Board Appointment : 1 December 2020
Gender : Male
Board Meeting Attendance In FY2020 : 10/10
Length Of Service (as at 26 April 2021):
5 years 3 months
Date of Last Re-election :
23 April 2018
Academic/Professional Qualification/ Membership(s):
• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), University of Tasmania, Australia
• Postgraduate training in Paediatrics and Paediatric Respiratory Medicine
- Hospital Kuala Lumpur / Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
- Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London
- Birmingham Children Hospital
- Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham
• Trained in paediatric flexible bronchoscopy
- University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, USA)
• Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom
• MMedSc (Clinical Epidemiology) from Newcastle University, NSW
• Fellow of Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) of Edinburgh and Glasgow, Fellow of Academy of Medicine Malaysia (FAMM) and Fellow of College of Chest Physicians (USA) (FCCP)
• Harvard Medical School Certificate- SEA Healthcare Leadership One Year Program
Present Directorship(s):
Listed Entity:
• Nil
Other Public Companies:
• Nil
Present Appointment(s):
KPJ Healthcare Berhad
• Member of Nomination & Remuneration Committee, Member of Risk & Governance Committee
• Head of KPJ Research and Quality Innovation Committee and editor of KPJ Medical Journal
• Member of Medical Advisory Committee
• Consultant Paediatrician and Paediatric Respiratory Physician, KPJ Damansara Specialist Hospital
KPJ Healthcare University College Sdn Bhd (KPJUC)
• Member, Board of Directors
• Professor and member of Senate
Past Directorship(s) and/or Appointment(s):
National
• Chairman, Subspecialty Committee for Accreditation, Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, National Specialist Register (2000 – 2016)
• Member, Malaysian Medical Council (1995 – 1997)
• President, Malaysian Paediatric Association (1997 – 1998)
• Board Member, APHM & Association of Private Hospital (2000 – 2004)
• Member, Conjoint Board for Postgraduate Training in Medical Specialties (1995 – 1997)
• Member, Paediatric Conjoint Board (1995 – 2000)
• Member, Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia
• Chairman, Clinical Practice Guidelines on Paediatric Asthma (1996)
• Chairman, Clinical Practice Guidelines on Paediatric Respiratory Infections (2000)
• Member, Clinical Practice Guidelines on Tuberculosis (1996)
• Member, Committee of Malaysian Thoracic Society of Malaysia (1997 – 1998)
• Editorial Board Member, Malaysian Paediatric Journal, Malaysia (1990)
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
• Deputy Dean (1995 – 1997)
• Head of Department of Paediatrics (1994 – 1995)
• Professor of Paediatrics (Respiratory Paediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology) (1993 – 1997)
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
• Adjunct Professor of Paediatrics at Faculties of Medicine of UITM (2009-2010)
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)
• Adjunct Professor of Paediatrics at Faculties of Medicine of UTAR (2013)
Awards/Recognition/Past experience:
• Established the Respiratory Paediatrics as a Paediatric subspecialty in Malaysia
• Pioneered research in paediatric asthma and respiratory illnesses in Malaysian children
• Published substantially in international and local journals