CDHRi

Digital Health Research and Innovation

In this IR4.0 era, digital health has the potential to transform medical fields and address challenges in an innovative way. In parallel with these growing demands of technology literacy and fluency, there is a growing recognition that conventional clinical research should be expanded into this territory. What is currently lacking can be completed via systematically engaging with field experts, training of accredited staff and allocating resources to boost these types of initiatives.

Therefore, Digital Health Research and Innovation (DHRi) Unit aims to identify, address, explore, and eventually apply these disruptive digital health solutions into the real world. It is hard to predict the trajectory of a digital health project, especially the outcome and side effects. With this unit as a platform, we strive to ensure safe ethical conduct of digital health research while assisting the growth of technologies.

By incorporating active considerations and good clinical practice into the digital health research framework, DHRi may well become a unique source of innovation and creativity; generating valuable research outputs to the Ministry of Health, Malaysia.

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NAME	POSITION	QUALIFICATION	EMAIL
Dr. Mohan Dass Pathmanathan	Medical Officer	MD	drmohandass@moh.gov.my
Azliza Binti Sazali	Administrative Assistant	Diploma in Secretary	azliza.sazali@moh.gov.my
William Law Kian Boon	Pharmacist (Head)	BPharm (Hons), MSc(Stat)	kblaw@crc.moh.gov.my
Dr. Ravi Ramadah	Medical Officer	MD	ravi.ramadah@moh.gov.my
Dr. Audrey Tanusha Soosay	Medical Officer		audrey.tanusha@moh.gov.my
Dr. Kuan Pei Xuan	Medical Officer	MD, MScCT	kuanpx@crc.moh.gov.my
Dr. Mohd Aizuddin Abd Rahman*	Medical Officer	MBBS, BBiomed (Hons)	drmohdaizu@crc.moh.gov.my
Muhamad Rasydan Bin Zainal	Assistant Research Officer	Diploma in Biotechnology	rasydan@crc.moh.gov.my
Khairul Anam Bin Mohd Isa	Personel MySTEP
Wan Nabila Binti Wan Hanafi	Personel MySTEP
Munira Binti Mohamed Hamidi	Personel MySTEP
Nur Wardina Balqis Binti Fadli	Personel MySTEP

Medical Officer, Digital Health Research & Innovation (DHRi)

Email: kuanpx@crc.moh.gov.my

MD (UNIMAS), MScCT (Edinburgh)

Areas of interest: Digital Health and Clinical Trials focusing on Cardiovascular, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, and Infectious Diseases

Awards and achievements:

High Impact Researcher Award 2023
Second Best Innovation, Anugerah Inovasi Sektor Awam (AINSA) 2023
⁠NUHS-NUH Healthcare AI Leadership Executive Programme 2022
Winner, Technology Category, MOH Innovation Award (AIKKM) 2022
Second Runner-up, Dr. Wu Lien-Teh Young Investigator Award, NCCR 2020
Excellent Service Award 2018

Dr. Kuan is one of the founding members of DHRi, ICR which was established in 2020. She graduated from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) with a Medical Degree (MD) in 2012 and completed her Masters of Science in Clinical Trials (MScCT) from The University of Edinburgh in 2021. She has joined the Clinical Research Centre (CRC) family since 2014 and has experience working in both Institute for Clinical Research (ICR) and CRC networks (East and West Malaysia), including being a co-investigator for Phase 1B clinical trials. She is a Cochrane member actively involved in voluntary translation works from English to Bahasa Malaysia and elected as Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS) Digital Health Committee Member 2024 from Malaysia. She aspires to integrate the use of digital technology into clinical trials for future health innovation.

Research Highlights

Efficacy of telemedicine for the management of cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis- widely cited paper published in The Lancet Digital Health. Refer link for more details: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(22)00124-8