Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wan Salwina Wan Ismail

Associate Prof Dr Wan Salwina Wan Ismail is a consultant psychiatrist in Hospital Canselori Tuanku Muhriz Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (HCTM UKM), subspecializing in child and adolescent psychiatry. She obtained her medical degree (MBBS) from University of Adelaide, South Australia in 1995, and Master of Medicine (Psychiatry) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia(UKM) in 2003. She joined UKM as a trainee lecturer in 2000 and continued to serve as a lecturer and clinical specialist  since 2003. Following her passion to work with children and adolescents with mental health issues, she proceeded to do subspecialty training and obtained Advanced Master in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, from UKM, in 2007. She served  as the Head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit, HCTM UKM from 2012 till 2020. She has been actively  involved in the training of  undergraduate and postgraduate students particularly in child and adolescent psychiatry,  for psychiatric discipline as well as other medical disciplines.  Since 2018, she was appointed as  co-trainer for Subspecialty program in Developmental Paediatrics and  Fellowship in  Adolescent Health in Primary Care UKM. She was also actively involved in many seminars and workshop to train and educate healthcare workers, teachers and public, on children and adolescent mental health.  She has conducted various research in the scope of  child and adolescent psychiatry, and published papers in local and international journals. She has been regularly invited as a speaker  in conferences, seminar and workshops  at the local and international level.