Female HealthTech Leader of the Year: Dr Geeta Nayyar

Dr. Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA, globally recognized technologist, physician, and author, has been awarded the Female HealthTech Leader of the Year at the MedTech Malta 2025 Awards held on 14 November 2025.

“I am deeply honored to receive this award. It belongs not just to me but to every clinician, engineer, designer and patient-advocate who believes that health technology can be a force for trust, fairness and human connection," Nayyar said. "Together we hold the power to transform care—one innovation, one experience, one person at a time.”

The MedTech Malta Awards highlight excellence across 21 categories—honouring companies, investors, service providers and leaders whose work will shape the next decade of medtech. MedTech World

The award for Female HealthTech Leader recognises outstanding women pioneers who are driving transformative change in health technology—making this accolade especially meaningful in terms of inspiring equity and excellence in a traditionally male-dominated field.

With this recognition, Dr. Nayyar continues to amplify her mission to:

• Drive trust through technology. She emphasizes that innovation must be grounded in human values, transparency and clinical credibility.

• Bridge the divide between medicine and business. Her dual credentials (MD & MBA) equip her to navigate both clinical and executive domains.

• Empower women in tech. Her leadership role and public voice provide role-modelling for emerging women leaders in digital health.

• Accelerate responsible health tech adoption. Her work underscores how AI, digital health platforms and communications can bolster outcomes when guided by clinical insight and ethical design.

  
  

For organizations, stakeholders and investors in health innovation, Dr. Nayyar’s recognition serves as a beacon: meaningful progress emerges when clinical expertise, technology acumen and inclusive leadership converge.