Lai Kuan Tham is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Universiti Malaya. She is a member of the Centre for Applied Biomechanics. She obtained her PhD, MEngSc, and BEng in Biomedical Engineering from Universiti Malaya. Her research interests span widely across the areas of biomechanics, particularly in human movement analysis, physical activity monitoring, and medical diagnosis based on wearable technologies and artificial intelligence. Current research includes gait and movement analysis in lower limb amputees, early detection of epilepsy, and scoliosis classification.   

As an infectious diseases physician, lecturer, and researcher at Universiti Malaya, I focus on advancing research through randomized controlled trials to improve treatment strategies for infections caused by Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. I am dedicated to optimizing antimicrobial therapies in critically ill patients by integrating pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics principles to achieve better therapeutic outcomes.

Dr. Azanna Ahmad Kamar is an Associate Professor and Consultant Neonatologist at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya (UM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A UM MBBS graduate herself, she received further training in paediatrics and neonatology at the Paediatric Institute of Hospital Kuala Lumpur and in Dublin, Eire. She is the present Head of the Department of Paediatrics. Her passion for paediatric bioethics led her to complete her certification in Paediatric Bioethics from Children’s Mercy Hospital, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA in 2016. Besides teaching paediatrics and neonatology, she also teaches the Special Population course of the Masters of Health in Research Ethics (MOHRE) programme, with interests in neonatal end-of-life issues, the impact of medical innovations, technology dependence, shared decisions, and sociocultural influences in decision-making. She is also a keen advocate of quality improvement initiatives, research in infection control, innovative neonatal engineering, neonatal ventilation, neonatal transport, resource allocation, and infant nutrition. She champions prematurity awareness by promoting awareness of complications related to preterm births. She is a past President of the Perinatal Society of Malaysia (Council 2016/2017); a member of the Malaysian Bioethics Community (MBC) and Clinical Ethics Malaysia (CEM); team member of the South East Asia Early Nutrition Academy (ENEA-SEA) e-learning infant nutrition platform under EU-Erasmus e-learning collaboration; the head of the Research and Publications committee of the Federation of Asia-Oceania Perinatal Societies (FAOPS); steering committee member of the Malaysian National Neonatal Registry (MNNR); scientific chairperson of the FAOPS 2022 congress; a champion of the Malaysian Prematurity Awareness Programme; a past Organising/ Scientific Chair of the Kuala Lumpur International Neonatology Conference (KLINC) and is a member of the Lancet Child Health Commission on the Future of Neonatology advising group.