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8:50 am Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen. Before we proceed with the event, please have
Pre-Forum a seat and make yourself comfortable and most importantly, please switch your
phone to silent mode. Thank you.

8.55 – 9.00 Announcing the arrival of;

Arrival &
welcoming Datuk Ir. (Dr.) Abdul Rahim Hj. Hashim, Vice-Chancellor, University of Malaya,
remarks Malaysia,
Distinguished guest, Prof. Yueh-Min Huang, Vice President for International Affairs,
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan,
Our respective speakers,

Ladies and gentleman

Please be seated.

Bismillah hirrahmanirrahim....
Alhamdulillahhirabbilalamin...
Rabbissrahlisadriwayassirliamri wahlull uq dattan millisani yaf khahul kaulih...

Honorable guests,
Distinguished guest, Datuk Ir. (Dr.) Abdul Rahim Hj. Hashim, Vice-Chancellor,
University of Malaya, Malaysia.
Honorable guest , Prof. Yueh-Min Huang, Vice President for International Affairs,
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Respective speakers , Prof. Dr. Ping-Yen Liu , Assoc. Prof. Chia-Yuan Chen, Assoc.
Prof. Dr. Noran Naqiah Mohd Hairi, Prof. Dr. Sanjay Rampal A/l Lekhraj Rampal,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nor Adinar Baharuddin
President and Vice President, Association of Alumni Cheng Kung University, Malaysia
Representative , from University Sains Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,
Universiti Putra Malaysia and University Tunku Abdul Rahman.
Ladies and gentlemen,

Assalamualaikum w.b.t... salam ceria.

A very good morning and a warm welcome we bid to our guests of honour, respected
speakers and SATU’s fellow friends to: the Forum of Southeast & South Asia Taiwan
Universities (SATU) Presidents' Forum Local Chapter Workshop - Obesity And Health.

My name is Mona Simarani, and I will be your Master of Ceremonies for this event.
A very good morning to everyone and welcome to Auditorium IPPP, University of
Malaya, Malaysia. In our traditional Malay greeting I would like to say “Selamat
Datang” to all of you.

We thank you all for gracing this occasion. We are delighted to

w e l c o m e e v e r y d e l e g a t e t o o u r u n i v e r s i t y . I would like to express
our heartfelt gratitude for your presence at this memorable occasion. It is indeed a
pleasure to have you all today. We hope this event would uplifting the power of
sharing knowledge as successful knowledge transfer involves neither computers nor
documents but rather interactions between people.

Ladies and gentlemen,

National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) through SATU (Southeast and South Asia and
Taiwan Universities) Presidents’ Forum International Secretariat is co-hosting with
University of Malaya (UM) for SATU Local Chapter Workshop on Obesity and Health.

It is noticeable that the upsurge in the prevalence of obesity and overweight

coincides with an increasing economic and social interdependence. Overweight and
obesity are strongly associated with diseases such as diabetes, hypertension (HTN),
cardiovascular disease (CVD) and the metabolic syndrome. Rising rates of obesity is
an epidemic in most Asian countries. Prevalence of childhood obesity is also
increasing in Malaysia, Singapore, China, India and other Asian countries. Since
obesity has become a public health issue, the SATU organizers would like to take this
opportunity to gather professionals to discuss this topic and bring awareness for a
 healthier lifestyle,

9:00 am – 9:10 Honorable guests, ladies and gentlemen,

am
Opening Without further ado, let us welcome our dear Vice-Chancellor Datuk Ir.
Speech by VC (Dr.) Abdul Rahim Hj. Hashim, Vice-Chancellor, University of Malaya,
Malaysia to give the opening speech. Please welcome. ( a p p l a u s e , l e d b y t h e
emcee)
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Thank you for that inspiring message.

9:10 am – 9:20 Honorable guests, ladies and gentlemen

am It is now my great pleasure to invite Prof. Yueh -Min Huang, Vice
President for International Affairs, National Cheng Kung
University, Taiwan, to deliver his speech. Please welcome
Speech by
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NCKU
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Thank you very much for your word of wisdom and encouragement .
9.20 – 9.50 Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1
Prof. Dr. Ping- Now, let’s move on to the first speaker. I’m delighted to introduce Prof. Dr. Ping-Yen
Yen Liu Liu. Dr Ping-Yen Liu is a Professor of Medicine and Institute of Clinical Medicine,
College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung Univeristy (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan. He is
also the director of Cardiology, Internal Medicine, in the NCKU Hospital. He is
currently the deputy editor of the Acta Cardiologica Sinica (ACS, Impact factor 0.9 in
2017 JCR), the official Journal of Taiwan Society of Cardiology since 2012. He also co-
chairs the Committee of International Affairs in the Taiwan Society of Cardiology
since 2018.

