Dr Shiaw-Hooi Ho is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Department of Medicine, Universiti Malaya. He is also a Senior Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist and Therapeutic Endoscopist in both the UM Medical Centre (UMMC) and UM Specialist Centre (UMSC). Dr Ho received his basic medical degree in 2001 and went on to obtain his Master’s Degree in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Gastroenterology from Universiti Malaya in 2009 and 2012 respectively. He underwent further advanced endoscopy training in many international endoscopy centres of excellence most notably, the National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. He is active in promoting the use of image-enhanced endoscopy and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) both in the detection and management of early gastrointestinal (GI) neoplasia and cancer. In his routine endoscopy work, he performs numerous other diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopies such as peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection (STER), biliopancreatic endoscopy, small bowel enteroscopy, etc. His other areas of expertise include the management of various GI disorders and chronic liver diseases.

Dr Ho is an associate editor of the BioMed Central Gastroenterology and an international advisor of the Advances in Digestive Medicine, both are peer-reviewed journals. He is a councillor member of the Asia Pacific Society of Digestive Endoscopy (APSDE) and a Fellow of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society (JGES). He is also a faculty member of both the Asia Pacific Endoscopy Research Forum (AERF) and the Asian Novel Bio-Imaging & Intervention Group (ANBIIG). Apart from endoscopy, he is the co-chairman and board member of the Medical Working Group (MWG) of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) which is active in organizing various international teleconferences among healthcare practitioners. 

His past contributions and positions are as below:

i) Scientific Committee of ENDO2024, 4th World Congress of GI Endoscopy;

ii) Scientific Co-Chair of Endoscopy for Asian Pacific Digestive Week (APDW) 2021

iii) Director of the Combined Endoscopy Unit, UMMC (2020 to 2024)

iv) Course Director for UM annual endoscopy workshop (2020-2024), done in collaboration with the Malaysian Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (MSGH)