Dr George Noel Fernandes comes for more than 24 years experience. He did his graduation in allopathic medicine from St. John’s Medical College. Subsequently he did his post-graduation in Preventive and social medicine; travel medicine from Royal College of Physicians and surgeons, Scotland; Emergency Medicine and Quality in healthcare practices from Boston. He is also trained in disaster management, power based selling from Holder International, USA and business continuity planning.

He has serviced at various leadership roles as CEO, COO, Vice-President and Medical Director for premium hospitals abroad (St Mary’s Hospital, Pennsylvania; Saudi German Hospital, Dubai) and in India (Apollo Hospitals, CK Birla Hospitals, Parkway Pantai Hospitals, Medicover fertility group). He has been actively involved with marketing, creating new products, involving the medical and non-medical community to build a community and loyalty driven hospital with centers of clinical excellences that would act as a referral center for the neighboring towns. He has rolled out a number of medical programs that work to help in the active growth of the hospital. His P&L drivers are clinical excellence, quality, improving patient experience, creating new services and upgrading existing services, change in case and payer mix to affect improved clinical and financial outputs. He has been trained and has successfully lead NABH, JCI, CAP and Accreditation Canada accreditations & clinical, operational and financial audits.

He has also worked as Medical Director and Business Head with insurance and assistance companies (International SOS in South East Asia and Americas; Europe Assistance-HIS in France and Thailand). During this period, he worked in various disaster areas such as the Bali Bomb blast, Haiti, various pandemics, tsunami etc and personally done more than 500 medical air evacuations. He has been a first responder and on-ground commander in various disaster situations across the globe, such as Earthquakes, Tsunami, Bomb Blasts, Hostage situations, SARS, HINI pandemic and more recently the COVID-19.

He has worked as a corporate medical director for few of the fortune 500 companies such as CISCO, PepsiCo, Boeing, Goldman Sachs Group, Deer, Fluor, HCL. During this tenure, he built wellness centers in India as well as abroad. As the Corporate Medical Director, he has helping organizations to identify and manage the various medical and safety needs of its business travelers, expatriates and work force. He has been responsible to develop work place health programs and business and organization risk programs; Corporate Planning such as Emergency Response Plan (ERP) Program; Global Travel Health Program; Global Health Screening (Pre-deployment) Program; Global Injury-Illness Management Program; Health Incident Management program (Pandemic); Global Wellness Program; Travel and Expat Health ; Understanding the overall (medical) risk exposure to a corporate as well as finding cost effective solutions; Operational strategy and medical management ( case management); Underwriting and pricing support ; Designing, developing and implementing new products in different market sectors; Defining Occupational Health tools, Compliance Audits, Health Program Cost Analysis, Medical Data; Management, Injury/ Disease Management, Health Surveillance Exams, Wellness Programs, In-House Clinics, Auditing Programs, Post Project Exams; Issues that need consideration for Expatriates, Families and Business Travelers; Special considerations for VIPs traveling to foreign countries for board meeting/Survey/Conference; Special considerations for organizations working at remote sites and issues for local Employees – OH and Wellness and site clinics.

He drives revenue growth by developing new products/services, marketing initiatives, medical quality, clinical excellence, clinical governance, and patient safety, on-boarding of doctors with excellent clinical acumen, leadership, innovative multi-channel distribution strategies and strategic alliances. He is a strategic thought leader with focus on superior analytical skills, rigorous project management and record of strong execution. He has a global mindset, high energy, am intellectually curious, comfortable leading across matrix organizations, participatory management style and accountable for results. He is a keen medical academician and leading expert in Hospital Mergers and Acquisition; Hospital Operations and Management, Disaster Management, managing Global Emergencies, Pandemic preparedness, International Corporate Health, Medical Risk Management and planning of Global Health Incidents and is a frequent speaker and regular expert resource for TV and print media.