Professor Dr Nor Hayati Othman

Professor Dr Nor Hayati Othman obtained her medical degree, MBBS, from University of Malaya in 1981 and Master of Pathology from University of Malaya in 1987. She is a general surgical pathologist and had undergone various sub-specialty pathology trainings; Neuropathology from University of Western Australia in 1989; Dermatolopathology from University of Sydney in 1994, Molecular Pathology from University of Toronto in 1999 and University of Cape Town in 2002. She is currently the Dean [Clinical Science Research] for Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM).

She is currently a Council member for College of Pathologist, Academy of Medicine Malaysia and a member of the Editorial Board of Medical Journal of Malaysia. She used to be active in sports, playing hockey, netball and table tennis for her schools and Universities. In her spare time she writes poetry and plays keyboard for relaxation

Her research interests are in thyroid and gynae pathology especially on cervical cancer. She has 107 publications in peer-reviewed journals, presented 144 papers at national and international scientific conferences, 42 past and current research projects as main or co-investigators and supervised/co-supervised/supervising/-co-supervising a total of 38 students at MMed, MSc and PHD levels till date. Together with electronic and electric engineers from the USM engineering campus, she invented NeuralPap [diagnostic software to diagnose cervical cancer], DataPap [management system for cervical cancer] and Neuralmammo [diagnostic software to diagnose breast cancer]. These 3 inventions won several awards at national and international invention competitions.

She also has a keen interest in medical education and did training in PBL curriculum at University of New Mexico in 1995 upon which she is the main facilitator for PBL tutor training workshops in USM. In 2002 she did training in standardized patient program from 3 Universities in Texas; University of Texas Houston [UTH], University of Texas, Galveston [UTMB] and Baylor College of Medicine [BCM]. Both visits to United States were sponsored by ECFMG. Her name was cited as the first recipient of ECFMG fellowship from Malaysia in 1995.