Vishna Devi Nadarajah
Vishna Devi Nadarajah is currently, Professor in the School of Medicine and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Education at the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Biochemistry from the University of Malaya (1994) and obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in biochemistry (2000). She is also a graduate of the Masters in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University (2014).
She has over 20 years of teaching experience in medical, dentistry and pharmacy education. She has published and presented research papers in both biomedical sciences and medical education supervise research students and reviews for indexed and international journals. She is a member of the international editorial board of the journal Medical Education. She was awarded the Malaysian Women’s Weekly (2012), Great Women of Our Time award for her contribution in Science and Technology in Malaysia.
Her areas of research for health professions education is in Faculty Development, Assessment and Innovative Teaching Learning methods. Vishnu has shared her experience and expertise in health professions education via invitations to speak at conferences, conducting faculty development workshops, consultancies and collaborative research, appreciating that she has also learnt very much from these collaborative sessions with other educators.