Professor Dr Anand Sanmugam is Deputy Dean (Postgraduate) at the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, and a Consultant Paediatric and Neonatal Surgeon at Universiti Malaya Medical Centre. He leads postgraduate academic governance across one of Southeast Asia's most prominent medical faculties while maintaining an active surgical practice with a special interest in minimally invasive surgery in children.

Anand trained in medicine at Universiti Putra Malaysia. He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in 2011, and completed specialist training in paediatric surgery at Universiti Malaya, followed by a clinical fellowship at Perth Children's Hospital in Western Australia. He holds a Master of Medical Education with distinction.

His contributions to medical education go beyond institutional administration. He was a core author of the National Postgraduate Medical Curriculum for Paediatric Surgery and serves as Co-Chair of the National Postgraduate Medical Curriculum Committee for Evaluation and Quality Assurance. His work directly shapes specialist training standards across Malaysia. He is a Malaysian Medical Council-appointed Specialist Programme Evaluation Panel Member and chairs the Subspecialty Curriculum Review Committee at Universiti Malaya Medical Centre. He also chairs the Malaysian Medical Council Specialty SubCommittee for Education for Paediatric Surgery. 

Internationally, he is a Director at Large of the Global Initiative for Children's Surgery (GICS) and co-chairs its Education Working Group, contributing to the global agenda for children's surgical capacity and training. He serves as Secretary of the Malaysian Association of Paediatric Surgery and is a member of the ASEAN Collaborative Evaluation Quality Enhancement Task Force for medical schools.

His research interests span surgical conditions in children, patient-reported outcomes, medical education and tissue engineering. His work in medical education increasingly integrates artificial intelligence with grounded pedagogical design, moving AI tools from novelty into genuine instructional use. This includes developing a dual-avatar virtual patient platform for clinical reasoning training and leading workshops that embed LLM-assisted workflows into research practice to improve efficiency.