Khairidzan Mohd. KAMAL, MD
Malaysia

Khairidzan M. Kamal, MD is currently an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Ophthalmology in the Faculty of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Dr Khairidzan received his MBBS from the University of Queensland in 1997, and obtained the Masters of Surgery (Ophthalmology) from the National University of Malaysia (UKM) in 2004. He then joined IIUM as a lecturer, and was appointed to his current post as Head, Department of Ophthalmology the following year. Dr Khairidzan spent a year as an Adjunct Clinical Instructor and International Fellow in Cornea, External Disease and Refractive Surgery at UCLA in 2008. A A Dr Khairidzan has published 10 articles in scientific journals and made 157 other scientific presentations. In addition to receiving seven awards from the IIUM for quality research, he also won the Best Poster Award at the Malaysia Singapore Ophthalmology Joint Meeting in 2009.He contributes his expertise on the Malaysian Dry Eye Advisory Board and was an invited member to the Ministry of Health taskforce meetings on postgraduate training modules and laser refractive surgery advertisement.