On duty · Director Clinical, SASMEC @IIUM
Consultant Emergency Physician / Disaster Medicine
An emergency physician working where clinical care, disaster preparedness and health system governance meet — the systems a hospital falls back on when the ordinary day stops, and the people who run them.
00 / 09Career telemetry
A career that has run on several tracks at once. Each lane is a distinct line of duty — the overlaps are the point. Hover a bar for the full title.
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01 / 09Profile
A healthcare executive and academic physician whose work spans hospital governance, emergency medicine, disaster preparedness, quality improvement, accreditation, research governance, humanitarian response and medical education.
He founded the Emergency Disaster and Crisis Centre at SASMEC @IIUM and stood up the hospital's COVID-19 taskforce, its patient flows, protocols and reference guidelines. He was the first Head of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Kulliyyah of Medicine, IIUM, where he introduced undergraduate emergency medicine training in 2019.
He was the first Malaysian candidate accepted to the Disaster Medicine Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, publishing four disaster-related papers during training and holding a concurrent appointment as Research Fellow. In 2024 he was named an InterAcademy Partnership Young Physician Leader, and deployed with the WHO Emergency Medical Team to Rafah, Palestine.
He now serves as Director Clinical (Medical Services) at SASMEC @IIUM, accountable for clinical governance, quality and patient safety, hospital accreditation and service development.
02 / 09Appointments
Sultan Ahmad Shah Medical Centre @IIUM
Accountable for clinical governance, quality and patient safety, hospital accreditation, service development and operational leadership across the medical services portfolio.
Emergency and Trauma Department, SASMEC @IIUM
Kulliyyah of Medicine, IIUM
Teaching, assessment, curriculum development, research and innovation. Also serves as Research Coordinator for the Kulliyyah, with oversight of research activity, proposal development, scholarly productivity and institutional research performance.
SASMEC @IIUM, Kuantan
Advanced emergency care, staff education and training.
HoSHAS Temerloh · HRPB Ipoh · Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
Advanced trauma at HoSHAS; critical care and emergency ultrasound at HRPB.
Hospital Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah (HoSHAS), Temerloh
Internal Medicine, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Emergency and Trauma, Paediatrics.
IIUM service record · Staff No. 7125 · Grade DU15
03 / 09Leadership & governance
Institutional posts founded or held, the hospital committees he leads, and appointments beyond the institution.
Institutions founded and led
SASMEC @IIUM
Established the centre and ran the hospital COVID-19 taskforce — patient flows, protocols and reference guidelines. The EDCC managed all COVID-19 patients and served as the reference centre for COVID-19 management protocol.
Kulliyyah of Medicine, IIUM
Established undergraduate emergency medicine training from 2019.
SASMEC @IIUM
Best Department Award 2021 during his tenure. Initiated the hospital's prehospital care service through a Memorandum of Understanding with Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri Pahang in 2020.
Chair and deputy chair appointments · SASMEC @IIUM
Committee memberships
National and international
Kumpulan Hospital Universiti Awam Malaysia (KHUAM)
National leadership of the community network sustainability pillar across Malaysia's public university teaching hospitals.
World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM)
A platform for ASEAN member state collaboration in disaster and emergency medicine education. The chapter was formally established by the WADEM Board of Directors in August 2022.
Yayasan EZ Prihatin
Non-profit established August 2019 under the Legal Affairs Division, Prime Minister's Department. Appointed 27 February 2023.
InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) · programme delivered at ESMT Berlin
Atabara Emergency Medicine Society (ATEMS)
Malaysia Emergency Relief Team (MERT) — national disaster response NGO
Student Representative Council, Universiti Kuala Lumpur
04 / 09Humanitarian & disaster response
Field deployment · 2024 · World Health Organization Emergency Medical Team
Deployed during the ground invasion of 6 July 2024. Treated close to 500 patients over three weeks in a conflict-affected setting, and wrote the field account afterwards — Rafah's healthcare crisis: unveiling the dire reality, published in the Malaysian Journal of Emergency Medicine.
Medical and non-medical relief programmes across Malaysia.
Medical and non-medical relief operations nationwide.
Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Disaster exercise assessment and evaluation
05 / 09Research
Nine peer-reviewed journal articles indexed in Web of Science, Scopus and ERA, and one course manual. ORCID 0000-0003-1215-2151.
Research grants
SASMEC @IIUM Research Grant (SRG), IIUM · RM20,000 · Co-Researcher
SASMEC @IIUM Research Grant (SRG), IIUM · RM20,000 · Co-Researcher
Journal articles
Book
Shaik Farid Abdull Wahab, Lim KY, Mahathar Abd Wahab, Jamal AA, Ayub M, Mohamed Alwi Abdul Rahman, Idris N, … Nik Hisamuddin Nik Ab Rahman. Aquatic Life Support Society Malaysia. ISBN 978-629-96735-0-7.
Peer review and conference service
Conference presentations
06 / 09Teaching & assessment
Teaching portfolio · Kulliyyah of Medicine, IIUM
Examiner, assessor and evaluator
07 / 09Speaking & training delivery
Keynotes, continuing medical education, course facilitation and public forums — on disaster preparedness, incident command and emergency department leadership.
Media and public engagement
08 / 09Recognition
InterAcademy Partnership (IAP)
Programme delivered at ESMT Berlin, 11–12 October 2024.
Kulliyyah of Medicine, IIUM — for outstanding contribution in the role
Kulliyyah of Medicine, IIUM · Malaysia Research Assessment
SASMEC @IIUM
For leading the hospital COVID-19 taskforce and founding the Emergency Disaster and Crisis Centre.
Emergency and Trauma Department, SASMEC @IIUM — awarded during his tenure as Head of Department
International Islamic University Malaysia — for dedication as an IIUM front-liner during the COVID-19 pandemic
09 / 09Education & credentials
Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at BIDMC / Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Completed September 2022, with a concurrent appointment as Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School. Sponsored by the Ministry of Higher Education. First Malaysian candidate for the programme; four disaster-related papers published during training.
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan — conferred 21 March 2019
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur — conferred 6 August 2008
Professional registration
Disaster and emergency certification
Aquatic, wilderness and motorsport medicine
Education, quality and leadership
Core competencies