LUNCH LECTURE Speaker  |
Prof Dato’ Dr Sharifah Hapsah Bte Syed Hasan Shahabudin Chairperson
& CEO, National Accreditation Board (LAN) |
Dr.
Sharifah Hapsah is the Chairperson & CEO, National Accreditation Board (LAN).
She obtained her Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery M.B.B.S. (Mal) in 1973;
Master of Health Personnel Education M.H.P.Ed (NSW) in 1982; Doctorate in Medicine
M.D. in 1997, Fellow of the Academy of Medicine FAMM in 1999 and Fellow of the
Academy of Science in 2006. In 1980, she was selected for a Master in Health Personnel
Education (MHPEd) course at the WHO Regional Training Center for Health Development
at the University of New South Wales. Upon graduation in 1981, she was appointed
the head of the Medical Education Unit. She has been appointed numerous
times as short term advisor, consultant, rapporteur of meetings, speaker at conferences
and member of expert groups to WHO, UNDP, UN Office for the Advancement of Women,
ILO, Commonwealth of Learning (COL), OECD and various universities in areas such
as medical education and health workforce planning and training, higher education,
quality assurance, HIV/AIDS, gender, ICT, and distance education.
Dr. Sharifah has conducted research and published extensively in Exercise Physiology
and medical education since 1976. Her current research is focussed on policy issues
in higher education, strategic planning, quality in higher education, and higher
education management. Activities are focussed on the development of benchmarks
for quality assessment and enhancement and the impact of globalisation on higher
education. Her works include articles in journals and books on
medical education published internationally. The books include Transcending
the Gender Information Divide, published by UNDP, 2000; Co-editor with Saran
Kaur Gill, Asian Women Leaders in Higher
Education – Management Challenges for the New Millennium, published by UNESCO,
2000; “Women’s Health”, a chapter
in Women and Development in Malaysia - Implications for Planning and Population
Dynamics, Jamilah Ariffin (ed.), University of Malaya Press 1990; “Medical
Education in Malaysia”, chapter in International Handbook of Medical
Education, A Sajid (ed.) and published by Greenwood Pub. Group 1993;
“Medical Education in Malaysia 1905-1995” in Collection of Writings
by Professors in the Medical Faculty, UKM, published in conjunction with the 25th
Anniversary of the founding of UKM, 1995. ++ |
