Directors’ Profile
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Dr Yoong Fook Ngian
Independent Non-Executive Director
Dr Yoong Fook Ngian, Malaysian,
aged 71, 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 the Chairman of the Medical
Advisory Committee and Chairman of the KPJ 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 qualification in Otolaryngology in 1972 and was became 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 he
ventured 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 Ipoh Specialist Hospital since 1983
and is one of its founding doctors. He has been the Medical Director of 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.
Annual Report
2012
KPJ Healthcare Berhad