Azad Moopen MBBS, MD, DTCD

Dr. Azad Moopen, Chairman & Managing Director of Aster DM Healthcare, the leading healthcare conglomerates in the Middle East and India, is a known Physician-turned Entrepreneur and Philanthropist from the state of Kerala in South India. Dr. Moopen, an “Insightful Entrepreneur & Devoted Philanthropist”, who well balances his profession and commitment to giving back to society, is a popular Visionary Leader, Educationalist, Social Architect and a Humanitarian Extraordinaire.

In the last 3 decades of his professional career, Dr. Moopen has built the largest network of healthcare facilities of over 175 establishments consists of Hospitals, Medical Centres, Diagnostic & Speciality Centres, Pharmacies, Medical College, Healthcare Consultancy and CSR Activities, covering wide spectrum of healthcare services, starting from Primary Care to Quaternary Care through its neighbourhood facilities across Middle East and India. It provided quality healthcare to various cross section of the community under the corporate umbrella “Aster DM Healthcare”. Starting from a single doctor practice at Dubai in 1987, he has taken it to a long way of wide networks, through its brands “ASTER”, “MEDCARE”, “ACCESS”, “MIMS”, “ASTER–MEDCITY”, “DM-WIMS” etc., with a corporate motto “Care Beyond Boundaries”. Today Aster DM Healthcare employs around 15,000/- people across Overseas and India, with above 1,000 multi-national doctors in various specialities, provides care of the highest international quality standards in the geographies they operate in, touching the lives of over 8 million patients a year.

His contributions in developing quality healthcare, affordable and reachable at the doorsteps of various cross section of the community benefitting to millions, facilitating reverse-brain-drain of healthcare professionals by creating employment opportunities for those who wish to settle down in their home country are remarkable. Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences Ltd (MIMS) – 600 beds Multi-Speciality Tertiary Care Hospital, located at Calicut (India’s first NABH accredited tertiary care hospital), DM-WIMS Medical College – integrated with a 350-bed Hospital, set up in a serene location at Wayanadu at Boarder District of Kerala to Tamilnadu & Karnataka States, and ASTER Medcity – a Most Modern Medical Township with Quaternary Hospital with 1,050 beds with 1 KM of serene waterfront upcoming at Kochi, are few of his outstanding contributions to the healthcare delivery in India.