Dr. Chew Cheng Hoon (MD, MPH) is a medical doctor working in Institute for Clinical Research with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled in Epidemiology, Clinical Medicine, Healthcare Information Technology (HIT), Healthcare, Healthcare Management and Health Education. Strong healthcare services professional graduated from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
Yip Yan Yee is a Research Pharmacist working at Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Institute for Clinical Research, National Institutes of Health. She completed her Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree at University of Strathclyde in 2013. She obtained her Master in Clinical Pharmacy (MSc Clinical Pharmacy) at Queen’s University in 2018.
Dato' Dr Goh Pik Pin is the director of Institute for Clinical Research and ophthalmologist in Ministry of Health, Malaysia. After graduating from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 1988, she obtained a Master of Medicine from the National University of Singapore (1994), Master in Ophthalmology from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (1995), Master in Public Health/Public Health Ophthalmology from Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University (2001). She contributed to the launch of the Entry Point Project on Clinical Research Malaysia, which was part of the National Key Economic Areas under the Economic Transformation Program. She is one of the directors of Clinical Research Malaysia, a government-owned corporation established to promote industry-sponsored research in Malaysia, and a member of the MOH Medical Research Ethics Committee.
Dato’ Dr Goh was involved in various international and national research projects and played an important role in a few population-based studies such as National Eye Survey, Refractive Error Study in Children, National Health and Morbidity Survey and World Health Survey. She was part of the team that set the standard in cataract surgery. She has published many peer-reviewed articles in local and international journals and has been awarded the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Award, the Prime Minister’s Award, Malaysia in 2000, Outstanding Service in Prevention of Blindness Award by the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology in 2011 and conferred the Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri (D.S.P.N), carrying the title Dato’, by Yang di-Pertua Negeri Pulau Pinang on July 17, 2018.
Dr. Kalaiarasu M Peariasamy is the Director for the Institute for Clinical Research, National Institutes of Health, with responsibilities for 36 Clinical Research Centres with the Ministry of Health Malaysia. In this role, he chairs the Vaccine Selection Technical Working Group (TWG) of the special COVID-19 vaccine committee (JKJAV) Malaysia.
Dr. Kalaiarasu has led the development, implementation and conduct of numerous clinical research and trials for healthcare programs. He is an internationally featured speaker on topics related to cleft lip and palate and traumatology. Dr. Kalaiarasu has published in indexed journals and authored chapters in textbooks. In 2017, he was admitted as Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh without examination and in 2020 as Adjunct Professor at Taylor’s School of Medicine, Malaysia.
