Ali Yaakub Jasmi MBChB, FRCSEdin. MS Gen Surg, (UKM)

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Ali Yaakub JasmiMBChB, FRCSEdin. MS Gen Surg,
(UKM)

• AY Jasmi is currently a Senior Consultant Surgeon
  and Professor of Surgery at the Department of
  Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti
  Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Kuala Lumpur,
  Malaysia. He obtained his FRCS from the Royal
  College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1990 and MS
  General Surgery from UKM in 1991. Following that
  he spent 2 years at the Leeds Institute of
  Minimally Invasive Therapy (LIMIT) in Leeds,
  United Kingdom from 1993 1994. Back in Malaysia
  he was responsible for establishing the Minimally
  Invasive Surgery Unit in the hospital and is
  currently heading the unit. He is active in
  propagating minimally invasive surgery throughout
  Malaysia.
• He holds many local and international posts
  including being the Governor for Malaysia in the
  Society of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons
  of Asia (ELSA), executive member of the
  Association of the University Surgeons of Asia,
  founder member and executive member of the Asia
  Pacific Endosurgery Task Force (AETF) for
  Advanced Endosurgical Training (2004), founder
  member and executive member of the Asia Pacific
  Hernia Society (2004) and executive member of the
  Asia Pacific Bariatric Surgery Group (2004). He
  was past president of ELSA from September 2003
  2005. He is also a member of the Editorial Board
  of The Asian Journal of Surgery.
• He performed the first laparoscopic
  transabdominal adrenalectomy in Malaysia in 1996
  and till date has more than 110 cases in his
  personal series. He also peformed the first
  endoscopic thyroidectomy in Malaysia in April
  2000. He pioneered many advanced laparoscopic
  upper GI procedures including laparoscopic
  Hellers cardiomyotomy, thoracoscopic and
  laparoscopic oesophagectomies, laparoscopic
  gastric procedures, laparoscopic splenectomy etc.
  He was the first in Malaysia to venture into
  laparoscopic bariatric procedures in the
  treatment of the morbidly obese and established
  UKM as the centre of minimally invasive surgery
  for morbid obesity.
• He is a regular invited speaker in many meetings
  and conferences both locally and internationally.
  He regularly contributes as a teaching faculty in
  many workshops organized in Malaysia as well as
  abroad. He was the organizing chairman of major
  international events in Malaysia including the
  Pre-congress ELSA workshop on Minimally Invasive
  Gastrointestinal and Endocrine Surgery 2003,  6th
  Asia Pacific Congress of Endoscopic Surgery 2003,
  International Live Surgery Workshop on Minimal
  Access Colorectal Surgery 2004, International
  Live Surgery Workshop on Minimal Access Hernia
  Surgery 2004, 1st Asia Pacific Hernia Society
  Congress 2005, 17th Annual Meeting of the Asia
  Pacific Endocrine Conference 2006 and 2nd
  Asia-Pacific Obesity Conclave Malaysian
  Association for the Study of Obesity (APOC-MASO)
  2007.