Best Version of Yourself.”
Sadia Choudhury is a transformative healthcare executive, compliance strategist, and operational leader whose career has been defined by a relentless commitment to improving healthcare quality, strengthening regulatory excellence, and creating meaningful change across complex healthcare organizations. With more than fifteen years of progressive leadership experience, she has built an impressive reputation as an executive who combines strategic vision with operational discipline, enabling organizations to achieve measurable improvements in quality, compliance, patient safety, and organizational performance. Throughout her career, Sadia has consistently demonstrated an ability to lead large-scale initiatives that enhance healthcare delivery while ensuring organizations remain compliant with evolving regulatory standards and industry best practices. Her leadership philosophy is rooted in integrity, accountability, continuous improvement, and an unwavering belief that exceptional patient care begins with exceptional organizational leadership.
Currently serving as Chief Corporate Compliance & Quality Assurance Officer for Damian Family Care Centers, a multi-site Federally Qualified Health Center serving thousands of patients across New York, Sadia plays an integral role in executive leadership, corporate governance, risk management, and strategic organizational planning. Reporting directly to executive leadership while maintaining a liaison relationship with the organization’s Board of Directors, she oversees comprehensive compliance, quality assurance, HIPAA privacy, risk management, medical records oversight, organizational training, policy development, credentialing audits, and enterprise-wide quality improvement initiatives. Her role places her at the intersection of governance, operations, clinical excellence, and regulatory oversight, allowing her to influence organizational strategy while ensuring sustainable operational success. Her leadership has strengthened the organization’s culture of accountability and positioned compliance not simply as a regulatory obligation but as a strategic advantage that improves patient outcomes and organizational resilience.
Throughout her tenure at Damian Family Care Centers, Sadia has produced remarkable results that distinguish her among healthcare executives. She successfully led the organization through its 2024 HRSA Operational Site Visit with minimal citations, demonstrating exceptional preparation and regulatory leadership. She authored and secured a highly competitive $900,000 three-year HRSA HIV Primary Care HIV Prevention grant, creating new opportunities to expand patient services and strengthen community health initiatives. Under her leadership, the organization’s Uniform Data System quality performance improved into the top ten percent nationally, reflecting her ability to align operational execution with measurable clinical outcomes. She also spearheaded the implementation of trauma-informed care initiatives and organization-wide de-escalation training, significantly reducing patient behavioral incidents while enhancing both patient and employee safety. These accomplishments reflect her ability to combine strategic planning with disciplined execution while delivering measurable organizational value.
Prior to her executive compliance role, Sadia served as Director of Quality Assurance & Performance Improvement, where she transformed quality performance through innovative process redesign, Lean methodologies, and data-driven decision-making. She successfully elevated federal quality measures from the lowest performance quartiles into top-tier national rankings while implementing organization-wide initiatives involving Patient Centered Medical Home recognition, HEDIS performance improvement, value-based care metrics, Meaningful Use incentives, diabetes prevention programming, and Social Determinants of Health integration. Her leadership consistently emphasized measurable outcomes, interdisciplinary collaboration, and continuous process improvement, resulting in stronger operational efficiency, improved patient care, enhanced reimbursement opportunities, and increased organizational effectiveness.
Earlier in her career, Sadia held progressively senior leadership positions with Staten Island Performing Provider System, Nassau University Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, and NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn. Across these organizations, she developed and implemented population health strategies, care redesign initiatives, behavioral health integration programs, project management offices, and healthcare transformation initiatives that supported statewide delivery system reform efforts. She successfully led cross-functional teams, partnered with hospitals, physician practices, community organizations, and executive stakeholders, and introduced innovative technology-enabled healthcare solutions designed to improve patient engagement, reduce avoidable hospital utilization, and strengthen healthcare access for underserved populations. Her work in Social Determinants of Health programming, quality improvement, and care coordination established her as a respected leader capable of navigating highly complex healthcare environments while achieving sustainable operational improvements.
