{"id":9988,"date":"2010-11-09T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=9988"},"modified":"2015-05-28T04:21:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T04:21:31","slug":"ukm-and-ijn-to-be-joined-by-geneva-university-to-collaborate-in-research-on-heart-diseases","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/november-2010\/ukm-and-ijn-to-be-joined-by-geneva-university-to-collaborate-in-research-on-heart-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"UKM and IJN to be joined by Geneva University to collaborate in research on heart diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2010%2Fnovember-2010%2Fukm-and-ijn-to-be-joined-by-geneva-university-to-collaborate-in-research-on-heart-diseases%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=9988&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/MoU%20UKM%20IJN%20bi1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>TUESDAY, 09 NOVEMBER 2010 20:53<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Abdul Ghani Nasir<br \/>\nPix by Saliman Leman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nKUALA LUMPUR, 9 Nov, 2010 \u2013 The National Heart Institute (IJN) and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) today signed a Master Agreement to collaborate research and development in the field of thoracic and cardio vascular diseases which will later be joined by the University of Geneva, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAnnouncing this at the ceremony the Vice Chancellor of UKM, Prof Tan Sri\u00a0Dato\u2019\u00a0Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin hoped Geneva University\u2019s involvement would not only be in research collaboration but will enable UKM to sent its students to do their studies at the PhD level at the University.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nShe described postgraduate studies as an indispensable component of such research activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThis is UKM\u2019s strength which I believe will also be the strength underpinning the UKM-IJN collaboration. Representatives from UKM and IJN had visited the research and training facilities in Geneva in March this year,\u201d she said at the signing ceremony at the new wing of IJN in Jalan Tun Razak here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nUKM had signed an MoU with IJN three years ago which had a tremendous effect on the development of cardiothoracic services at the UKM Medical Centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cIJN is an institute that has inspired a lot of our students and graduates. We are proud that many UKM alumni are serving IJN from its conception until now. Today the Lung and Heart Centre has emerged as one of UKM\u2019s Centres of Excellence. It is thus appropriate that it focuses on research under this MoA,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nProf Sharifah Hapsah said the government has agreed for UKM to develop its Children Hospital and hope IJN will be involved in the new Paediatrics Thoracic unit. The hospital will be built within two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/MoU%20UKM%20IJN%20bi4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/MoU%20UKM%20IJN%20bi2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A committee have been established initially headed by Prof Dato\u2019 Dr Lokman Saim, Dean of UKM\u2019s Medical Faculty to implement the activities under the MoA. Two research proposals one from the Cardiothoracic Unit of UKM and another from IJN have been forwarded for consideration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nProf Sharifah Hapsah said the government had allotted RM800 million as research grant and wanted more proposals to be submitted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe Chief Executive Officer of IJN, Tan Sri Dr Robaayah Zambahari said through the five year collaboration between IJN and UKM, the university has agreed to provide its cutting-edge laboratory and research facility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nUKM will also provide training in the research field to IJN personnel as well as support the effort by providing expertise and advisory support from eminent members of its well respected medical faculty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIJN on its part will assist by providing qualified consultant practitioners and personnel with the necessary expertise and skills to supervise and provide advice to the researchers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/MoU%20UKM%20IJN%20bi3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>At the same time IJN will also provide professional training for post-graduate students, allied health personnel, doctors and nurses in the field of cardiology (both paediatric and adult), cardiothoracic surgery and cardiac anaesthesiology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThis IJN-UKM collaboration in Research and Development is also in line with the Government\u2019s efforts in the Economic Transformation Programme for Healthcare.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nDr Jeswant Dillon, a consultant cardiologist from IJN later told the media that one of the proposal centered on research on the increasing number of young people (those below 40 years old) suffering heart problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe also said IJN will be doing follow ups on more than 1,400 patients who had undergone repair on their heart valves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nProf Dr Sharifah Hapsah signed on behalf of UKM while IJN was represented by Tan Sri Dr Robaayah Zambahari. Professor Beat H Walpoth, Director, Cardiovascular Research Service of Cardiovascular Surgery, Geneva University Hospital was present to witness the signing with Tan Sri Datu Prof Dr Mohamad Taha Arif, Chairman Board of Directors National Heart Institute.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, 09 NOVEMBER 2010 20:53 By Abdul Ghani Nasir Pix by Saliman Leman KUALA LUMPUR, 9 Nov, 2010 \u2013 The<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/november-2010\/ukm-and-ijn-to-be-joined-by-geneva-university-to-collaborate-in-research-on-heart-diseases\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9989,"parent":1416,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9988","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9990,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9988\/revisions\/9990"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}