GHP Specialty Care AB has recruited key persons for the senior management team that will lead the hospitals which GHP has a management contract to run in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The CEO of the hospitals will be Barbro Fridén, who at present is the Head of Sahlgrenska University Hospital. As part of GHP's overall commitment of managing the hospitals in the UAE, the company will amongst other things carry out extensive analyses of business operations and recruit the senior management-to-be.

Both processes are proceeding according to plan and a number of key persons have now been appointed. Barbro Fridén, who will be the CEO of the Hospital Group, is at present the Head of Sahlgrenska University Hospital and in addition has a background that includes the position of Division Manager at Astrid Lindgren's Children's Hospital in Stockholm. Susanne Ljungkvist has been appointed CFO.

Susanne has previously been CFO of Karolinska University Hospital for 6 years. Thomas Wallén has been appointed Head of the Sheikh Khalifa General & Emergency Hospital. Thomas is a specialist in geriatrics and internal medicine and since 2011 he has been Head of Södra Älvsborg Hospital.

Erik Wassberg has been appointed as Head of Sheikh Khalifa Masfout Hospital. Erik is a thorax surgeon and joins the company from Elisabeth Hospital in Uppsala, where he has been CEO since 2014. Bengt Ternström and Salah Abusnana are also important members of senior management, with experience as CEO and CMO, respectively, at GHP's diabetes centre.

They have been instrumental in the development of both the diabetes centre and GHP in the region.