YOUNG PHYSICIAN LEADERS Asia Programme

PROFILES

2012 YPL participants

1. Mohd Feizel ALSIDDIQ Malaysia

2. Lakmali AMARASIRI Sri Lanka

3. Chanmaly KEOMANY Laos

4. Hazera KHATUN Bangladesh

5. Thiam Seong Christopher LIM Malaysia

6. Muntasir RAHMAN Bangladesh

7. Maria Eliza RAYMUNDO Philippines

8. Mark Anthony SANDOVAL Philippines

9. Thi Dieu Ngan TA Vietnam

10. Bach Tran XUAN Vietnam

Alumni from the 2012 YPL

1. Joycie Eulah Abiera, Philippines

2. Lim Wei-Yen , Singapore

Observer 1. NGO Gia Khanh, Vietnam

1. Dr. Mohd Feizel ALSIDDIQ Malaysia

Mohd Feizel Alsiddiq is a Consultant Paediatrician and Paediatric Neurologist as well as a senior medical lecturer at the department of paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia(UPM). He graduated from National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland in 1997. Following a clinical posting in a rural district hospital in East Malaysia, he underwent his paediatric residency training in University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur and graduated with Master in Paediatrics in 2005. He also obtained his membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health(MRCPCH ),United Kingdom in 2004. He pursued his interest in paediatric neurology and was trained in UKM Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur.In 2010 , he undertook a 1-year fellowship in epilepsy and neurophysiology with the Division of Neurology,Children's Hospital of Philadelphia , Philadelphia PA,United States of America. Upon his return, he founded the paediatric neurology unit at Hospital Serdang,Selangor,Malaysia which is the main teaching hospital of the UPM Medical school. He was appointed as the Head of Department, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine , UPM in May 2011. He is currently the chairperson of the Chapter of Child Neurology and Paediatric Neurology of the Malaysian Society of Neurosciences (MSN) while being the honorary advisor of the Malaysian Society of Epilepsy and the UPM Medical Student Society. In view of his interest in childhood epilepsy ,

he has been involved in research projects on antiepileptics, quality of life in epilepsy , occipital epilepsy, febrile seizures and Genetics of early infantile epileptic encephalopathy in malaysia.

2. Lakmali AMARASIRI Sri Lanka

Dr Lakmali Amarasiri is a senior lecturer in Physiology with a special interest in respiratory and gastro-intestinal physiology. She teaches physiology to undergraduate and post-graduate students and school children through outreach activities of the Physiological Society of Sri Lanka. She is also a resource person in pulmonary function testing techniques and interpretation workshops. Her post-graduate thesis was based on the relationship between bronchial asthma and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, for which she was awarded the Professor K.N. Seneviratne Memorial Research Award for outstanding postgraduate research in Physiology in 2012. She continues to engage in research on those two disease entities and has published widely in this area. She also performs spirometry, gastric emptying, oesophageal pH monitoring and manometry as a service function. She obtained training in pulmonary function testing from the Department of Allergy and Immunology, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. She aims to establish a state-of-the-art pulmonary function testing unit in the faculty to provide affordable services to the community, to improve the quality of diagnosis and management of respiratory diseases, improve teaching and provide research opportunities for post-graduate

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students and has applied and been shortlisted for a Commonwealth Academic Fellowship award to further training in pulmonary function testing at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK for this purpose. She is council member of the Physiological Society of Sri Lanka and a member of the Allergy & Immunology Society of Sri Lanka & World Allergy & Immunology Society and of the World Allergy Organization (WAO). At faculty level she has served as the General Secretary of the Kelaniya Medical School Alumni Association, and is an active member in various faculty activities. During her school days she has served as a prefect, Head Prefect, games prefect and head of various school committees.

