Nabil El Sanadi

The president and chief executive of Broward Health, Dr. Nabil El Sanadi, died Saturday, officials with the public health system in northern Broward County confirmed. According to a Sun Sentinel report quoting the Broward Sheriff’s office, El Sanadi shot and killed himself. El Sanadi was appointed to the top job in December 2014 to succeed Frank Nask, who was retiring. Previously, he was a practicing emergency medicine physician at Broward Health Medical Center and the chief of emergency medicine for Broward Health and was chairman of the Florida Board of Medicine. He stepped into the job at a time when Broward Health had been under investigation by the federal government involving allegations that it colluded with doctors to submit tens of millions of dollars in bogus claims to Medicare and Medicaid. Born in Cairo, El Sanadi came to the U.S. with his family in the 1960s. El Sanadi graduated with honors with a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and went on to graduate from medical school at Ohio State University. He also earned an MBA at Case. He completed his medical residency and a one-year research fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland. While chief of emergency medicine at University Hospitals of Cleveland, El Sanadi directed a teaching and research-focused emergency department. He held faculty appointments at Florida International University, Nova Southeastern University and the University of Miami.