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Raihanah Binti Haroon

Academic Qualifications

  • Master of Medicine (Radiology) - Masters Degree (Clinical Specialist), International Islamic University Malaysia
  • BACHELOR OF MEDICINE, BACHELOR OF SURGERY, BACHELOR OF OBSTETRICS - Bachelor Degree, National University of Ireland

Raihanah Binti Haroon (Dr.)

Assistant Professor
IIUM Kuantan Campus

KULLIYYAH OF MEDICINE

raihanahharoon@iium.edu.my
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Expert Profile


Dr Raihanah completed her undergraduate training at the Royal College of Surgeon Ireland (RCSI) and Penang Medical College (PMC) in 2012 and began her housemanship training at Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) in 2012-2014. She then continued to serve Ministry of Health by joining Klinik Kesihatan Masai, Pasir Gudang from 2014-2016. She later joined IIUM in 2016 as a trainee lecturer at the Department of Radiology and pursued her clinical master program in Radiology at IIUM from 2016-2020.

She currently serves at IIUM Kuantan and Sultan Ahmad Shah Medical Centre (SASMEC @IIUM) as a General Radiologist and lecturer. She has deep passion in teaching and research, and has developed interest particularly in breast and women imaging.


Area of Specialisation


  • Medical And Health ~ Medical And Health Sciences ~ Clinical Medicine ~ Surgery


Teaching Responsibilities


Sectional Anatomy 2023/2024
ADVANCED MEDICAL PHYSICS 2025/2026
ADVANCED RADIOLOGY ROTATION 2025/2026 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023
BASIC RADIOLOGY ROTATION 2025/2026 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023
CLINICAL RADIOLOGY IA 2025/2026
CLINICAL RADIOLOGY IB 2025/2026
CLINICAL RADIOLOGY IC 2025/2026
CLINICAL RADIOLOGY ID 2025/2026
CLINICAL RADIOLOGY IIA 2025/2026
CLINICAL RADIOLOGY IIB 2025/2026
CLINICAL RADIOLOGY IIC 2025/2026
CLINICAL RADIOLOGY IID 2025/2026
CLINICAL RADIOLOGY IIIA 2025/2026
CLINICAL RADIOLOGY IIIB 2025/2026
CLINICAL RADIOLOGY IIIC 2025/2026
CLINICAL RADIOLOGY IIID 2025/2026
CLINICAL RADIOLOGY IVA 2025/2026
CLINICAL RADIOLOGY IVB 2025/2026
CLINICAL RADIOLOGY IVC 2025/2026
CLINICAL RADIOLOGY IVD 2025/2026
DISSERTATION I (RESEARCH PROPOSAL) 2025/2026
DISSERTATION II (DATA COLLECTION, ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION) 2025/2026
DISSERTATION III (WRITING, PRESENTATION & ASSESSMENT) 2025/2026
INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY I 2025/2026
INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY II 2025/2026
INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY III 2025/2026
INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY IV 2025/2026
MEDICAL PHYSICS 2025/2026
MULTIMODALITY RADIOLOGY ROTATION 2025/2026 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023
PRINCIPLES OF RADIOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES ANDSPECIALISED MODALITIES 2025/2026
PROFESSIONAL AND MANAGERIAL DEVELOPMENT 2025/2026
RADIOLOGY 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021
SECTIONAL ANATOMY 2023/2024 2022/2023


Supervision


Tumour Infiltrating Lymphocytes (Tils) And Its Association With Breast Carcinoma Imaging Characteristics At Sultan Ahmad Shah Medical Center, Iium.
Master Completed 2025 Co-supervisor
Sonographic And Elastography Features Of Liver Fibrosis In Well Controlled And Poorly Controlled Type Ii Diabetic Patients In Kuantan, Pahang.
Master In Progress Main Supervisor
Correlation Between Complete Circle Of Willis And Severity Of White Matter Disease Based On Fazekas Scale Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mri) Brain In Sasmec@Iium.
Master In Progress Main Supervisor
Correlation Between Liver Stiffness Using Point Shear Wave Elastography With Fib-4 Index In Chronic Hepatitis Patients At Sasmec @Iium.
Master In Progress Main Supervisor
Tbd.
Master In Progress Main Supervisor
Correlation Between Complete Circle Of Willis And Severity Of White Matter Disease Based On Fazekas Scale Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mri) Brain In Sasmec@Iium.
Master In Progress Co-supervisor
Mammographic And Sonographic Features Of Invasive Breast Carcinoma And Its Association With Histopathological Findings Among Breast Cancer Patients In Sultan Ahmad Shah Medical Centre (Sasmec)@Iium.
Master In Progress Co-supervisor
Correlation Between Liver Stiffness Using Point Shear Wave Elastography With Fib-4 Index In Chronic Hepatitis Patients At Sasmec @Iium.
Master In Progress Co-supervisor
Image Quality, Radiation Dose And Mammographic Pain Experience Using Self-Compression Technique In Mammography At Sasmec @Iium.
Master In Progress Co-supervisor
Mammography Related Pain And Its Association With Patient Characteristics And Breast Cancer Risk Factors In Sasmec @Iium, Kuantan, Pahang.
Master In Progress Co-supervisor
Association Of Mammographic And Sonographic Findings With Molecular Subtypes Among Breast Cancer Patients, In Sultan Ahmad Shah Medical Center (Sasmec) @Iium.
Master In Progress Co-supervisor