3. Dr. Chanmaly KEOMANY Laos

Name & Family name: Dr. Chanmaly Keomany (Mrs), born 26th April, 1973 Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR, Lao Nationality, Married, three children, Telephone (Home): (856-21) 212824, Mobile Phone: (856-20) 55610997, E-mail: chanmalykeomany@yahoo.com Education: 1988 -1995: Studied in the Medical Faculty, National University of Lao PDR (NUOL). Awarded a Certificate of Medicine (Bachelor Degree) 2005-2008: Studied in the Medical Sciences University of Laos (Internal Medicine: Resident) 2009-2011: Fellowship Studies conducted at the Chulalongkorn University(King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital ) Employment : Oct 1995-Jun 1997: Worked in the Emergency

Department at Mittaphab Hospital (MH), l. Jul 1997- Jun 1998: Worked in the Internal Medicine Department at MH Jul 1998-Feb 2005, Nov 2008-May 2009, June 2011-Present: Work in the Nephrology Department at MH, Fax: 856-21-710005, Phone tong Road, Chanthabouly District, Vientiane Capital, PO Box: 6035 Training, Workshop and Meeting abroad: February 2013 (4 days) Huahine, Thailand- Kidney Week, October-Nobember 2012 (6days) California USA-American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week,

4. Dr. Hazera KHATUN Bangladesh

Dr. Hazera Khatun is a Haematologist. Her clinical interest is in haematological malignancies and her research is focused acute leukaemia and multiple myeloma. She graduated from Dhaka Medical College, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2004 with honours in Anatomy. She started fellowship training in Haematology from 2006 at Dhaka Medical College Hospital and BSM Medical University. She was awarded a Commonwealth scholarship to study MSc in Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at King’s College, London in 2009. Her main area of interest was translational research in Haematology and she worked to identify novel drug targets in multiple myeloma. She is an expert in cell culture, flow cytometry and western blot. She worked with the myeloma research group to develop a novel high through put assay to test anti-myeloma agents. She became a fellow of Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons upon completion of training and passing fellowship examination in July 2012. Her thesis was on

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aspiration failure and bone marrow biopsy. Currently, she is working a specialist in haematology in Square Hospital, Bangladesh. She is responsible for management of malignant and non-malignant haematological diseases and supervision of the residents. She is also responsible for reviewing flow cytometry, bone marrow and blood films of the acute leukaemia patients. Her current research projects include a clinical trial on acute promyelocytic leukaemia and outcome of induction by CALGB8811 in adult acute lymphoblastic leukaemia patients. She has research collaboration with haematology centers at other institutes for epidemiological study of acute leukaemia and actively participates in development of consensus protocols for treatment of acute leukaemia in Bangladesh. She is a member of Bangladesh Society of Haematology and coordinates a group of haematologists for research in leukaemia and lymphoma. She has publications in both national and internationally acclaimed journals including British Journal of Haematology, Journal of Medicine and Medicine Today. Works from her research on multiple myeloma has been presented at annual meetings of American Society of Hematology in 2010 and 2011.

5. Dr. Thiam Seong Christopher LIM Malaysia

Dr Christopher Lim graduated from Queen’s University of Belfast, UK with distinctions. He subsequently completed his internal medicine training in UK and was awarded the Membership Of the Royal College of Physician

(UK) in 2001. Subsequently he took up the offer of Advance Specialty Training post in nephrology by in Singapore General Hospital. He completed his specialty training in Nephrology in Singapore and was admitted as Fellow in Academy of Medicine of Singapore (Nephrology) in 2005. His areas of interest are intervention nephrology, renal replacement therapy and glomerulonephritis. During this training, he was one of the front liners against SARS outbreak and he was awarded medal of bravery by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Dr Lim was awarded the Fellowship of Royal College of Physician of Edinburgh (FRCP) in 2011.Dr Christopher Lim returned to Malaysia to join Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2005. He is the founding member of the nephrology unit and has been holding the post of head of nephrology unit since 2006. He also holds the post of associate professor of medicine.His research interest is in the field of glomerulonephritis, peritoneal dialysis and intervention nephrology.

6. Dr. Muntasir RAHMAN Bangladesh.

Muntasirur Rahman graduated from Dhaka Medical College in Bangladesh in 1999. He completed MS in Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health, USA in 2005. Dr. Rahman is working at the centre for Child and Adolescent Health (CCAH) of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) since 2001. An international health research institution located in Bangladesh, ICDDR,B has a mix of national and international staff. In collaboration with academic and research

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institutions throughout the world, ICDDR,B conducts research, training and translates knowledge from research into policy to develop and share knowledge for global lifesaving solutions. Dr. Rahman is involved with the MPH programme of James P Grant School of Public Health of BRAC University as a faculty. He has published several articles in peer reviewed journals and actively participated in scientific conferences at home and abroad. He works closely with the Government of Bangladesh and development partners and is also involved with mentoring of young researchers at ICDDR,B. He loves to travel, meet new people and read both fiction and non-fictions.

