Materia Medica Malaysiana

IMU's new appointments

The International Medical University (IMU) has hired two new professors and an associate professor. Prof Boo Nem Yun joins as Professor of Paediatrics,Prof Cheong Soon Keng becomes a Professor of Medicine and Assoc Prof Lim Pek Hong has been appointed head of the Nursing Department.
“We are delighted about the new appointments. Prof Cheong and Prof Boo have vast experience and skills in both academic and clinical areas of health care. We look forward to their contribution in the training of students in IMU,” said IMU president Tan Sri Dr Abu Bakar Suleiman.
He also expressed his pleasure at the appointment of Asoc Prof Lim as the head of the nursing programme. “With her experience and skills in education and nursing practice, we are confident that she will contribute positively to the development of the nursing programme,” said Dr Abu Bakar.
Prior to her present appointment, Prof Boo was the Professor of Neonatology (which is a subspecialty in paediatrics, taking care of sick newborn infants) in the Medical Faculty of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and head of the Neonatal Intensive Care unit of Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
She joined UKM as a lecturer in 1982 and was promoted associate professor in 1988 and Professor of Neonatology (which is the first of its kind in Malaysia) in 1993.
She is the chairperson of the Malaysian Neonatal Resuscitation Program that, over the last 9 years since its inception, has systematically trained more than 10,000 medical and nursing personnel in Malaysia in the proper techniques of resuscitation of newborn infants.
Prof Cheong has been appointed Professor of Medicine in the IMU Clinical School, Seremban. Prior to his present appointment, Prof Cheong was the Professor of Haematology in the Medical Faculty of UKM.
He was appointed a lecturer in UKM in 1980 and became an Assoc Prof in 1987 and the Professor of Haematology (the first-ever appointment in Malaysia) in 1993.
Currently he serves as president of the Malaysian Society of Haematology, vice-president of the College of the Pathologists, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia and vice-president of the National Cancer Council.
Prior to this appointment, Assoc Prof Lim was an associate professor in the Nursing Programme at the medical faculty in UM.
In 1999 she was appointed a lecturer in the nursing programme, at the Medical Faculty of Universiti Malaya and became an associate professor in 2003.