Metropolis appoints Ameera Patel as its new CEO

May 4, 2010 - PRLog -- Metropolis Healthcare Ltd., India’s only multi-national chain of diagnostics center, announced the appointment of its Executive director Ms Ameera Patel as the company’s new CEO, effective April 1st, 2010. She will be holding both positions concurrently at Metropolis healthcare Ltd.

A Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin, Ms Ameera Patel was instrumental in the company’s exponential growth from just one diagnostic center in Mumbai in 2002 to a chain of 55 state-of-art laboratories across South Asia, Mauritius, South Africa, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Middle East. With her business acumen & strategic mergers and acquisitions expertise, she played a key role in Metropolis’ foray into Sri Lanka, UAE, and South Africa.  Under her stewardship, Metropolis today caters to more than 10,000 small labs, nursing homes and hospitals, over 20,000 consultants and processes more than 10 million test annually. She is also the secretary of the coveted Indian Association of Pathology Labs.  
Commenting on Ms Ameera Patel’s appointment as the new CEO of the company, Dr.Sushil Shah, the Founder and Chairman of Metropolis Healthcare Ltd quoted, “Ms Ameera Patel has a flair to identify and troubleshoot critical issues impacting marketing, sales, financial operations and distribution. She constantly brought in fresh ideas to table, rejuvenated the service list through innovations and built strong brand equity amongst the key stakeholders.  

Dr. Velu, MD Metropolis Healthcare Ltd Quoted “We are delighted to have Ms Ameera Patel as the CEO and Executive Director. The board is confident that under her leadership, the company will achieve even greater heights.  Ms Patel will continue to accelerate the growth of our business, while building on the foundation of quality service and customer focus."

Says Ms Ameera Patel, Executive Director and CEO Metropolis, “The past 8 years have been an interesting experience, growing with the company.  With the diagnostic testing business in India poised for rapid expansion, the new role will be challenging to tap into new markets and expand our business through high quality and innovative diagnostic testing and technology. I see significant opportunities for Metropolis to strengthen the delivery of healthcare services in India utilizing our quality diagnostics and technology expertise.”

ABOUT METROPOLIS HEALTHCARE LTD.:

Metropolis Healthcare (I) Ltd. was founded by Dr. Sushil Shah in 1981. Metropolis Healthcare is India’s only multinational chain of diagnostic centers across India, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, South Africa, Bangladesh, Nepal and Mauritius. It provides around 4000 specialized tests under a single roof ranging from oncology to genetics, molecular biology and immunoassays using best-of-breed and latest diagnostic equipment.

Metropolis is a preferred referral center for more than 10000 laboratories, clinicians, hospitals and research institutions across 125 cities India. The CAP, US FDA for the SMO  

services, NABL accredited and ISO 15189 certified Metropolis chain of laboratories has over 350 centers and is a preferred laboratory for providing quality testing to over 50, 000 Doctors across the country. Services include Clinical Referral Laboratory (Over 4000 Tests)Hospital Laboratory Management,  Preventive Health Checkups, Site Management Services, Clinical Trials.
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