ADEEBA BINTI KAMARULZAMAN

PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE
University Malaya
Malaysia

Biography

Professor Adeeba Kamarulzaman graduated from Monash University in 1987 and trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Monash Medical Centre and Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. She is presently the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Yale University, USA. She established the Centre of Excellence for Research on AIDS (CERiA) that conducts multi-disciplinary research on HIV ranging from clinical to public health and policy research. Professor Kamarulzaman has used her clinical and academic leadership to engage in the national and community response to HIV/AIDS. She is currently Chairman of the Malaysian AIDS Foundation and an Executive Council member of the Malaysian AIDS Council, the peak HIV NGO in Malaysia. At the international level, Professor Kamarulzaman is presently an Executive Council Member of the International AIDS Society and a member of the UNAIDS Scientific Expert Panel on HIV. She has also been an advisor to numerous WHO committees on HIV/AIDS. She has played a key role in the establishment and ongoing activities and collaborations of a regional HIV research network initiative; TREAT Asia. Her achievements have been recognised through several national and international awards including the Tun Mahathir Science and the Merdeka Awards for her role as a member of the University of Malaya’s Nipah Investigative Team. She is the first recipient of the Advance Australia Global Award in the category of Alumni in 2012 and in April 2015 she was honoured with a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from her alma mater, Monash University. She also has the distinct honour of having been featured in both The Lancet and Science publications in 2013 and 2014 respectively.

Research Intrest

Infectious/Communicable Diseases (Specialist In Infectious Diseases NSR), Infectious Disease

List of Publications
Pik San Sit, Cindy Shuan Ju Teh, Nuryana Idris, I-Ching Sam, Sharifah Faridah Syed Omar, Helmi Sulaiman, Kwai Lin Thong, Adeeba Kamarulzaman and Sasheela Ponnampalavanar. (2017). Prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection and the molecular characteristics of MRSA bacteraemia over a two-year period in a tertiary teaching hospital in Malaysia. 17:274.DOI: 10.1186/s12879-017-2384-y (ISI-Indexed)
David C Lye, Sophia Archuleta, Sharifah F Syed-Omar, Jenny G Low, Helen M Oh, Yuan Wei, Dale Fisher, Sasheela S L Ponnampalavanar, Limin Wijaya, Linda K Lee, Eng-Eong Ooi, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Lucy C Lum, Paul A Tambyah, Yee-Sin Leo (2017) . Prophylactic platelet transfusion plus supportive care versus supportive care alone in adults with dengue and thrombocytopenia: a multicentre, open-label, randomised, superiority trial, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(17)30269-6 (ISI-Indexed)
Naidu Sivaraj, Ponnampalvanar Sasheela, Kamaruzzaman Shahrul Bahyah, and Kamarulzaman Adeeba. Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome Among People Living with HIV in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review. AIDS Patient Care and STDs. January 2017, 31(1): 1-13. doi:10.1089/apc.2016.0140. (ISI-Indexed)