Dr Nardine Saad Riegels earned her undergraduate degree from UCLA and went on to complete medical school and an internal medicine residency at UCSF. She then joined The Permanente Medical Group at Kaiser Permanente, East Bay. She has served both as a primary care physician in DAFM from 2010-2015, and as a hospitalist in the Department of Hospital Medicine since 2016. Throughout her career, she has nurtured a passion for medical education, leading to numerous teaching awards and leadership roles including Director of the UCSF-Kaiser Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (KLIC), Quality Improvement Director for GME, and Program Director of the KP Northern California Patient Safety Fellowship.

Since 2019, Dr Saad Riegels has served as the KP East Bay Director of Medical Education (DME), overseeing all KP East Bay Medical Student, Residency, and Fellowship programs, including partnerships with UCSF medical student, residency and fellowship programs. This includes the UCSF-KLIC program, UCSF School of Medicine block clerskhips and sub-internships, UCSF-East Bay Surgery Residency, San Francisco UCSF/St Mary's Orthopedics Residency Program, KP-UCSF Urogynecology Fellowship program and numerous other GME rotations in various specialties.

In addition to her local impact, Dr Saad Riegels has collaborated on regional and national medical education programs. She is a co-PI in a grant from the AMA Change MedEd initiative, highlighting her commitment to advancing medical education in national forums. She is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators and the KP East Bay Academy of Medical Educators.