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Dr Yoong Fook Ngian, aged 69, is a Director of KPJ and was appointed to the Board of KPJ on 7 July 2005. He is an Independent Non-Executive Director of KPJ and a member of the Medical Advisory Committee, Chairman of its Clinical Governance Action Committee of KPJ and Chairman of Building Committee.

He received his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from the University of Sydney in 1966. He obtained his post-graduate qualifcation in Otolaryngology in 1972 and was conferred a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He is also a Fellow of the College of Surgeons of Malaysia and a member of the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia. He was employed by the Ministry of Health from 1966 to 1975.

In 1972, he established the ENT Department in Hospital Ipoh. His last posting with the Ministry of Health was as Head of ENT Surgery in General Hospital Kuala Lumpur before venturing into private practice in 1975. In private practice, he was ENT Consultant at Our Lady’s Hospital in Ipoh from 1975 to 1982. He has been Resident ENT Consultant in KPJ Ipoh Specialist Hospital since 1983 and is one of its founding-doctors. He was the Medical Director of KPJ Ipoh Specialist Hospital since 1994 until December 2006.

He is a Life Member of the Malaysian Medical Association and a Past-Chairman of the Perak branch. He is also a Past-President of the Perak Medical Practitioners’ Society.

He is an active member of the Rotary Club of Greentown and a Past-President of the club. Dr Yoong is a Trustee of the Hope Haemodialysis Society, an NGO which provides subsidised haemodialysis for poor patients.

Datuk Azzat Kamaludin, aged 65, was appointed to the Board of Directors of KPJ on 1 September 1994. He is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director and is also a member of the Audit Committee of KPJ.

A lawyer by training, he was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court in 1979 and has been in practice since then as partner of Azzat and Izzat, a law frm. Prior to that, from 1970 to 1979, he served as an administrative and diplomatic offcer with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He currently serves as Director of several public-listed companies, namely, Visdynamics Holdings Bhd, Pulai Springs Bhd, Boustead Holdings Bhd, BHIC Bhd and Axiata Group Bhd.