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Tan Sri Datuk Dr Ridzwan Abu Bakar
Tan Sri Dr Ridzwan (PJN PSM MBBS(Mal) FAMM FRCPE FRCPI FRCP(Glas) FRCP(Lon) FACC(USA) has been working as a Cardiologist at Pantai Hospital since 1982.

He was appointed the Group CEO of Hospitals,Pantai Holdings Berhad (listed on the Main Board,KLSE) in 1998, after receiving hospital management training at Mayo Clinic,USA, Wharton's-NUS in Singapore as well as the Harvard Advanced Management Course in KL.

In the same year he was also elected as the President, Association of Private Hospitals of Malaysia. In his roles in Malaysian healthcare, he was instrumental in initiating and promoting health tourism with the Ministry of Health during the turn of the century and was also in the MMA Committee that set up the inaugural Doctors' Fee Schedule then.

In 2003, he was made the Chairman of Pantai Holdings Berhad and was also elected as the President of the Asian Hospitals Federation.

In 2005, following the sale of the Pantai Group to Parkway Singapore, he resigned as the Chairman but continues to be a resident cardiologist at Pantai Hospital to this day.

He has continued to be active in the corporate healthcare scene and was the Chairman of Cyberjaya University of Medical Sciences till 2019.

Currently, he heads the Building Task Force responsible for the completion of the new Joint Academies of Medicine building in August 2023.

He is confident he can contribute further towards the progress of healthcare delivery in Malaysia, in the face of the latest sociopolitical upheavals in the healthcare landscape and in the light of impending cyber evolution and artificial intelligence emergence that will impact the industry in the near future.