Dr. Saira Zafar is an Associate Professor in Department of Medicine at Western University. She completed her medical school from King Edward Medical University, Pakistan. She did her core internal medicine residency and fellowship in General Internal Medicine from Western University. During her core residency, she developed interest in Quality improvement and Patient safety after winning excellence in research award for her work on medical errors in the clinical teaching units. She went on to do a clinical scholar year at Western with focus on improving inpatient medical unit’s quality of care. She is involved with various quality improvement projects such as improving hand hygiene compliance rates of residents and medical students and medication reconciliation. She is also working on implementing strategies to identify high risk patients for readmission in order to provide intensive peri-discharge care to reduce readmission rates.