Jemaima Che Hamzah

Jemaima is an Associate Professor and a senior consultant in the Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). She graduated in 1996 from UKM and served the Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH) for 3 years. She later joined UKM as a trainee lecturer and obtained her Master of Surgery (Ophthal) in 2003 from the same university. She pursued her PhD in University of Aberdeen, UK from 2008 to 2012, while practising as a glaucoma fellow in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary at the same time. She did her attachment at the Belfast Reading Centre (Belfast RC) and CARF (the Central Angiographic Resource Facility) imaging centre in Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland in 2018. Her main research interests are health services research in ophthalmology particularly outcome research in glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy as well as delivery of service through internet of things. She is currently the Deputy Dean of Undergraduate, Faculty of Medicine, UKM and a council member of the College of Ophthalmologists Academy of Medicine Malaysia. Apart from that, she has served on many national ophthalmology committees and involved in many national ophthalmology conferences.