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Nadia Mohd Shahrom graduated from the Universiti Malaya with a Master of Medical Physics in 2023. She was awarded the Institute of Physics Engineering and Medicine (IPEM) Student Prize 2023 for her project during her studies, which recognises the best project among IPEM-accredited master’s courses in Malaysia. The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dato’ Professor Dr Yang Faridah Abdul Aziz, presented her with the certificate during one of her supervisors from the UK, Emeritus Professor Alan Perkins’s visit to the university in June 2024
Two medical physics PhD students from the Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, have achieved outstanding success in the 13th International Seminar on Medical Physics (ISMP) 2024, held on 29th – 30th April 2024.
Ms Nur Ammi Hamzah, a PhD student under the supervision of Associate Professor Dr. Jeannie Wong Hsiu Ding and Dr Tan Li Kuo have won the Best Oral Presenter. Her presentation title was “Implementation of Remote and Automatic Quality Control Program for Digital Imaging: A Single Centre Experience”
Dr Janatul Madinah Wahabi, a recent PhD graduate under the supervision of Associate Professor Dr. Jeannie Wong Hsiu Ding and Prof Ung Ngie Min was awarded the 1st runner-up for Best Oral Presenter. Her presentation was titled “Dose Rate App: Development of Temporal Assessment Tool for Radiation Workers during Nuclear and Radiological Emergency (NRE)”.
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Nadia won the Best Oral Presenter at the Malaysia Nuclear Medicine (MyNM) Conference 2023. Photo was taken with her supervisors, Dr Aik Hao Ng (left) and Professor Chai Hong Yeong (right).
We are pleased to announce that Ms. Umi Nabilah Ismail has been awarded an Early Career Medical Physicists Scholarship Award by the Winter Institute of Medical Physics for her work in investigating the feasibility of marrow adipose tissue quantification using MRI as a biomarker for β-thalassemia. The annual Winter Institute of Medical physics is a US professional meeting for researchers and professionals in the medical physics field. One of the core goals of the meeting is to support early career medical physicists with a diverse array of scholarship and mentoring opportunities. Of the many applicants, 18 early career medical physicists from 15 countries were chosen to present their projects in the final round of the competition at the virtual 2021 Winter Institute of Medical Physics meeting. Ms. Umi Nabilah Ismail is one of the top 4 individuals selected to be included in the “Class of 2021 Early Career Scholars” in the meeting.
Ms. Umi Nabilah Ismail is a 2nd year PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, supervised by Dr Azlan Che Ahmad, Prof Ng Kwan Hoong (Dept. Biomedical Imaging) and Dr Shasha Khairullah (Dept. of Medicine).
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17 December 2020 - We would like to congratulate our alumni Dr Noriah Jamal on receiving the AFOMP Outstanding Award. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Asia-Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (AFOMP), AFOMP decided to recognize the contributions of medical physicists from the AFOMP region. AFOMP has introduced the Outstanding Medical Physicist Award for medical physicists who worked in the AFOMP region for the last 20 years and put tremendous effort into the development of medical physics as a profession and as a subject, and into medical physics education & research. They also organized scientific activities in the AFOMP region to disseminate scientific knowledge for the welfare of the profession and society. A total of 21 outstanding medical physicists were awarded. They receive the award on an online event on 17 December 2020.
11 December 2020 - Heartiest congratulations to Professor Dr. Ng Kwan Hoong on receiving the 2020 Merdeka Award. He was named the recipient of the Outstanding Scholastic Achievement in recognition of his outstanding contribution in the education and pioneering work advancing the fields of medical physics and radiation medicine in Malaysia. The Merdeka Award recognises and honours excellent individuals and organisations whose works, and achievements have contributed to the nation's growth and inspired greatness in the people of Malaysia.
For more information about the achievement, please visit the Merdeka Award website, https://www.
11 December 2020 - The University of Malaya Master of Medical Physics coursework programme had successfully achieved re-accreditation by the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), United Kingdom. The accreditation is granted until 2024-2025 academic session. This programme is currently still the only programme that is accredited outside of the British Isle.
5 December 2020 - Two of our alumni won various awards in the 20th Asia-Oceania Congress on Medical Physics (AOCMP), in conjunction with the 18th South-East Asia Congress of Medical Physics (SEACOMP) held on 3 -5 December 2020.
1. Associate Professor Dr Ung Ngie Min from the Clinical Oncology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, is one of the recipients for the Southeast Asian Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (SEAFOMP) Young Leaders Award 2020. The award recognises young medical physics leaders in the region.
2. Mr Vannyat Ath, our alumni from 2013-2014 Master of Medical Physics coursework was also named as another of the recipients of Medical Physics (SEAFOMP) Young Leaders Award 2020. He is from Cambodia and current works as a medical physicist at the National Cancer Center, Cambodia.
3. Dr Ng Aik How, a clinical medical physicist in the Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, National Cancer Institute, won Excellent Oral Presentation Award in radiotherapy category. Dr Ng is also the founder and Chairman of the Ministry of Health Medical Physics Research Task Force, encourages cross-disciplinary research activities/collaborations among healthcare professionals, academia and industry partners.
Elly Kombo from Kenya received the Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarship to study Master of Medical Physics at the University of Malaya. Read more about his experience here.
A Master of Medical Physics student from Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya – Ms Tang Zi Ying won best oral presenter award during the 11th International Seminar on Medical Physics 2019. Her work titled “ A radiomics study of textural features using magnetic resonance imaging for classification of breast cancer subtypes” was co-supervised by AP Dr. Jeannie Wong, Dr. Tan Li Kuo, Prof. Dr. Kartini Rahmat.
