Azad Ibrahim Al-Najjar was born in Zakho a city in south part of Kurdistan in 1968. He studied at the College of Medicine at the University of Mosul and graduated in 1992. He worked for two years as a regular doctor. In 1995, he immigrated to Sweden to continue his scientific career in the field of medicine.
Currently Dr. Azad NajarAzad Najar is a senior consultant physician, living in Västerås, Sweden. Dr. Najar is the Chief Executive Officer and Director at Scandinavian Real Heart AB, and Director and Development Manager at Laprotech AB, both of which he founded.[1][2]
Dr. Najar is a board member of Najar Medical & Invention AB and a consultant urologist at Västerås Sjukhus. Since the 1990s, he has been developing an artificial heart pump that generates the same oxygenation and pulses as a functional heart in a healthy body. He has earnt praise from all over the world for his breakthrough invention.[2]