Professor Dr. Wong Chee Piau
Professor of Paediatrics, Consultant Paediatrician and Child Neurologist, Ara Damansara Medical Centre Professor, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) President, Digital Health Malaysia
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biography
Dr Chee Piau Wong is a paediatrician and a child neurologist. He received his undergraduate medical training in Malaysia and postgraduate training in United Kingdom. He is the first Malaysia paediatrician to complete the UK Calman Training in Paediatrics and Paediatric Neurology.
Chee Piau is keen in teaching, research and digital health. In teaching he revamped the paediatric trainee teaching program in Northern England during his time in the United Kingdom. He is one of the founding members of Monash Medical School in Malaysia established in July 2006. He established the Community Based Practice
(CBP) Program in Monash Malaysia, focusing on the social model of health. CBP has extensive engagement of community NGO and enabled Monash University to engage the community it meant to serve. The program was subsequently incorporated by Monash Campuses in Australia, winning the Pro Vice Chancellor Excellence in teaching 3 years consecutively. Chee Piau also set up the rural health placement for the year 2 medical students and improved the indigenous component of the programme to better reflect the challenges facing this community.
In research, Chee Piau conducted a population-based study on acute non-traumatic encephalopathy in children both in UK and Malaysia. The cohort of children in the UK remains the only population-based cohort for this condition in the world. The findings from his research have been used to support improvement in the provision of paediatric intensive care in Northern England. He also validated a coma scale for use in children below 5 years of age. The scale has been endorsed by the British Paediatric Neurology Association for use UK-wide.
In digital health, Chee Piau established the multidisciplinary telemedicine research platform in Monash University Malaysia, formulating a strategy for translational research in Digital Health and successfully supervised a few doctoral research projects in Digital Health namely an integrated online telemedicine ecosystem for Malaysia and patient centred electronic services (PACES), Child active physical and cognitive health evaluation system (Child Apache), Artificial Intelligence in EEG interpretation, Active video game based virtual rehabilitation system (Vihab), online synchronous and asynchronous counselling, online group therapy for university students, and using natural language processing in predicting dementia and childhood language disorders. He also led a team and completed the project “WeCare365” during the COVIDpandemic. This is a MDEC-DHM-MOH initiative aiming at supporting the B40 group with diabetes during COVID19 pandemic. Chee Piau holds 2 patents in Digital Health.
Chee Piau has been organising the annual Telemedicine National Conference since 2015 from ground zero. He was one of the founding members of Telemedicine Development Group (TDG), a steering committee co-chaired by the Director General of Health Ministry of Health (MOH) and Chairman of Malaysia Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). He is also the founding president of the Association of Digital Health Malaysia (DHM), an industry led association to advocate Digital Health in Malaysia.
Chee Piau remains an active clinician with a passion for paediatric epilepsy. He set up the paediatric epilepsy service in Ara Damansara Medical Centre.