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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nor Hamdan Mohamad Yahaya

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nor Hamdan Mohamad Yahaya

Arthroplasty

Mini Biography

Associate Prof Dr. Nor Hamdan is A Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Associate Professor and Head of Arthroplasty Unit, Department of Orthopaedic and Traumatology at Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre. He is in specializing in Primary and Revision Hip and Knee Arthroplasty cases. He is also a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at UKM Specialist Centre and Research Fellow at Tissue Engineering Centre, PPUKM.

He was awarded Degree of Medicine at UKM in 1996 and Master of Orthopaedic Surgery at UKM in 2004. As an experienced surgeon, Dr Hamdan is able to manage primary, complex and revision hip and knee arthroplasty cases.

He has done 200 cases total joint per year for the past 10 years. Arthroplasty Unit UKM also receive referrals from all over Malaysia especially for revision hip and knee arthroplasty cases.

He has published more than 45 journal articles and also invited as a speaker in a local and international conferences.

Course Director Arthroplasty Fellowship Programme HCTM UKM

Flowchart of Credentialing and Privileging in HCTM for International Candidates

DEFINITION

Credentialing: a process to set the standards and to do an evaluation for a person’s qualification in a field or procedure. It is recognition for the professional training done by a medical practitioner.

Privileges: the rights given by the hospital for a medical practitioner to give treatments or to do procedures on hospital patients based on the qualifications of the training, and the medical practitioner’s experience and expertise.