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Academic Qualification
- Master of Surgery (Opthalmology) - Masters Degree (Clinical Specialist), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
- Dr - Bachelor Degree, Manipal International University
- Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) - Bachelor Degree, Manipal International University
Adzura Bt. Salam (Dr.)
Assistant Professor
IIUM Kuantan Campus
KULLIYYAH OF MEDICINE
adzura@iium.edu.my
4560
Expert Profile
Adzura binti Salam obtained his MBBS from MAHE Manipal, M.S in Ophthalmology from UKM, and fellowship in Medical Retina from Bern University Inselspital, Switzerland. After graduated in 1997 she served as a house officer at Hospital Alor Star before served as Medical Officer at hospital Sik, Kedah from 1998 till 2000. In 2000, she perusing her Master in Ophthalmology as IIUM trainee lecturer and completed in 2005. She served as a full time lecturer at IIUM since 2005. In 2010, she went to Bern, Switzerland to complete one year fellowship in Medical Retina under Prof. Dr. Dr. Sebastian Wolf. Upon completed the fellowship she continue serves as senior lecturer in IIUM Ophthalmology Department.
Her interest is in diabetic retinopathy and retinal imaging. She published few articles on diabetic retinopathy and retina imaging in few journals and books including Handbook Of Biophotonics, Volume 2: Photonics For Health Care By Willey VCH and Optical Coherence Tomography and Visual Acuity: Photoreceptor Loss. In: Optical Coherence Tomography by. Springer, New York
Presently Dr. Adzura is a senior lecture, Post Graduate Coordinator and Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Department of Ophthalmology, KOM of IIUM.
Her interest is in diabetic retinopathy and retinal imaging. She published few articles on diabetic retinopathy and retina imaging in few journals and books including Handbook Of Biophotonics, Volume 2: Photonics For Health Care By Willey VCH and Optical Coherence Tomography and Visual Acuity: Photoreceptor Loss. In: Optical Coherence Tomography by. Springer, New York
Presently Dr. Adzura is a senior lecture, Post Graduate Coordinator and Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Department of Ophthalmology, KOM of IIUM.
Area of Specialisation
- Medical And Health ~ Medical And Health Sciences ~ Clinical Medicine ~ Ophthalmology - Medical Retina
Teaching Responsibilities
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT 1 | 2012/2013 2013/2014 |
OCULAR DISEASE 1 | 2013/2014 2012/2013 |
OPHTHALMOLOGY | 2019/2020 2015/2016 2018/2019 2020/2021 2010/2011 2011/2012 2014/2015 2017/2018 2016/2017 2012/2013 |
Research Projects
Completed
2016 - 2020 | Factor Influencing Decision and Support Available for Eye Screening Among Diabetes Patients in Kuantan, Pahang. |
2016 - 2017 | An Asian, Phase 3, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled 14-week Study of DS-5565 in Patients with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain Followed by A 52-week Open-Label Extension |
2008 - | IIUM Kuantan Eye Screening (IKES) |
On-Going
2011 - Present | RU 2011 -IIUM Kuantan Eye Screening II- Relationship between retinal vessels diameter with optic disc parameter and retinal nerve fiber thickness. |
Publications
Article
2021 | A cross-sectional study on factors influencing attendance to eye screening. Enfermería Clínica, 31 (Supplement 2) pp. S321-S325 |
2020 | Factor influencing decision for eye screening among diabetes patients: a review. Nursing & Healthcare International Journal, 4 (1) pp. 1-8 |
2016 | Retinal vasculature fractal dimension measures vessel density. Current Eye Research, 41 (6) pp. 823-831 |
2013 | Long-Term intraocular pressure changes in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration treated with Ranibizumab. Ophthalmologica, 229 (3) pp. 168-172 |
2011 | Correlation of serum insulin like growth factor-I with retinopathy in Malaysian pregnant diabetics. International Journal Of Ophthalmology, 4 (1) pp. 69-72 |
2010 | How SD-OCT is changing our view of DME. Retinal Physician, () pp. 1-7 |
2009 | A mimicry of melioidosis by Klebsiella ozaenae infection. Malaysian Journal of Pathology, 31 (2) pp. 147-150 |
Conference or Workshop Item
2019 | A cross sectional study on factors influencing attendance to eye screening. In: 4th International Conference on Global Health (ICGH) in conjunction with the 7th Asian International Conference in Humanized Health Care (AIC-HHC) 2019., |
2019 | Auto-keratometer refractor- are they reliable?. In: 7th National Ocular Biometry Course (NOBC 2019), |
2019 | Nonproliferative and proliferative retinopathy. In: 11th Diabetes Complications Conference and Grand Rounds 2019, |
2017 | A study of factors influencing eye screening: Descriptive findings. In: Medical Research Symposium 2017, |
2011 | Association between foveal photoreceptor changes and visual acuity in diabetic macular edema : a spectral domain optical coherence tomography study. In: International Health Conference IIUM 2011 , |
Book Section
2012 | Diabetic retinopathy. In: Wiley-VCH, ISBN: , pp. 645-660 |
2012 | Diabetic retinopathy. In: Wiley-VCH, ISBN: , pp. 645-660 |
2012 | Optical coherence tomography and visual acuity: photoreceptor loss . In: Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-27409-1, pp. 51-86 |
2012 | Optical coherence tomography and visual acuity: photoreceptor loss . In: Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-27409-1, pp. 51-86 |