DR. RAMA KRISHNA A/L SUPRAMANIAN

Dr Rama is a Public Health Medicine Specialist and Occupational Health Physician with experience in the field of occupational health and occupational medicine. He has provided essential occupational health services to various job sectors while serving under the Department of Occupational Safety (DOSH) before pursuing postgraduate studies. He completed his training under the Faculty of Occupational Medicine - Royal College of Physicians Ireland (RCPI) and obtained the Licentiateship of Faculty of Occupational Medicine (LFOM) in 2015. Following that he completed his Master of Public Health (MPH) with distinction and Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) at University of Malaya in 2019. His thesis was titled “Development and evaluation of a hearing conservation programme (HCP) among vector control workers”. After graduating, he returned to serve the Ministry of Health under the Selangor State Health Department and subsequently joined the Occupational and Environmental Health Sector in Putrajaya. Currently he is medical lecturer and occupational health physician at the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine. His area of interest and expertise mainly includes risk assessment at workplaces, conducting medical surveillance and implementation of occupational disease prevention programs at workplace. He is also a Good Clinical Practice (GCP) certified researcher with research interest in strategies to prevent noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) including hearing conservation programs.

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PROF. DR. SHAHRUL BAHYAH BINTI KAMARUZZAMAN

 Professor Dr Shahrul Bahyah Kamaruzzaman is a Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine Universiti  Malaya and Senior Consultant Geriatrician practicing at the University of Malaya Medical Center(UMMC). She returned to Malaysia in 2002 after her geriatric training in Cardiff, United Kingdom and served as Senior Lecturer in the country’s first Geriatric unit at UMMC. Dr Shahrul played a key role in the training and refining of the geriatric multidisciplinary team as well as the acute geriatric care services at UMMC. She embarked on her PhD in November 2006 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and was awarded a PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health in July 2010. Her thesis was on assessment of frailty where she developed and validated a weighted Frailty index in the British older population. On her return, apart from frailty, her research interests include Sarcopenia, falls, dementia as well Ageing in HIV populations. Her training in geriatrics and epidemiology have been useful in her activities as a founder member of the Ageing and Age-Associated Disorders Research Group at Universiti Malaya as well as the Malaysian Society of Geriatric Medicine; council member of the Gerontology Association of Malaysia and current President of the Malaysian Healthy Ageing Society. Recently, she has expanded her consultancy work into 'Age-friendly initiatives' with the Penang Island and Petaling Jaya City Councils in support of their application for the WHO Age Friendly City status. All these various clinical,academic and community roles have helped cement her commitment to the development of clinical services, ageing research and medical education in Malaysia  

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