Dr. Samir Haydar, is the CEO and Co-Founder of navigatER, LLC, a Maine based digital health technology start up. Dr. Haydar is a board certified emergency physician with over 10 years of experience in Maine’s only academic level I trauma center. In that capacity, he also serves as the Dir. of Quality and Performance Improvement as well as the Assoc. Dir. of Research for his department. He serves as the physician advisor for hospital flow and clinical documentation. Dr. Haydar’s life’s work has been focused on improving the patient experience. While his primary focus has been on the implementation and monitoring of “flow based” quality improvement strategies, he is well published in a broad variety of emergency based quality improvement strategies. In late 2017, Dr. Haydar, in conjunction with his technology partners, created the navigatER® Patient Experience Platform, a mobile health solution designed to engage, educate and inform patient’s during their acute care needs.