Rosmawati MOHAMED
Kuala Lumpur
Professor Dr Rosmawati Mohamed is a Consultant Hepatologist and has worked tirelessly as a hepatitis and liver cancer advocate. She was the Founding Co-chairperson of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee for Viral Hepatitis, founding member and was the Co-chairperson of the Coalition to Eradicate Viral Hepatitis in the Asia Pacific and a member of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections (STAG-HHS).
She is the Master, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia (AMM), a professional organisation representing various medical specialties in Malaysia, embracing 13 Colleges and 25 Chapters. Prof Rosmawati serves in various committee of the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) governing specialists recognition, training and continuous professional development (CPD). She worked with the IT vendor to develop the National Specialist Register online application process and database which belongs to AMM and the MMC is currently using with a formal Memorandum of Agreement between AMM and MMC. She also assisted to develop the AMM Medical CPD system for Specialist, one of the 3 CPD Administrators for MMC
Prof Rosmawati was instrumental in initiating the discussion which led to an agreement signed by University of Malaya with University of New Mexico, US, to replicate Project ECHO (Extension for Community health Outcomes) in Malaysia, to bring together specialists and frontline providers/ primary care doctors and trainees to provide best practice care. The ECHO model is a FREE capacity building and guided practice model that is proven to exponentially increase workforce capacity of healthcare providers, provide rapid learning and best-practice dissemination, reduce variations in care (by providing simple algorithm, adapt available international guidelines to local context or modify from online learning tools), and provide healthcare access for rural and underserved patients and reduced disparities