Professor Norlia Abdullah is a Senior Consultant at the Department of Surgery, the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC) & Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Specialist Centre (UKMSC). She obtained the medical degree, MBBS (University of Malaya) in 1990 & the Dr. Surgery (UKM) in 1997. She underwent Subspecialty \/ Fellowship training in Breast Surgery at the Breast & Endocrine Unit, The Dept. of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine UKM, and in Breast Cancer Management & Breast Reconstructive Surgery at the University of London. She underwent a clinical attachment at the Siriraj Hospital, Thailand. She has undergone the Breast Ultrasound Course for Non-Radiologists at the Frenchay Hospital, North Bristol, UK. She has worked in various breast units including UCLH & Guy\u2019s Hospital in London, Heartlands Hospital & Solihull Hospital in Birmingham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was registered in the National Specialist Registry since 2011 . She was conferred the Fellowship of The Academy of Medicine Malaysia. She is a life member of both the Malaysian Medical Association & the Academy of Medicine Malaysia. She was a member of the British Medical Association & was a committee member of the Medicolegal Society of Malaysia. She heads the Breast Reconstructive Surgery division and the Breast Information Centre in UKMMC. She is the head of the Breast & Endocrine Unit. <\/a>She was one of the facilitators of the UKM Doctor in Surgery Programme. She has the trademark BADIS (Breast Abscess Drainage & Irrigation System) registered under her name. She has co-authorship on The holistic web-based breast cancer diagnostic learning system. She is co-author of two versions (Malay & English) of the Information support tool (booklets) for breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. She has the copyright for an operative technique for excision of benign breast lumps named The Submammary Evert (Sub-E) Technique. She is a reviewer of several journals. She has 40 publications & 1 chapter in a book. She has been involved in several local and international research projects. She founded the UKM Breast Cancer Support Group, TEMAN (Team Effort in Maintaining Awareness & Nurturing breast cancer survivors) in February 2014. She is also a member of the Cancer Resource, Education & Support Group (CaRE), Universiti Putra Malaysia. She frequently gives public breast awareness & health talks. She has been interviewed on local television & radio. She has been invited to give professional talks in local & international events.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"featured_media":4142,"parent":0,"template":"","medical":[],"surgical":[136,40],"class_list":["post-4144","expertukm","type-expertukm","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","surgical-breast-surgical","surgical-surgery"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/spsfper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expertukm\/4144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/spsfper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expertukm"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/spsfper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/expertukm"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/spsfper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expertukm\/4144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/spsfper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/spsfper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"medical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/spsfper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medical?post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"surgical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/spsfper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/surgical?post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}