Speakers
SPEAKERS
dzulkifli abdul razak
Dzulkifli Abdul Razak (Emeritus Professor Tan Sri Dato) is the 6th Rector of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), also known as Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM). He is the immediate past President of the Paris-based International Association of Universities (IAU). As its 14th President, he served this UNESCO body from 2012 to 2016. Currently, he is also the Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM); and prior to this he was the inaugural holder of the Islamic Leadership Chair/Principal Fellow (2014-2016) at USIM Faculty of Leadership and Management. He has been an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham since 2014.
Björn Wettermark
Associate Professor Dr Björn Wettermark, M.Sc.Pharm, PhD works at the regional health board in Stockholm, where he supports decision makers with various analyses on quality of care. He is currently leading a project with the aim to implement a new national system for guidelines development and quality improvement. Björn is also associate professor in pharmacoepidemiology at Karolinska Institutet with research focusing on drug utilization topics such as prescribing quality indicators, international comparisons of drug utilization, evaluation of prescribing doctors´ adherence to guidelines and intervention studies to promote rational use of drugs. He was the previous chair of the European Drug Utilization Research group.
AMY BOHNERT
Associate Professor Dr Amy S.B. Bohnert, Ph.D., M.H.S. is a mental health services researcher with training in public health who focuses her research on epidemiology and brief interventions regarding substance use and related disorders. Within a team of collaborators at the University of Michigan and the Department of Veterans Affairs, she has led a number of projects related to overdose and prescription drug safety. A number of her research activities have been specifically aimed at improving care occurring in substance use disorder treatment settings. Dr. Bohnert has demonstrated a particular expertise in applying epidemiology methods to the analysis of electronic health records-based datasets to answer important questions for health services delivery.
RUSLI ISMAIL
Professsor Dr Rusli Ismail joined UnisZA in November 2016 as a professor at the Faculty of Medicine. Prior to UnisZA, Rusli was a professor at the Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS at the Faculty of Medicine in University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur where he joined after leaving USM Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine. Rusli teaches clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. His research interest is in “personalised medicine and pharmacogenetics” that grew from his work in clinical pharmacokinetics. His main focus currently is on drug use disorder and HIV especially as it pertains to methadone maintenance therapy for opiate use disorder. Rusli has also been active in civil societies. It was when he was the Honorary Secretary of the Malaysian AIDS Council that he began to become especially interested in MMT and this culminated in him helping get the Government to redraw drug policy to include “harm reduction”. Rusli has published extensively and has been invited to many international conferences. He was recently invited by the Saudi Government to deliver a talk on “MMT in Malaysia” that was to act as a nucleus for a similar approach in Saudi for their similar problems.
azuana ramli
Dr Azuana Ramli from Pharmaceutical Division Malaysia.