Research Personality: Datuk Dr. Muhammad Radzi Abu Hassan
Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, Hospital Sultanah Bahiyah, Alor Setar, Kedah.
Datuk Dr. Muhammad Radzi Abu Hassan is a consultant physician and gastroenterologist at Hospital Sultanah Bahiyah in Alor Setar. He also heads the Department of Medicine and Clinical Research Centre (CRC) at the hospital. He graduated from the Royal College of Surgeon in Dublin, completed his Masters in Medicine from HUSM and became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1997. He then went on to obtain a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP Edinburgh).
Datuk Dr. Radzi is actively involved in research and has numerous articles published in reputable publications. He is currently principal investigator to five on-going clinical trials and is very active in medical education, presenting at local and international conferences. His research interest are in colorectal cancer particularly with a focus on colorectal cancer screening, fatty liver, viral hepatitis as well as clinical trials in general medicines such as diabetes. Datuk Dr. Radzi got his first taste of clinical trials in 2001, when he was undergoing fellowship training in gastroenterology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia. At the time he was training under the supervision of Dr. Peter Gibson, a prominent researcher at Royal Melbourne Hospital.
