What I Did Next Encore: Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram
Dec 2, 2025
Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram is a trailblazing plastic surgeon and the CEO of Proximie, a revolutionary tech company transforming surgical operations. In this conversation, she shares insights on Proximie's explosive growth and its mission to enhance healthcare efficiency with AI technology. Nadine delves into her balancing act between surgery and her startup, emphasizes the need for large-scale healthcare innovation, and reveals her new venture focused on health for high-performers. Her passion for improving patient lives shines brightly throughout.
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Stay Clinically Grounded
- Keep clinical practice while leading innovation to stay grounded in real problems and maintain credibility.
- Nadine continues operating one list a week and three clinics a month alongside her leadership roles.
Human-Only Model Won't Scale Care
- Scaling healthcare requires driving innovation and transformation at system level, not relying on an "organic" human-only model.
- Nadine argues that tech must augment systems to close the supply-demand gap in care access.
ORs Offer Big Efficiency Wins
- Operating rooms are high-cost, high-impact assets with low utilization and high variability across hospitals.
- Proximie uses ambient AI and computer vision to automate timestamps and orchestrate workflows, boosting efficiency and cases per day.