Shamsheer Vayalil

Shamsheer Vayalil (born 11 January 1977) is an Indian radiologist and healthcare entrepreneur from Kozhikode in Kerala, the founder and chairman of Burjeel Holdings, the group he built as VPS Healthcare from his first hospital in Abu Dhabi in 2007 into a network of hospitals and medical centres across the Middle East and India. He received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman in 2014. ^{1 2}

Vayalil was born on 11 January 1977 at Kozhikode in Kerala, to Hashim Pokkinari and Mariyam Barakkool. ^{1 2} He trained as a radiologist, taking his MBBS at Kasturba Medical College and his MD at Sri Ramachandra, and worked for twelve months at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi before founding his own group. ¹ He is married to Shabeena, the eldest daughter of M. A. Yusuff Ali, the founder of the LuLu Group, and they have four children. ¹ Aligarh Muslim University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2014, an institutional honour recorded here as such. ¹

In 2007 Vayalil founded VPS Healthcare and opened its first hospital, LLH Hospital in Abu Dhabi. ¹ The group grew across the Emirates, Oman and India under the Burjeel, Medeor and LLH names, and is now headed by him as founder and chairman of Burjeel Holdings. ¹ He received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman in 2014. ¹

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