UM Health

UM Health Ecosystem is to facilitate and encourage optimal education, research and clinical outcomes. It is envision to enhance the community wellbeing by delivering efficient, comprehensive and patient-centred clinical care; nurturing and developing future-ready graduates by offering high quality educational programmes; and develop and share innovative solutions for the world’s healthcare challenges.

In order to create the foundation of this future eco-system, the ecosystem shall provide platform for UM collaboration, share public and private facilities, extend partner networks, develop ventures and specialty centres, and expand across satellites.

Key Features of the Future UM Health

1. Platform for UM Collaboration

2. Shared Public & Private Facilities

3. Extensive Partner Networks

4. Ventures & Specialty Centres

5. Expansion Across Satellites to Support Hub Activities

Below are the forerunners of this future ecosystem including UM Specialist Centre (UMSC);

About UM Faculty of Medicine

The University of Malaya’s Faculty of Medicine is one of Malaysia’s oldest medical schools, having been founded in 1962 to cater to the shortages of medical doctors in Malaya at that time. Since its founding, the Faculty of Medicine has graduated over 6000 Malaysian doctors and 5000 medical experts.

The majority of the specialists at the UM Specialist Center are former students here and they are currently contributing back to their alumni as a teaching force.

Find out more about UM Faculty of Medicine here: https://medicine.um.edu.my/

Prof. Dr. April Camilla Roslani, Dean Faculty of Medicine

About UM Medical Centre

The University of Malaya’s Faculty of Medicine is one of Malaysia’s oldest medical schools, having been founded in 1962 to cater to the shortages of medical doctors in Malaya at that time. Since its founding, the Faculty of Medicine has graduated over 6000 Malaysian doctors and 5000 medical experts.

The majority of the specialists at the UM Specialist Center are former students here and they are currently contributing back to their alumni as a teaching force.

Find out more about UM Medical Centre here: www.ummc.edu.my

Prof. Dr. Nazirah binti Hasnan, Director of UMMC

About UM Faculty of Dentistry

University of Malaya’s Faculty of Dentistry, the foremost, premier and oldest dental school in Malaysia and its history can be traced back to 1927.

The majority of the specialists at the UM Specialist Center are former students here and they are currently contributing back to their alumni as a teaching force.

Find out more about UM Faculty of Dentistry here https://dentistry.um.edu.my/

Prof. Dr. Zamri Bin Radzi, Dean of Faculty of Dentistry

About UM Faculty of Pharmacy

To meet the growing demand for pharmacists in the public healthcare system, the Department of Pharmacy was founded in 1995 at University Malaya under the Faculty of Medicine.

Find out more about UM Faculty of Pharmacy here: https://pharmacy.um.edu.my/

Prof. Dr. Hasniza Zaman Huri, Dean of Faculty of Pharmacy

About UM Specialist Centre (UMSC)

UM Specialist Centre (UMSC) was established in 1998, located in Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur. It was initially established as an initiative by the University Malaya (UM) and the Faculty of Medicine (FOM) to halt the “brain drain” of medical experts from public sector to the private.

UMSC prides itself as ‘Malaysia’s Premier Quaternary Hospital’ with a multidisciplinary of more than 250 consultants who among them are professor doctors with super and sub-specialists to provide the highest quality of patient care.

UMSC has become the referral centre for tertiary hospitals where we are entrusted to handle complex cases using advance and latest cutting edge technology with full comprehensive of manpower

Find out more about UM Specialist Centre here: www.umsc.my 

Norzaiton Senusi, Chief Executive Officer of UMSC