Dr Liu’s research work focused on the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease,

with an emphasis on dyslipidemia, thrombosis and hemostasis, platelet function and
 biomarkers, including matrix metalloproteinases, rho kinase activity, phsolpholipase
A2. More recently, he focused on the Cardio oncology and Geriatic Cardiomyoapthy
topics and conduct several community and clinical studies (Scientific Reports 2015-
2017). He had won 40+ important academic awards in his career, including the
Acedemic Research Award “Ting-Non Award” for Taiwan Society of Cardiology in
2010 and Young Investigator Research Awards “Da-Yu Wu Award” from Ministry of
Science and Technology in Taiwan in 2010. Today, he will talk about Lipid lowering
and cardiovascular disorder prevention.

Without further ado, please welcome....

...

Thank you for the interesting and valuable information .. With A Healthy Heart, The
Beat Goes On.

Now, I'll open the floor for questions......

9.50 AM Honorable guests, ladies and gentlemen.

Token of N o w , p l e a s e w e l c o m e o n s t a g e our Vice-Chancellor, Datuk Ir. (Dr.)

appreciation & Abdul Rahim Hj. Hashim accompanied by Prof. Dr Noorsaadah Abd
Rahman, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) to present t h e
Photo Session
token of appreciation to our honorable guest and
speakers.

Please welcome Prof. Yueh-Min Huang, Vice President for

International Affairs, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan .

Now our speakers:

Prof. Dr. Ping-Yen Liu

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Noran Naqiah Mohd Hairi

Prof. Dr. Sanjay Rampal A/l Lekhraj Rampal

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nor Adinar Baharuddin

And Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chia-Yuan Chen

 Photo session,
Honourable guests, ladies and gentlemen, now I would like
to invite all of you to join together to the middle section
of the auditorium for a group photo session.
10:05 am – Ladies and gentlemen,
10:20 am
Coffee Break We’ll take a short break. Refreshment is served at the Banquet Hall. We’ll resume our
session at 10.20 a.m. Please be here by 10.15am. Your cooperation is highly
appreciated.

10.20 -11.05 Honorable guests, ladies and gentlemen.

AM
Speaker 2 I hope you have enjoyed the sessions you have attended so far. Allow me to
Assoc. Prof. Dr. introduce the 2nd speaker for today. Associate Professor Dr. Noran Naqiah Mohd
Noran Naqiah Hairi. She is currently a Associate Professor at the Department Of Social And
Mohd Hairi Preventive Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. She also Head of Julius
Centre University of Malaya (JCUM), Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence
Based Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UM.

She joined the University of Malaya as a Degree student and graduated with a MBBS
(UM) in 1996, a MPH (UM) in 2003, MPH (epidemiology) in 2004 and PhD from
University of Sydney in 2011. She has also authored various journal and conference
papers related to his areas of expertise. Dr. Noran Naqiah 's research interest were
Epidemiology ((Epidemiology, Research Methodology, Medical statistics)) Preventive
Medicine (geriatrics and gerontology, aging). She currently has a H-Index of 9 and
over 300 Web of Science Citations and scopus.

We are grateful for her presence today. Without further ado, please join me in
welcoming Dr. Noran Naqiah.
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Thank you Dr Noran, I noticed some of the participants here have burning questions
to ask. Let’s open the floor to questions. Please go the microphone prepared/ nearest
to you.
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Q&A Thank you so much for your active participation.

11:05 am – Ladies and gentlemen, we will continue our session with the next speaker.
11:50 am He is currently a public health specialist and preventive medicine physician. He is an
Speaker 3 Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and heads the Department of
Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya.
Prof. Dr. Sanjay
Rampal A/L Dr Rampal was medically trained in India and served in the Ministry of Health
Malaysia from 1998 to 2005. The clinical experiences from his early medical career
Lekhraj Rampal
helped him realize that treating one patient at a time was not sufficient and more
could be done by intervening at a population level. He improved his basic
epidemiology and biostatistics knowledge by completing a MPH degree in 2004 from
Harvard University. He joined University of Malaya in 2005 with the idea that
intervening at the graduate level would improve the research skills of the medical
and public health community. He completed his PhD in Epidemiology from Johns
Hopkins University in 2014.

