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Annual Report 2013
KPJ HEALTHCARE BERHAD
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DR. KOK CHIN LEONG
Independent Non-Executive Director
Dr. Kok Chin Leong, aged 56, 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 KPJ Clinical
Governance Policy Committee since 2001 and presently the Chairman for the
Committee since 2005 and the Advisor for KPJ’s Clinical Information System since
January 2003.
He presently sits in the Executive Committee of the Malaysian Paediatric Association
(MPA) since 2009, and is the President of MPA from 2013 to 2015. He is also the
President-Elect for Asean Paediatric Federation.
He received his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 1982 from
University of Malaya and completed his postgraduate studies in Paediatrics (Master
of Medicine Paediatrics) in 1990 from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He was
conferred a Fellow of the Royal College of Physician of United Kingdom in 1990 and
registered as full medical practitioner with the Malaysian Medical Council in 1983.
His medical career started in 1986 at Kuala Lumpur General Hospital in Clinical
Paediatrics, worked as Senior House Officer/ Registrar at Derby Children’s Hospital,
United Kingdom in 1990. He served as the Clinical Specialist in Paediatrics at Hospital
Sultanah Aminah, Johor Bahru from 1991 to 1992 and was the Head of Department
of Paediatrics at Batu Pahat Hospital from 1991 to 1993 and Senior Consultant
Paediatrician at Hospital Sultanah Aminah, Johor Bahru from 1993 until 1994. He
was the Project Coordinator/Chairman for the Batu Pahat Rotary Club Haemodialysis
Centre from 1992 to 1993 and was the Southern Representative for MPA from 2000 to
2004 and the Southern Coordinator for Infant Touch Therapy. He was a Board Member
in Association of Private Hospital Malaysia (APHM) from 2008 to 2010. He was a
Board member for MSQH from 2011 to 2013. He has been the Resident Consultant
Paediatrician at Puteri Specialist Hospital since 1994 and was appointed as the
Medical Director in February 2000 until June 2006. His main interests are in Health
Informatics, Patient Safety in Healthcare Delivery, Clinical Governance, and Clinician
Performance & Appraisal Assessment.
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