7. Dr. Maria Eliza RAYMUNDO Philippines

Dr. Eliza Raymundo obtained her BS and MD degrees through the Integrated Liberal Arts and Medicine program of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. She completed her residency training in urologic surgery at the Philippine General Hospital. Upon completion, she was chosen as an International Scholar of Surgery of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, allowing her to spend 18 months at the Center for Prostate Disease Research in Maryland USA as a post-doctoral fellow. She then became the Gyrus-ACMI Fellow for Endourology at the Duke University Medical Center through a grant from the Endourological Society. Dr. Raymundo then returned to the Philippines and joined the faculty of the University of the Philippines

Manila. She is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, where she chairs the Research Management committee of the National Institutes of Health, and a Clinical Associate Professor of the Philippine General Hospital's Department of Surgery. Likewise, she is cross-appointed as Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. She is an active member of the Philippine Urological Association, fellow of the Philippine College of Surgeons, and a board-certified urologic surgeon practicing in Manila. She has multiple publications in local and international ISI-journals, focusing on her research interests that include prostate cancer, urologic infectious diseases, and translational research for urologic oncology. In 2013, Dr. Raymundo was chosen as an International Guest Scholar of the American College of Surgeons. 8. Dr. Mark Anthony SANDOVAL

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Dr. Mark Anthony Sandoval obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree, cum laude, from the University of the Philippines (UP) Manila, graduating as salutatorian. He completed residency training in internal medicine and fellowship training in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism both at the UP-Philippine General Hospital. He is board-certified in internal medicine and endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism. He is presently a Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Physiology and Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine of the UP College of Medicine and Philippine General Hospital.

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Dr. Sandoval has engaged himself in various activities as a physician. As a clinician, he provides compassionate and competent care to his patients, opting to stay in the country to serve Filipino patients. He strives to make sure his patients are well-informed, that they have learned something new every time they see him in his clinic. As an educator, he is known for his passion in teaching learners in medicine – medical students, residents and fellows alike. As a researcher, he has endeavored in locally-relevant researches such as determining the effects of a popular indigenous plant on lipid levels, trying to prove or disprove anecdotal reports using the scientific method. He is likewise involved in a community diabetes care program in the rural town of San Juan, Batangas, empowering diabetics in this area where there are no endocrinologists. His leadership skills have been proven during his stints as chief resident and as chief fellow. With these roles, Dr. Sandoval is becoming the 5-start physician that the University of the Philippines College of Medicine endeavors its graduates to be. Dr. Sandoval has been awarded as one of the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines in 2003. Also, he was the Most Outstanding Resident in Internal Medicine, a distinction given by the Philippine College of Physicians in 2007. Dr. Sandoval has this insight regarding how he is able to share his expertise in endocrinology in various ways: “Endocrinology is admittedly a specialty that is dependent on high-tech laboratory tests and its practice is usually hospital- and clinic-based. However, being involved in a community diabetes care program in the rural town of San Juan, Batangas, I have seen how my being an endocrinologist can be relevant to people in the grassroots level. Our group goes to the rural villages and we teach diabetics there about diabetes self-management education, a program that has empowered these patients who have little access to specialist care, if at all. Thus, aside from my patients in the hospital and clinics and my students in medical school, I have applied and shared my knowledge in endocrinology to a much wider audience -- the ordinary Filipinos out there in the countryside.”

9. Dr Thi Dieu Ngan TA Vietnam

Dr Ta Thi Dieu Ngan is an Infectious Diseases Physician from the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases (NHTD) and a lecturer in the Department of Infectious Diseases, Hanoi Medical University. She graduated from Hanoi Medical University as a medical doctor in 1996 and finished Infectious Diseases residency at NHTD, Hanoi Medical University in 2000. She completed one year fellowship on Infectious Diseases in Hospital Lapitié Salpêtrière, France in 2005. She has had many experiences on Infectious Diseases and has involved in various research such as viral hepatitis, dengue hemorragic fever, influenza, hand food and mouth diseases. Her articles have been published in the National and International journal. She is also the member of Scientific Commitee and the secretary of Ethic Committee of NHTD. Now she is the Vice director of Training Center, Head of Scientific Research Management Department, National Hospital of Tropical Diseases.

