Zayna is VP of Business Development & Strategy with Teladoc Health in Canada. She previously co-founded and led the Futures team at the national home health and aging non-profit, SE Health, as their Future Strategist. In 2017 she spent the year on secondment to the REshape Health Innovation Centre at Radboud university medical centre in Nijmegan, Netherlands where she led several initiatives to advance health innovation in the country.  From 2014 to 2017 Dr. Khayat led health system innovation with MaRS Discovery District, a major innovation hub based in Toronto. At MaRS, Zayna and her team helped smooth the path to adoption of innovation by healthcare systems in Ontario and around the world.

Zayna is adjunct faculty with the Rotman School of Management in the Health Sector Strategy stream where she teaches a health MBA course on Healthcare Innovation. Dr. Khayat has been on the Faculty of Singularity University (Exponential Medicine) since 2016. Dr. Khayat was previously a senior leader and adjunct faculty member with the International Centre for Health Innovation at the Ivey School of Business at Western University.

Zayna earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Toronto / Hospital for Sick Children and an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of Windsor.