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(IMU). He had been formerly been Director of the Institute for Medical Research (IMR) and has worked as a consultant to the

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. He was Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Lymphatic Filariasis. He was a Professor of Pathology at the

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for three years before joining IMU. He was elected President of Malaysian Society of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine in 1982 was the founding Editor of its Journal, ''Tropical Biomedicine'', from 1985 to 1987. He held an

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from the

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(1967), a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the

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(1976), and Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the University of Singapore (1980). He became a Fellow of the

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in 1995.

Awards

*National Science Award, 1985 *Merdeka Award, 2011

References

Academic staff of the International Medical University Malaysian medical doctors Tropical physicians Malaysian people of Chinese descent Malaysian pathologists Malaysian parasitologists People from Penang 1942 births 2024 deaths {{Malaysia-bio-stub

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