Prof. Dr. Amaramalar Selvi Naicker
MBBS(Ind) , M. Rehab Med (UM), CIME(USA)
Professor (Dr) Amaramalar Selvi Naicker is a consultant Rehabilitation Medicine Physician from Faculty of Medicine, University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). She has been working in PPUKM since 2003 within the Dept of Orthopedics & Traumatology . She has actively been involved in clinical work in several areas of rehabilitation like Spinal cord injury, Brain injury and Musculoskeletal rehabilitation to name a few. She has a special interest in the Peadiatric Rehabilitation and had her clinical attachment at the Royal Northshore hospital in Sydney in 2007 and has since worked to co-ordinate and involve her team in a several multidisciplinary clinics such as the Joint Cerebral Palsy clinic and the Spina bifida clinic as well as individualized care for other related peadiatric disorders such as limb deficiencies, spinal cord injury, brain injury, cancer ,pain etc to provide comprehensive care to children with multiple functional impairments through procedures such as Botulinium toxin injections , therapy, orthotic and prosthetic management and more recently Baclofen pump refills and programming service.
She is also a passionate teacher and enjoys teaching both basic sciences and clinical medicine . Her research includes work done on various areas of rehabilitation as well as tissue engineering. Her publications span over peer reviewed journals, chapters in books as well as public health articles and booklets. As rehabilitation involves community extension of medical care she continues her work in society with several community groups and is the Co- founder and Vice president of Spina bifida association of Malaysia (SiBIAM) ,an organization for children with developmental spinal problems.
Her interest are not just limited to people with disabilities but also to animals in similar situations too. She helps out at a local elephant conservatory to aid in prosthetic restoration for elephants who have undergone amputations due to being trapped in poachers snares.
Since 2015, she has actively participated in Mercy Malaysia’s work with post disaster medical rehabilitation and capacity building in Nepal and has helped to bring together a team of rehab professionals interested in disaster rehabilitation to participate in Mercy Malaysia’s activities.
More recently has been actively involved in WHO initiative for Rehabilitation capacity building in lower income countries which is a project in collaboration with the International society for Physical Rehabilitation and Medicine (ISPRM) .