Chew Boon How

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A Professor of Family Medicine, a Consultant Family Medicine Specialist at Family Medicine Specialist Clinic Universiti Putra Malaysia Teaching Hospital HSAAS (Hospital Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah), and was the Head of the Clinical Research Unit in HSAAS, 2021-2024. His research is mainly on diabetes mellitus focusing type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes mellitus beside other chronic diseases and healthcare issues related to health behaviours and psychosocial wellbeing. He is skilled in clinical epidemiology. However, he is increasingly working on meta-research, promoting open science practices and research culture that emphasise on rigorous research process and capacity building. He founded and publishing RECRUS Research Newsletter to promote awareness and update the clinical research community on best research practices and reading habit. His current works include the REALQUAMI project to describe the characteristics and quality of clinical and biomedical research in Malaysia, and exploring the landscape of digital medicine and health technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and big data in clinical practice, and their facilitators and barriers during implementation. He was trained in AI use in healthcare.

He was one of the world top 2% scientist in clinical medicine in 2020 till 2024. He was a Visiting Senior Lecturer to King’s College London for the Malaysian GestatiOnal Diabetes and prevention of DiabtES Study (MYGODDESS) (2020- 2022), and to the Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, YLL School of Medicine, NUS, Mar-Dec 2024. He is a Member of the International Committee for Talent Development with the Danish Diabetes Academy (2018-2021). He is a board member in the Ethics Committee for Research Involving Human Subjects Universiti Putra Malaysia (JKEUPM). He was involved in the Scientific Review Board of the Institute for Health Systems Research, and the Committee for Research Assessment (JPP-NIH), National Institute of Health Malaysia, Ministry of Health Malaysia. He was an associate editor and guest editor for Malaysian Family Physicians, World Journal of Diabetes, Frontiers in Endocrinology and Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health.

He was leading the Diabetes Research Group, and in the founding period of setting up a diabetes research and resource centre. He had been supervising > 5 PhD, > 5 MSc and > 5 MMed students. He has been involved in more than 30 clinical research, >20 of which is as the principal investigator, and >10 are clinical trials. Had published > 80 journal articles, > 4 books, and 5 chapters, > 5 teaching materials, 2 training manuals, 2 national reports (diabetes and asthma) and a few monographs.