Kamalan Jeevaratnam

Dr. Kamalan Jeevaratnam was previously the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, Lead in Physiology at the School of Medicine, PU-RCSI based in Kuala Lumpur. As an academician, he has previously delivered anatomy and physiology lectures and practical session to both medical and veterinary students at the International Medical University, University Putra Malaysia and the University of Cambridge, UK. He is also an examiner on the surgical MRCS examinations.

His research interest includes integrative physiology, novel therapeutic agent discoveries, human animal interface research as well as medical education. His present work concerns the use integrative physiology techniques to elucidate mechanism of cardiac arrhythmia and developing risk stratification strategies for clinical practice. The work involves the identification and characterization of novel ion channel and receptor genes through functional analysis using gene-targeting to the invasive analysis of cardiac arrhythmia substrates in patients. He is actively involved in research collaboration with the University of Cambridge, UK; Xian Jiantong University, China; International Medical University, Malaysia; University Putra Malaysia, the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute and Animal Neighbours, Malaysia in the following areas: mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmia, biomarker discovery for gestational hypertension/preeclampsia, nutrigenomic trials and drug discovery for cognitive dysfunctions, and medical education research (PBLs and admission processes).

Dr. Jeevaratnam holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, a MMedSc from International Medical University and the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from University Putra Malaysia, He was admitted to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, UK in 2011 by examination. He was also the recipient of Merdeka Award Grant for International Attachment, the International Award by the Japanese Association of Laboratory Animal Sciences, the Nicola Emmerson Trust Award (2010-2011) the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Award (2008-2010), Maxis Communications Scholarship for Excellence Program (2008-2011), and FFM Best Research Award (2005).