DR. NASRIAH BINTI ZAKARIA

Dr. Nasriah Zakaria is an Associate Professor at ehealth unit, Dean’s office in Faculty of Medicine. She is the head of Health Informatics division to oversee the development of Master of Health Informatics curriculum and the teachings of Health Informatics at undergraduate level. Prior to this Dr. Nasriah Zakaria was an assistant professor at Medical Informatics and e-learning unit, Medical Education Department, College of Medicine at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia from 2012-2020. She was also a senior lecturer at School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia from 2006-2016. Dr. Nasriah obtained her Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering and Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA in 1997 and 2001 respectively. In 2006, Dr. Nasriah attained her doctorate in Information Science and Technology from Syracuse University, USA. Dr. Nasriah also obtained Certification in Medical Informatics (10x10) from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in 2008. Dr. Nasriah is the Principal Investigator for 3 grants on Information Privacy Requirements for Cancer Web Portal, Acceptance of Teleconsultation System for Breast Self-Examination (BSE) and Factors that Influencing Medical Teams’ Communicative Behaviors: The culture of IT Adoption. Her latest work includes e-health literacy scale for non-communicative disease, Hospital Information System Management and Privacy aspect of Psychiatric Behavior monitoring system.