Sadia’s expertise extends well beyond healthcare operations into governance, enterprise risk management, strategic planning, quality systems, and organizational development. She is widely recognized for her knowledge of corporate compliance, HIPAA regulations, healthcare operations, quality improvement methodologies, root cause analysis, practice management, regulatory policy development, healthcare technology, electronic medical records, statistical analysis, project management, and performance improvement. As a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Patient Centered Medical Home Certified Content Expert, she brings analytical precision and disciplined execution to every initiative she leads. Her certifications as a Medicaid Accelerated Exchange Train-the-Trainer, INTERACT Trainer, eClinicalWorks Certified EMR Specialist, NIH-certified researcher, and leadership development professional further reinforce her reputation as a well-rounded executive with expertise spanning clinical operations, technology, workforce development, and organizational transformation.
Her educational accomplishments reflect the same pursuit of excellence that has defined her professional journey. Sadia earned a Master of Public Administration with a specialization in Health Administration from Long Island University, graduating with a perfect 4.0 GPA while receiving the Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Student Leader Award, the Excellence in Health Administration Award, and induction into the prestigious Pi Alpha Alpha National Public Affairs and Administration Honor Society. She also earned a Bachelor of Arts in Pre-Medicine from Hunter College, where she graduated with Dean’s List honors. Her commitment to lifelong learning continues through professional certifications, executive education, speaking engagements, and active participation in respected organizations including the American College of Healthcare Executives, American Society of Public Administration, Healthcare Financial Management Association, and other professional healthcare leadership associations.
Beyond her executive accomplishments, Sadia is recognized as an engaging public speaker, mentor, and advocate for continuous improvement within healthcare. She frequently shares her expertise through professional speaking engagements, workforce education programs, and leadership development initiatives, believing that organizational success is built by empowering others to reach their full potential. Fluent in Bengali and conversational in Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi, with foundational knowledge of Spanish and Arabic, she brings valuable cultural awareness and communication skills to increasingly diverse healthcare environments. She also expresses a strong interest in expanding her international exposure, reflecting both her global perspective and desire to contribute her expertise across broader healthcare systems. Outside of her professional responsibilities, Sadia enjoys reading and journaling, activities that reflect her thoughtful, reflective leadership style and commitment to lifelong personal growth.
As a board candidate, Sadia offers organizations an exceptional combination of executive leadership, governance experience, healthcare operations expertise, regulatory compliance knowledge, and transformational strategic thinking. She is particularly well suited for corporate, nonprofit, advisory, and healthcare governing boards seeking leaders with experience navigating organizational complexity, improving quality performance, strengthening enterprise compliance, mitigating risk, and leading sustainable organizational change. Her ability to translate strategy into measurable results, build high-performing teams, foster collaboration across diverse stakeholders, and maintain an unwavering commitment to ethical leadership positions her as an invaluable resource for organizations seeking forward-thinking governance and executive guidance. Guided by her personal motto, “Be the Best Version of Yourself,” Sadia continues to inspire those around her while creating lasting impact across every organization she serves.
Character:
Sadia leads with integrity, humility, and an unwavering commitment to serving patients, colleagues, and communities with excellence. She consistently demonstrates accountability, professionalism, and compassion while fostering cultures built on trust and continuous improvement.
Knowledge:
Her deep understanding of healthcare operations, corporate compliance, quality improvement, governance, and regulatory affairs enables her to solve complex organizational challenges with confidence. She combines advanced technical expertise with practical executive experience to guide organizations toward sustainable operational excellence.
Strategic:
Sadia approaches every challenge with long-term vision while maintaining disciplined attention to execution and measurable outcomes. She has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to align people, processes, technology, and strategy to drive transformational organizational performance.
Communication:
An accomplished communicator who effectively engages executive leadership, governing boards, clinicians, regulators, and frontline staff with equal credibility. Her collaborative leadership style, public speaking experience, and ability to translate complex issues into actionable solutions make her a trusted advisor and influential executive leader.
