Professor Dr Shahrul Bahyah Kamaruzzaman
Senior Consultant Geriatrician
Professor Dr Shahrul Bahyah Kamaruzzaman is a Senior Consultant Geriatrician at the University of Malaya Medical Center where she has practiced for the past 24 years. She was heading the Geriatric unit for several years until she was appointed as Head of Medicine in 2018. This led to her appointment as Deputy Dean of Postgraduate studies at Faculty of Medicine UM in 2020 till end of 2025.
Dr Shahrul returned to Malaysia in 2002 after her geriatric training in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom and served as Senior Lecturer in the country’s first Geriatric unit. She played a key role in the training and refining of the geriatric multidisciplinary team as well as the acute geriatric care services at UMMC. She embarked on her PhD in 2006 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and was awarded a PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health in July 2010. Her thesis was on the assessment of frailty in community dwelling older adults for which she developed and validated a weighted Frailty index in the British older population.
Apart from frailty, her research interests lie in Sarcopenia, falls, dementia as well Ageing in HIV populations. Both her training in geriatrics and epidemiology has been useful in her research activities as a founder member of the Ageing and Age Associated Disorders Research Group in University Malaya as well as the Malaysian Society of Geriatric Medicine. She was the President of the Malaysian Healthy Aging Society for two terms and Deputy President of the Gerontology Association of Malaysia. All these various clinical and academic roles have helped cement her commitment to the development of clinical services, ageing research and medical education in Malaysia.