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THOMSON HOSPITAL KOTA DAMANSARA
CEO AND GROUP CHIEF CORPORATE OFFICER
NADIAH WAN IS DRIVING GROWTH TO TRIPLE
THE HOSPITAL’S CAPACITY, BOOST EMPLOYEE
ENGAGEMENT, AND DELIVER HOLISTIC
MEDICAL SERVICES THROUGHOUT MALAYSIA,
SINGAPORE AND INDONESIA.WORDS HOLLY JOHNSON • IMAGES THOMSON HOSPITALO
ne of the youngest CEOs in Malaysia,
34-year-old Nadiah Wan is no stranger
to adversity – particularly when it
comes to her age and gender in her
male dominated C-suite cohort. While
completing her studies in Biochemical
Sciences at Harvard University, Nadiah found the time
to work at Boston Children’s Hospital and volunteer
as a teacher in a Liberian refugee camp in Ghana. She
then spent two years at Boston Consulting Group
specialising in life sciences before deciding consulting
wasn’t for her.
“With the intention of pursuing a career in public
health, I earned the Maxis Scholarship for Excellence
to study for a Master of Public Health Nutrition
at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicines in 2009. But somehow, I ended up atkeeps me
the property company Sunway City in Malaysia,
where I was responsible for strategy development
and the management of its merger with Sunway
Holdings,” she recalls. “However, this opened the
door to its healthcare division, and I’ve been
involved with hospitals ever since.”
Over the next five years, Nadiah rose through
the ranks in business development and corporate
communications before assuming the position of
COO of Sunway Medical Centre, overseeing a suite
of clinical services and operations. Leveraging these
strengths, last year she took over as CEO and Group
Chief Corporate Officer of Thomson Hospital Kota
Damansara – previously Tropicana Medical Centre- a 205-bed hospital with more than 100 medical
and surgical consultants and hundreds of patients
who rely on its holistic approach to medicine. »
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