Former Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah took to the stage as the keynote speaker at the recent Surgical Symposium 2025: Sculpting the Surgeons of the Future, which was organised by the Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia (NUMed) Surgical Society.
He received a warm welcome from NUMed provost and chief executive officer Prof Vishna Devi V Nadarajah, who highlighted that while he is renowned for playing a critical role in guiding Malaysia through an unprecedented crisis, he was also instrumental in the establishment of NUMed.
