Nationality
Malaysian
Age
67
Board Appointment
1 February 2016
Length of Service
–
PROF DATO’ DR. AZIZI
OMAR
Independent Non-Executive
Director
Prof Dato’ Dr. Azizi Omar was appointed
to the Board of KPJ Healthcare Bhd on
1 February 2016. He is an Independent
Non-Executive Director of KPJ. He is
also a member of KPJ’s Medical Advisory
Committee.
Prof Dato’ Dr. Azizi is a Consultant
Paediatrician and Paediatric Respiratory
Physician at KPJ Damansara Specialist
Hospital where he was also the Medical
Director from 1997 until recently. He is
also a Professor and member of the
Senate and Board of Directors of the
KPJ Healthcare University College. He
heads the KPJ’s R&D Committee and
edits the KPJ Medical Journal.
He was formerly a Professor of
Paediatrics (Respiratory Paediatrics and
Clinical Epidemiology) at the Universiti
Kebangsaan Malaysia where he also
served as the Head of the Department
of Paediatrics and a Deputy Dean until
his optional retirement in 1997 to join
Damansara Specialist Hospital. He had
also served as Adjunct Professor of
Paediatrics at the Faculties of Medicine
of UiTM and UTAR.
He established Respiratory Paediatrics as
a Paediatric subspecialty in Malaysia and
pioneered research in paediatric asthma
and respiratory illnesses in Malaysian
children. He has published substantially
in international and local journals. He has
been deeply involved in paediatric
undergraduate and postgraduate training
and in teaching research methodology
and Clinical Epidemiology.
He was also a past President of the
Malaysian Paediatric Association. He
chaired the Clinical Practice Guidelines
Committees for Childhood Pneumonia and
Resp i r a t o r y I n f ec t i ons and t he
Management of Childhood Asthma. He
has served as chairman of the
subcommittee for Credentialing of
Paediatric Respiratory Physicians for the
National Specialists Register (NSR). His
current interests are in implementing and
enhancing quality and safety issues in
healthcare through active involvement in
clinical governance, teaching and research.
Prof Dato’ Dr. Azizi was born in Jitra,
Kedah in 1949. He was educated at the
Sultan Abdul Hamid College, Alor Star,
and the Royal Military College, Sungai
Besi. He obtained his MBBS at the
University of Tasmania in 1977. He
pursued postgraduate training in
Paediatrics and Paediatric Respiratory
Medicine in Hospital Kuala Lumpur/
University Kebangsaan Malaysia, the
Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond
Street, London, the Birmingham Children
Hospital and Dudley Road Hospital,
Birmingham. He trained in paediatric
flexible bronchoscopy at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, and
in Clinical Epidemiology and Research
Methodology at the University of
Newcastle, Australia. He obtained his
MRCP (UK) in 1982 and MMedSc
(Clinical Epidemiology) from Newcastle
University, NSW, in 1990. He became
Fellow of Royal College of Physicians
(FRCP) of Edinburgh (1994) and Glasgow
(1995), Fellow of Academy of Medicine
Malaysia (FAMM) (1997) and Fellow of
College of Chest Physicians (USA)(FCCP)
(1998). He was conferred Darjah
Kebesaran Indera Mahkota Pahang
(DIMP) in 2004.
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Annual Report
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