Mr. Anwar Anis

MR. ANWAR ANIS started his career in healthcare in Gleneagles Kuala Lumpur in 2003, setting up its International Business Development Department and subsequently heading Marketing and Corporate Communications. He briefly left the healthcare scene before joining Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur, as head of Business Development, before being transferred to Pantai Management Resources to head Group Marketing.

He had a brief stint with Sime Darby Healthcare, before returning to the Pantai Group to head Pantai Hospital Ipoh (PHI), and subsequently as CEO of Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur (PHKL), from 2013 to 2017. During this time, PHKL opened its new outpatient block, a 12-story building, setting new standards in outpatient care, and finalized plans for the redevelopment of an inpatient block adding beds and a nuclear medicine centre, among others.

Anwar has been a proponent of healthcare quality and accreditation, including leading PHI to achieve its inaugural MSQH accreditation. Since then, he has led PHKL and CVSKL during their respective MSQH accreditations, including JCI in PHKL. He has also been on the MSQH Board, both as a representative of APHM and as an elected board member.

Currently he is one of the Directors in TE Asia Healthcare (TE), an outfit which co-invests and develops single specialty centres around Southeast Asia. He is specifically involved in TE’s Malaysia projects, assisting in commissioning and providing management oversight, in CVSKL, ALTY Orthopaedic Hospital and Northern Heart Hospital, the recently opened cardiac and vascular hospital in Penang, the first in the northern region. Additionally, he is currently the Honorary Secretary of APHM (Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia) and is co-lead of a workforce in Malaysian Productivity Corporation’s Healthcare Productivity Nexus (PHPN).