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10. Dr Bach Tran XUAN Vietnam

Dr. Bach Tran is a lecturer in Health Economics at Hanoi Medical University in Vietnam. His research interests primarily focus on applying decision analytic modeling to inform the development and evaluation of health technologies and policies. He has been intensively working with UN agencies, international organizations, and governments on global health and development issues in South-East Asia. Much of his work centers on determining cost-effective interventions, assessing health technologies, and strengthening health systems, particularly related to HIV/AIDS and emerging diseases in the region. Dr. Bach Tran earned his BSc in Public Health from Hanoi School of Public Health, Vietnam (2006), and a PhD in Health Policy from the University of Alberta, Canada (2011). During his doctoral training, he was awarded the Charles WB Gravett Memorial Scholarship for superior academic achievement in health care planning and evaluation. His doctoral work aimed to examine the cost-effectiveness of scaling up methadone and antiretroviral treatment in injection-driven HIV epidemics. He also received an Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions award for his postdoctoral studies which evaluated the lifetime outcomes and return-on-investment for population health interventions for the prevention of obesity. Dr. Bach Tran completed a postgraduate certificate program at Johns Hopkins University (2011), and was an ASEAN Research Scholar at National University of Singapore (2008).

2012 YPL Following the last session of the IAMP Young Physician leaders programme in conjunction with the WHS 2012, 2 of the 2012 participants have been invited back to share the “Leadership Lessons Learnt from the IAMP/WHS Experience”

Dr Joycie Eulah Abiera,

Dr Joycie Eulah Abiera, completed her residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and her fellowship training in Prosthetics and Orthotics at the University of the Philippines – Philippine General Hospital. She had her Honorary Fellowship training in Pediatric Prosthetics and Orthotics at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago under Dr Deborah Gaebler-Spira and Dr Stefania Fatone (Research Mentor). She was also a recipient of the Hand Rehabilitation Foundation Educational Program at Philadelphia Hand Center and the Mentor– Mentee Program with Nancy Hylton at Children’s Center at Kent. Dr Abiera was also a Cascade Dafo, Inc Funded Fellow and a Physicians for Peace volunteer. She is also a member of the Research Committee of the Department of Rehabilitation, University of the Philippines – Philippine General Hospital. Her research interests have been involved with the

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management of spasticity, gait analysis, cerebral palsy and pediatric prosthetics and orthotics. She is currently the Assistant Head of the Prosthetics and Orthotics and the Head of Pediatric Prosthetics and Orthotics of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of the Philippines – Philippine General Hospital.

Dr. Lim Wei-Yen , Singapore

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Lim Wei-Yen [MBBS (Singapore) 1998, MPH (Harvard) 2005, PhD (Singapore) 2012] is a public health physician. He worked at the Ministry of Health, Singapore, for about 8 years, where he participated in developing health programmes and policies for Singapore. His area of work was primarily in the epidemiology and control of non-communicable and mental health diseases. He subsequently joined the National University of Singapore as Assistant Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in 2011. He currently manages a research unit at the School that is focused on developing population-based studies in Singapore. He runs both a chronic disease cohort study, where participants are being re-visited to update exposure information, and annual nationally-representative surveys of health status and health behaviours of Singaporeans. He hopes that this unit will in time become a

national resource centre for the conduct of population-based studies, and will be a source of useful and timely health information for health policy makers and other healthcare sector stakeholders. OBSERVER

Dr. Ngo Gia Khanh, Vietnam

My name is Ngo Gia Khanh, 31 years old. I’m working at Abdominal Surgery Department of Vietnam Military Hospital 103. I’m married and we have one daughter.

I graduated medical doctor in 2007 after 7 – year learning at Vietnam Military Medical University. After that it took me 4 years to work and study as intern doctor. I was one in only two intern doctors this year. In this time I also finished my degree of Master in general surgery. My thesis is “The expression of p53 and Ki-67 in rectum cancer and the relation with some patient’s prognosis factors “.

I’ve been working at my department for about one year and a half. I’m intersted in abdominal cancer treatment and laparoscopic surgery.

In February 2013, I gained the certificate of practical lecture, so I can help medical students to improve their clinical skills.