Dr Nortina Shahrizaila graduated from University of Nottingham Medical School, UK in 1997. She went on to complete her general medical training, specialist neurology training and doctorate degree in the UK before returning to Malaysia in 2009. As part of her specialist neurology and neurophysiology training, she worked at tertiary neurology centres including Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. She is currently employed as Consultant Neurologist at University Malaya Medical Centre as well as Professor of Neurology at University of Malaya. She has subspecialty clinical and research interests in the field of peripheral neuropathies, motor neurone disease/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and peripheral neurophysiology.

She is the President-Elect of the Pan-Asian Consortium for Treatment and Research in ALS (PACTALS) and Associate Editor of Clinical Neurophysiology Practice journal.