Dr. Lee Wan Ling was a practicing clinical nurse in coronary ward from 1992 until she joined the College of Nursing, University Malaya Medical Centre as nurse educator in 2000.  She joined the Department of Nursing Science UM in 2011. She has more than three decades of experience in teaching nursing students and supervising them in clinical areas. After obtaining her PhD in 2018, she is actively involved in research activities with keen interest in mobile-Health, technology in education, coronary nursing, aged care especially in long-term facilities, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of questionnaire, health literacy, nursing education, critical care and non-communicable diseases. Among her current projects in aged care research include the local adaptions and implementation of World Health Organization’s iSupport for Dementia in collaboration with Alzheimer’s Disease Foundation Malaysia and Sunway University (UMG003C-2022) (iSupport-Malaysia website). She leads an interdisciplinary program to develop caregiving credentialing and music care module for caregivers and older people (IIRG003-2022 SAH) in collaboration with aged care industry and related NGOs (https://youtu.be/rB9hn6hcbBA). She also leads the Education and Training subcommittee of KENDANA – Malaysian Caregivers Association (https://www.kendana.com/portfolio ). She is expanding the development of electronic activity tracking system (EATs) prototype called UMFit (Grant RF009C-2018) with a team of UM researchers working on project entitled AI-Enabled Application for Personalization and Monitoring of Fitness Among Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients (Prototype Research Grant: PRGS/1/2022/SKK01/UM/02/1) in collaboration with international partners such as Huami and Huawei to build a hybrid cardiac rehabilitation program (https://youtu.be/4BfyTppmEic).

  Prof Dr Vikineswary started her academic career after completing her PhD in the Institute of Postgraduate Studies in 1989 as a lecturer.  She ventured into search, discovery and utilisation of indigenous microorganisms including actinomycetes and phototrophic bacteria for feed, feed or fine chemicals. Her research activities diversified and while studying the potential of mushrooms and in particular the white - rot fungi in environmental biotechnology, she had the opportunity to work with mushroom farmers.  Together with the growers, the Mushroom Research Association of Malaysia was founded in 2000 and as the founding  president she has highlighted the importance of mushrooms and the industry in Malaysia.  She is well known for the research conducted which includes systematic and bioactivity of marine actinomycetes, mushroom biology and their bioactive metabolites, phototrophic bacteria for bioremediation and as a live feed enhancer. She has  successfully trained 50 Masters and 20 PhD students and a number are currently pursuing their postgraduate studies under her supervision. Her research activities are sponsored by national and international grants including industrial funding.  Prof.  Vikineswary has won several awards for her research findings both in Malaysia and at International Exhibition.  She has collaboration with overseas scientists through CICHE, JSPS and EU programmes. She has published 265 papers in peer reviewed journals, proceedings, bulletins, chapters in books  and  books.  In recognition of her contribution in microbiology and active participation as member of the Malaysian Society for Microbiology she was elected as the first woman President of the Society in 2001. In 2014 she was nominated as one of the Top Research Scientist Malaysia by Academy Science Malaysia. In 2015 she was nominated as a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia.

Dr Lim Quan Hziung is serving as an Endocrinologist and Medical Lecturer in Universiti Malaya (UM) / Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC). He obtained his basic and postgraduate medical degrees, as well as Endocrinology subspecialty training at UM.  He is a committee member of the UMMC Diabetes Care Unit, where he treats patients with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes, and coordinates delivery of comprehensive diabetes care.  He has supervised numerous masters and undergraduate medical students and is actively involved in multiple research projects. His research interests includes type 1 and type 2 diabetes, population metabolic health, obesity and its related comorbidities. He has published in multiple international medical journals including The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews, Journal of Diabetes Investigation among others. His work has been presented at international conferences including the United States Endocrine Society annual conference (US ENDO), ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Society (AFES) Congress, and the International Diabetes Epidemiology Group biennial symposium.  He is regularly engaged for talks with healthcare workers and the public to share on topics on Endocrinology and Diabetes. He has been invited for national media appearances, and has had articles published in various local media.