Dr Ananthi Krishnamoorthy

Dr Krishnamoorthy is a medical doctor with diverse experience in rehabilitation medicine, primary care & occupational health. She has varied her career including stints at the Blood Management Center St Luke’s Hospital, Kansas City, USA, and the Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery UPENN, Pennsylvania, PA USA.

Dr Sharmini Diana Parampalam

Dr Sharmini has been involved in PBM since 2017. She is a believer that PBM should be practiced across all disciplines after witnessing that the usage of blood has reduced tremendously in her department after the implementation of PBM. Dr Sharmini is passionate about the importance of assessing the patient as a whole.

Dr Yap Yee Yee (Mandy)

Dr. Mandy is a clinical haematologist based in Ampang Hospital. She completed a fellowship in haemostasis and thrombosis with PBM in Perth, Australia. Dr. Mandy developed a special interest in implementing PBM in practice and hopes that PBM can become the game changer especially as blood supply is difficult during this COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Pau Kiew Kong

Dr. Pau Kiew Kong is a Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon who practices at Institut Jantung Negara. He specialises in Adult cardiac surgery, Paediatric and congenital cardiac surgery, and Thoracic surgery. Dr Pau has performed more than 11,000 Heart surgeries since the beginning of his career and is a keen PBM advocate.

Dr Rohani binti Ramliy

Dr Rohani Ramliy is an anaesthesiologist who is currently working at the Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital in Kuala Terengganu. She has more than 20 years of experience in the management of peri-operative multidiscipline surgical cases. Dr Rohani is also a member of the Hospital Transfusion and Patient Safety Committee in Kuala Terengganu.

Dr Shahnaz Irwani binti Sabri

Dr Irwani is a Transfusion Medicine Specialist who works at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Sabah. She was appointed Head of Transfusion Medicine Service in Sabah in 2011 and is a member of the International Society of Blood Transfusion’s working party on Platelet & Granulocytes Immunobiology, she is planning to establish the service in Sabah.

Dr Ahlam Naila binti Kori

Dr Ahlam is a clinical haematologist based in the Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan and also serves as the state haematologist in Pahang. Her main interests are haemostasis, thrombosis and PBM.

Dr Ahlam is a regular speaker at conferences and workshops and is also involved in writing the national clinical practice guidelines for Thalassaemia.

Dr Veena a/p Selvaratnam

Dr Veena is a Haematologist in Hospital Ampang, with special interest in coagulation and haemostasis. Her keen interest in PBM stems from managing patients with bleeding disorders leading to anaemia. Under the guidance of Dr Jameela, she has managed many anaemic patients with alternative therapies, avoiding blood transfusion; this continues to be her current practise.

Dr Kevin Ng Wei Shan

Dr Kevin Ng is an anaesthesiologist and medical lecturer with a passion for advocating better PBM in the perioperative patient. He has a keen interest in improving the usage and conservation of blood perioperatively and is keen to push research forward in these areas. Dr Kevin has lectured widely on the subject in Malaysia.

Dr Asral Wirda binti Ahmad Asnawi

Dr. Asnawi, is a Haematopathologist and Associate Professor at Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia. One of her first publications was on the importance of red cell molecular genotyping in transfusion-dependent thalassaemia patients. Apart from her many research interests in molecular genetics, she strives to increase awareness regarding the need of PBM among colleagues and medical students.

Dr Ong Chiew Ping

Dr Ong graduated as Transfusion Medicine Specialist from Universiti Sains Malaysia. She is actively involved in implementing Haemovigilance and Patient Blood Management Programmes in Malaysia. Dr Ong has been invited as speaker in various national and international conferences to present in the field of Clinical Transfusion and Patient Blood Management.

Dr Sharifah Suryani Bt Syed Rahim Shah

Dr Sharifah Suryani Bt Syed Rahim Shah is a Physician and Adult Haematologist in the Hospital Kuala Lumpur. She is very passionate about patient blood management and has been involved with PBM in Malaysia since 2015. Dr Sharifah is one of the MyPBM society committee members.

Dr. Ina Ismiarti Shariffuddin

Dr Ina Ismiarti Shariffuddin is a professor of Anaesthesia in the University Malaya. As an anaesthetist she truly advocates the principles of PBM in her day-to-day practice and strive for the paradigm shift in perioperative blood transfusion practices in Malaysia. She is a regular speaker at national conferences.