Get To Know. : Plenty of people can’t wait to tell you how much they don’t like hospitals. On the other hand, Edward Aldag, Jr., chairman, president and CEO of Medical Properties Trust (NYSE: MPW), loves them. Aldag’s interest began in the 1980s, when he worked in a rehabilitation hospital. After graduating from college in 1986, he spent the next 15 years investing in rehabilitation hospitals for two private real estate companies.