Prof. Kwan serves as the Senior Orthopaedic Consultant of the Spine Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, and the President of the Asia Pacific Spine Society (APSS) 2023/2025. He was the Past President of the Malaysia Spine Society (MSS) 2019/21. His practice is mainly devoted to spinal deformity, i.e., scoliosis patients.  He has vast experience in taking care of and treating scoliosis patients via non-operative management, as well as operative management. He operates an average of 300 spine cases a year, with approximately 200 cases of scoliosis cases.   Prof. Kwan is an active member of numerous international professional spine societies. He is well-known internationally, as well as in the regional spine community, where he currently serves as the President of the Asia Pacific Spine Society (APSS). He is also an Active Member of the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) and AOSpine. He has published more than 100 articles in the International/National Scientific Peer-Reviewed Journals. He was awarded many prestigious MOA research awards, namely the ‘P. Balasubramaniam Award 2014 and 2015’ for the best basic sciences research published papers for 2 consecutive years. He was later awarded the “Subir Sengupta Award in 2017 and 2018” for the best clinical research published papers for another 2 consecutive years. Due to his vast academic contributions, he was appointed as a member of various editorial board members and reviewers for many notable journals.  He has written many academic books and videos related to orthopaedic and spinal surgery and has also contributed book chapters about spinal disorders. Due to his dedicated teaching, he was conferred the ‘Best Lecturer (Clinical) Award by the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya in the year 2013’.

Associate Professor Dr Loh Pui San is a Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist and the Head of Department for Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Department, Faculty of Medicine. She specializes in the clinical field of transplant anaesthesia and perioperative medicine, in particular geriatric anaesthesia. Dr Loh believes that as the Malaysian population ages and increasingly more elderly individuals require surgery at the end of their lifetimes, this is a field that deserves expert attention with equal focus similar to the other extreme of age for children.   An undergraduate Alumni from University Malaya and postgraduate from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, she has worked in many tertiary hospitals such as HKL, HUKM, IJN and Selayang before focusing on her academic career in University Malaya. She hopes to build the field of geriatric anaesthesia among her colleagues working in public (both Ministry of Health and Education) or private institutions via her active involvement in the Malaysian Society of Anaesthesiologists. Dr Loh is also currently working on preparing a national Clinical Practice Guideline for Hip Fractures in the Elderly as part of an expert panel with the Ministry of Health.   Her research interest includes studying perioperative management for major abdominal surgery, transplant, and effects of anesthesia on the elderly for which she has obtained ongoing national and international grants for. In her research involving the geriatric population, Dr Loh has keen interest to study what is best for them when they present for surgery especially in finding suitable assessment to identify risk factors early, institute prevention and provide safe methods of anaesthesia.

Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr. Ahmad Khairi ABDUL-WAHAB, Ph.D, MIET, C.Eng. (UK) is currently stationed at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. He started his career at the University of Malaya from 1999 as a Research Assistant in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering after graduated from Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom in Electrical Electronics Engineering. He has completed his Master Engineering Science Degree's research (M.Eng.Sc.) in the application of neural network as an intelligent process controller for a chemical reactor.Then, he continued his research in Ph.D. in Genetic Algorithm, Fuzzy Logic, and Neurofuzzy in controlling the temperature of a Partially Simulated Exothermic Chemical Reactor (PARS-EX) in the Department of Chemical Engineering and completed his Ph.D. in 2010. Ir. Dr. Ahmad Khairi has initially started his career as a lecturer in 2006 in the Department of Electrical Engineering and currently is serving the Department of Biomedical Engineering as an Associate Professor. Ir. Dr. Ahmad Khairi was the Principle Investigator for a High Impact Research, Cycle 2, 2 subprogram projects leader for University Malaya Research Grant (UMRG) projects, and 1 subprogram in Faculty of Engineering Research Grant. His current research interest are in biomedical modelling and control system, bio-instrumentation, medical devices, and artificial intelligence.