Dr. Fatih Mehmet Gul is a physician executive and international healthcare chief executive with more than two decades of experience building, commissioning, and operating complex hospital systems across the Gulf, the Middle East, and beyond.
He currently serves as Country CEO of Apex Health Qatar, overseeing a national portfolio of three institutions — The View Hospital / Cedars-Sinai, the Korean Medical Center, and the Military Medical City Hospital — with accountability for more than 4,050 employees and 700 beds across Doha. His career spans both public and private healthcare systems across Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar, including direct involvement in a USD 764 million IPO on the Saudi Tadawul that generated 119-times institutional oversubscription.
He holds an Honorary Professorship at University College London and has been recognised by Forbes as a Top 50 Healthcare Leader in 2022, 2023, and 2025. He is a member of the Newsweek CEO Circle and an early signatory of the Terra Carta initiative, founded by His Majesty King Charles III.
He writes and speaks on the future of healthcare leadership, digital transformation, and the design of health systems that place people — patients and caregivers alike — at the centre.
If you are interested in going deeper, two places to start:
His book, Connected Care: A Digital Transformation Roadmap that Elevates Human-Centred Healthcare, makes the case for reorienting how health systems are designed and measured — arguing that the most consequential transformation in global healthcare is not technological, it is relational. It is a practical roadmap drawn from two decades of building and running hospitals at scale. [Read the book →]
His podcast, The Chief Healthcare Officer, brings together health system leaders, clinicians, and policy thinkers from across the world to examine the questions that matter most to the next generation of healthcare executives. New episodes are released regularly. [Listen to the podcast →]
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