Dr Cheriyan is the CEO and Chief Medical Officer of the American Mission Hospital (AMH) in Bahrain since 2009. He worked as a Neonatologist for over 25 years after obtaining his Medical training in the University of Kerala, and post graduate training in Pediatrics in London at The Hospital for Sick Children, and sub-specialization in Neonatology at the Hospital for Sick Children, in Toronto, Canada.
He worked as a Consultant Neonatologist in the National Health Service In London before moving up to take up a position as a Consultant Neonatologist at Saudi Aramco.
He was the Head of Neonatology at the Saudi Aramco Hospital where he worked for 18 years in various capacities of leadership including leading the healthcare quality of Saudi Aramco Healthcare.
He is a trained ‘Improvement Advisor’ in Healthcare quality from the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Boston, MA. He obtained training in Healthcare management at the Harvard Business School, and is an alumni of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He has an MBA in leadership from the UK, and his area of interest is in developing a model of non-profit healthcare which is both affordable and of high quality in all economies.