Prof. Dr. Anis Safura Ramli

Qualifications : 

MBBS (Newcastle, UK), DFFP (UK), DRCOG (UK), CPE JCPTGP (UK), MRCGP (UK), Fellow in Chronic Disease Management (Monash, AUS)

Area of Expertise/ Specialization : 

Consultant Family Medicine Specialist, Department of Primary Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Principal Fellow, Institute of Pathology, Laboratory and Forensic Medicine (I-PPerForM) Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Experience : 

Prof. Dr. Anis Safura Ramli graduated with MBBS from Newcastle University, United Kingdom in 1997. She pursued her specialist primary care training in England and subsequently obtained the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP), UK. She joined the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in 2005 and successfully established the Department of Primary Care Medicine. She was the Head of Department from 2005 - 2015. Under her leadership, the Department has successfully put together the curriculum, teaching and clinical service infrastructure for the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in primary care. She was awarded the UiTM Excellence Service Award in 2006, 2011, 2013 and the Deputy Vice Chancellor Research & Innovation Excellence Award in 2022.

Prof. Dr. Anis Safura Ramli completed her fellowship training in Chronic Disease Management at Monash University, Australia in 2010. She was selected to represent Malaysia in the Young Physician Leaders Programme in 2011 and 2016 - a leadership training and networking program by the InterAcademy Partnership for Health, a global network of science & medical academies. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010 and to the Professor post in 2017.

Prof. Dr. Anis Safura Ramli is a Principal Fellow at I-PPerForM, a research Centre of Excellence (CoE) in UiTM. She was the Deputy Director for six years from 2017 to 2023. Her niche area is in the cardiovascular disease prevention and risk management – particularly the metabolic syndrome and familial hypercholesterolaemia. She has published numerous scientific research papers in international high impact journals and has vast experience in leading research team as a principal investigator of national and international grants. She has won several research and innovation awards at national and international levels, including UiTM Best Researcher Award at AAU 2020 and Gold Medal Award at ITEX 2021. Her special interests include e-health intervention research, health service research and primary care reform. She was appointed by the Ministry of Health Malaysia as an expert panel to prepare the blueprint for the restructuring of the Malaysian primary health care system in 2008 - 2012. She is an active member of her profession having served in the councils of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia (AFPM), Family Medicine Specialist Association (FMSA) and the Malaysian Society of Hypertension (MSH). She has been invited as a plenary and symposium speaker at various national and international scientific conferences.