His research work focuses on the epidemiology and prevention of non-communicable

diseases. He is particularly interested in elucidating their roles as common upstream
factors utilizing common major pathways leading to the different Non Communicable
Diseases. He hopes to further leverage this information to better design and
implement more "Horizontal" prevention programs that ultimately would reduce the
number of new patients seen by our healthcare system. His methodological interest
includes improving causal inference, epidemiological designs, regression models,
multiple imputations, measurement error, and propensity scoring.

Dr Rampal is the chairman for the Public Health Society, Malaysian Medical
Association, and is a member of various international associations such as
International Epidemiology Association, American Heart Association/American Stroke
Association, Society for Epidemiology Research. He is a Fellow of the Academy of
Medicine Malaysia and was the past honorary secretary for the College of Public
Health Medicine from 2006-2009. He is also the current State Medical Officer for
Malaysian Red Crescent Society WP Putrajaya.

Please join us in welcoming Prof. Dr. Sanjay Rampal A/l Lekhraj Rampal to the stage.
Please welcome.
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Thank you Prof. Dr. Sanjay for the valuable information. Now it’s the time for
question. ……..

11:50 am – Ladies and gentlemen,

12:10 pm
Speaker 4 OK, now let’s move on to the 4th speaker. I’m delighted to introduce Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nor
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Adinar Baharuddin, who will share with us on “Obesity and Dentistry: The Body Strikes
Nor Adinar Back”.
Baharuddin She received her Doctor of Clinical Dentistry in 2010 from the University of Otago,
New Zealand. She has received her Doctor of Clinical Dentistry in 2010 from the
University of Otago, New Zealand. Her thesis is in the area of bone healing in animal
model. Dr Baharuddin returned home and continues research in her area of interest.
Her interest is in obesity, regeneration and bone healing reated to periodontology.
She has published several articles in local and international journals. She is currently
an Associates Professor at the Faulty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, Kuala
Lumpur. She has served as the Head of Department in 2006 and again in 2011-2014.
She has been involved in the dental curriculum development for both undergraduate
and postgraduate levels for the faculty. Also she is the panel for Accreditation
Assessment for Postgraduate Dental Education for MQA.

Without further ado, please join me in welcoming Assoc Prof. Dr. Nor Adinar
Baharuddin
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Thank you Dr. Nor Adinar for your interesting topic. It is something new and atrractve
to be discuss in the future.

Now, I open to the floor for any question(s).

12.10 pm – Ladies and gentlemen

12:45 pm
Allow me to introduce the last speaker of the day, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chia-Yuan Chen.
Speaker 5 Chia-Yuan Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Engineering at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Taiwan. Prior to his
Chia-Yuan Chen appointment at NCKU, he served as an Assistant Professor at National Taiwan
University of Science and Technology (NTUST) for one year and a half. He received his
Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in
2012. His fields of research interests include hemodynamics, flow visualization,
computational fluid dynamics, and microfabrication with a focus on their biomedical
applications. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Young Scholar Award from
Ministry of Science and Technology in 2013 and 2016, and he was awarded the Young
 Scholar Award by Taiwan Comprehensive University System in 2014, in addition to
the Rising Star Award by NCKU College of Engineering in 2016. Within the last six
years after his Ph.D. training, as an independently principal investigator he authored
28 scientific papers published in the leading microfluidic/biomedical related journals,
with several featured as journal cover, editor’s pick, and annually outstanding papers.

Without further ado, please join me in welcoming Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chia-Yuan Chen
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Thank you Dr. Chia-Yuan Chen for your interesting topic. That was a great sharing.
It's time now to open the floor for questions.

12:45 pm – Ladies and gentlemen,

12:50 pm
Closing The Forum of Southeast & South Asia Taiwan Universities (SATU) Presidents' Forum
Remarks Local Chapter Workshop - Obesity And Health is coming to an end. I would like to
thank again our speakers for their very interesting and stimulating
Contributions and to the audience/ participants, thank you so much for your
participation.

Before that, we would like to express our heartfelt thanks to the

1. University of Malaya VC
2. National Cheng Kung University , Taiwan
3. Invited speakers
4. SATU members
5. SATU Alumni

And not forgetting the committee who had worked hard for this event to be success.
Thank you once again for making this event a memorable one.

For your information, lunch is served at the banquest hall . For those of you who’ll
participate in the SATU partnering session, please gather at the foyer/ lobby at 2 pm.
Good bye and Assalamualaikum.