Hiyam M. Nadel is the Center for Innovations in Care Delivery director at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She has over 26 years of progressive clinical and leadership experience in health care, innovation, and operational transformation. Before accepting this position, Hiyam played an essential role in reopening the MGH obstetrics department after a 40-year hiatus. Along with reopening the obstetrics division came the opportunity to implement a different nurse-care model and a “medical home” for obstetrics. She has been instrumental in designing IT programs such as the “ambulatory patient tracking system” and co-authored the design of the “OB EMR,” an electronic medical record subsequently sold to Hewitt-Packard. She is a 2025 Inaugural Francesco Pompei, PhD, and Marybeth Pompei, DNS, RN, Endowed Chair in Nursing Innovation and inaugural Johnson and Johnson Innovation fellow. She was selected as Innovation Learning Network Changemaker, a distinction recognizing leaders trying to bring impactful change to their organization. Hiyam has co-authored The Rebel Nurse Handbook: Inspirational Stories by Shift Disrupters, has spoken on several podcasts, and has written two chapters on innovation and technology within health systems and multiple articles on open innovation. She earned a nursing degree from Northeastern University, a clinical genetics certificate from Brandeis University, and an MBA degree from Babson College focused on innovation and entrepreneurship. She is a founder and immediate past president of the Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, and Leaders (SONSIEL).