Norazlin Kamal Nor is a Senior Lecturer, a Consultant Paediatrician and Developmental Paediatrician in the Department of Paediatrics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Faculty, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She received her MBBS from the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals (University of London) in 1998, and a BSc in Neuroscience in 1995. She obtained the Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (MRCPCH, London) in 2002 and subsequently joined the Department of Paediatrics UKM as a lecturer in 2004. She became involved in the field of Developmental Paediatrics and concurrently started working in the Child Development Centre (CDC) in UKM Hospital from 2008. This CDC is the first CDC of its kind in Malaysia, catering for assessment, diagnosis and intervention for children with special needs and neurodevelopmental issues. Local training for Developmental Paediatrics subspeciality was initiated in this CDC and subsequently significant numbers of developmental paediatricians were trained here, enabling the establishment of more CDCs around the country. In 2018, she also obtained her PhD in Genetic Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, USA. At present, she is the Head of the CDC in Hospital Tuanku Mukhriz and upcoming Hospital Pakar Kanak-Kanak. She has been involved in multiple research projects in the area of neurodevelopment in general, and specifically involving autism spectrum disorder.
Her research interests include paediatric neurodevelopment, neurodevelopmental conditions including autism spectrum disorder, developmental delay and learning disability, follow-up of high-risk infants such as low birth weight infants, as well as feeding and sleep disorders in children, and child safety and protection.
