Dr Koh Peng Soon graduated in 2002 with MBBS from the International Medical University. He first gained experience in Surgery working as a medical officer in the Department of Surgery, Hospital Taiping right after internship where he obtained his Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (MRCSEd), UK in 2005. He joined University of Malaya in 2006 for postgraduate training and graduated with Masters of Surgery (MSurg) in 2010. He worked as a General Surgeon in Hospital Sungai Buloh after graduation before rejoining University of Malaya as a Senior Lecturer and Clinical Specialist in 2011 for sub-specialty training and his interest in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery.   In October 2013 to September 2014, he spent a year as a Fellow and Honorary Clinical Associate at the Division of Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong which is world renowned.               His interest in HPB field involves HPB malignancies, minimal invasive surgery (MIS) and liver transplantation. Besides clinical duties, he is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching as well as research and already has several publications to his name.               He received his promotion to Associate Professorship in early 2019 and  is currently the Head of HPB Unit and Consultant Surgeon in the Department of Surgery, University of Malaya Medical Centre.

    Dr Ilhaamie is currently serving as Editor in Chief of Online Journal of Islamic Management and Finance (OJIMF) at her department.  She is an Associate Professor at Department of Syariah and Management, Academy of Islamic Studies, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.  She had obtained her PhD at USM, MBA from UKM and BBA, IIUM.  Her current research interests are human resource management, entrepreneurship, service quality and Islamic management.  To date, she has authored and co-authored books, book chapters, journal, newspaper articles and conference papers. She has presented her papers in UAE, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Turkey, Cambodia, Australia, Korea, Thailand, Spain, Italy and UK. Four of her papers have won best paper award at the international conferences. She also had been a key note speaker for two international conferences at Singapore and Malaysia. Her research teams also won diamond, silver and bronze medals in research poster competition locally and internationally. Furthermore, she was awarded as Visiting Fellow at University of Wollongong, Australia and Universiti Malaysia Kelantan in 2013 and Visiting Scholar at International Islamic University Malaysia in 2019. Due to her excellence work service, she was bestowed with Excellence Service Awards in 2003, 2010 and 2018 respectively, and a certificate of Excellence Service from University of Malaya in 2011.  Due to her passion in research, she is registered with Global Agency Research, International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology for life time member, Migration Research Center as associate member and Islamic Management Center as Head of researchers.  On top of that, she was appointed as panel reviewer/assessor for research grants, university education programs, international conferences, books, theses, article journals and promotion applications locally such as MQA and internationally such as OECD.  She also had served as the Head of Department that she affiliated with from 2002 to 2003 and 2008 till 2011, PhD programme Coordinator from 2014 till 2016 and Head of Unit of Leadership and Wellbeing, ADeC from 2021 to 2022. Prior to that, she was the External Relation Coordinator in 2001. She also had trained government officers pertaining to moderation leadership in 2018 at INTAN. Due to her passion in human resource management, she is registered as Associate Member at Malaysian Institute of Human Resource Management and Majlis Profesor Negara. Last but not least, she had organized 4 national conferences so far pertaining to moderation, islamic finance, islamic entrepreneurship and Muslim intellectuals.  

Graduate of University College Dublin (National University Ireland) in 2005, she obtained Intercollegiate MRCS 2008 and completed Irish Basic Surgical Training (CCBST) in Royal College of Surgeons Ireland 2009. Upon returning to Malaysia, she completed Master of Surgery in University of Malaya 2013, whilst serving as trainee lecturer to University Malaya Medical Programme.  Upon appointment as specialist 2014, she continues as lecturer and Consultant and is the Surgical Co-ordinator for 3.3 UMMP undergraduate Medical Programme and Trainee Examiner for Postgraduate Master of Surgery as well as the Surgical Co-ordinator for Dental Faculty, Universiti Malaya. She sub-specialised in Colorectal Surgery, training in UM, UKM and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney and is currently the Head of Colorectal Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery UM. She is also recently appointed as Committee Member and Trainer for National Colorectal Surgery Fellowship Programme. She is actively involved in national surgical training spearheading surgical development of online E- portfolio as per National Curriculum NPMC and is Conjoint Board of Surgery, Master of Surgery Examiner. She is currently Co-Director of CCriSP Programme with College of Surgeons Malaysia and Royal College of Sugeons England and is a NOTSS Course Instructor with Royal College Of Surgeons Edinburgh. She is the local UM liason for co-ordination of RCSE's MRCS and JSCFE FRCS examinations and now Consultant Colorectal Surgeon in UMMC.  She has a keen interest in advanced colorectal cancer surgery including Pelvic Exenteration, Cytoreductive Surgery and HIPEC as well as PIPAC and is Malaysian representative in PelvEx Collaborative. She has helped set up and continue the multidisciplinary, multicentre teamwork for extended resections in advanced GI malignancy in Universiti Malaya and in the country.