Research Projects


Completed
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On-Going
2025 - Present The Impact of Self-Assisted Compression Technique in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis on Mammographic Pain, Image Quality and Radiation Dose
2025 - Present DISTINGUISHING TUMORS FROM NON-TUMORAL INTRACRANIAL LESIONS USING MR SPECTROSCOPY OF MRI BRAIN IN SULTAN AHMAD SHAH MEDICAL CENTRE @IIUM, KUANTAN
2025 - Present Correlation Between Complete Circle of Willis and Severity of White Matter Disease Based on Fazekas Scale Using Magnetic Resonance Brain Imaging in SASMEC @IIUM
2025 - Present The Clinical Utility of Imaging and Radiomics Characteristics in Predicting Clinicopathological Features and Tumour Microenvironment of Breast Carcinoma


Publications


Articles

2024 The nomadic bug: a case report of salmonella septic arthritis of sternoclavicular joint in a healthy patient. Cureus Journal of Medical Science, 16 (4) pp. 1-5
2024 Tuberculous encephalopathy mimicking limbic encephalitis and large intraparenchymal mass: a case report. IIUM Journal of Orofacial and Health Sciences, 5 (1) pp. 90-95
2024 Upper tract transitional cell carcinoma: an array of imaging conundrum. IIUM Journal of Orofacial and Health Sciences, 5 (1) pp. 96-102
2023 A case of foreign body aspiration mimicking asthma in adult. Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences, 19 (5) pp. 428-430
2023 Characterization of Alar Ligament in young adult on 3.0T MRI: a cross-sectional study in IIUM Medical Centre, Kuantan. Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences, 19 (1) pp. 149-157
2023 Magnetic resonance imaging anatomy of alar ligament: a review of literature. Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences (MJMHS), 19 (5) pp. 389-398
2023 On-site sequencing of SARS-COV-2 genomes identify two variant of concern clusters in Pahang, Malaysia. Current Science and Technology (CST), 2 (2) pp. 1-7
2023 Pemeriksaan ultra bunyi kesan penyakit. Berita Harian, (10 Feb 2023) pp.
2023 Where is the missing chicken bone? a case of foreign body cystic bronchiectasis. IIUM Journal of Orofacial and Health Sciences, 4 (1) pp. 99-104
2021 Adult ileocolic intussusception in caecal adenocarcinoma –an infrequent phenomenon. International Journal of Allied Health Sciences, Vol. 5 (No. 1 (2021): Special Issue) pp. 2160-2160
2021 Bacterial meningitis. Radiopaedia, () pp.
2020 Multiple biliary hamartoma - incidental finding. Radiopaedia, () pp.
2019 Upper tract transitional carcinoma: an array of imaging conundrum. IIUM Medical Journal Malaysia, 18 (Supplementary Issue 2) pp. 57-57
2018 Tuberculous encephalopathy mimicking limbic encephalitis and large intraparenchymal mass: a challenge in diagnosis. IIUM Medical Journal of Malaysia, 17 (Supplementary Issue no. 1) pp. 92-92
2010 Belief and practices of traditional post partum care among a rural community in Penang Malaysia. The Internet Journal of Third World Medicine, 9 (2) pp. 1-9
Conference or Workshop Items

2025 Digital radiograph rejection and image quality analysis during COVID-19 in the radiology department at a tertiary hospital in Kuantan. In: AOCMP-SEACOMP 2024,
2023 Adolescent Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Mimicking Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma​. In: Medical Research Symposium 2023,
2023 Correlation of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus with liver fibrosis on ultrasound elastography: a narrative review. In: Medical Research Symposium 2023,
2022 Rapid Identification of SARS-CoV-2 Lineages from Two Major Clusters in Pahang, Malaysia Using MinION Sequencer. In: International Conference on Biomedical Engineering,
2021 A Case of Rare Desmoid-Type Fibromatosis Presented as a Breast Lump. In: 19th Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology,
2021 A disastrous complication of colonephrocutaneous fistula: brain abscess. In: Medical Research Symposium 2021,
2021 Adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma mistaken as rathke cleft cyst: a case report. In: 19th Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology,
2021 Case series of breast fillers and how things may go wrong: radiology point of view. In: 19th Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology incorporating Malaysian Congress of Radiology (MCOR) 2021,
2021 Characterization of alar ligament on 3.0T MRI: a cross-sectional study in IIUM Medical Centre, Kuantan. In: 19th Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology incorporating Malaysian Congress of Radiology (MCOR) 2021,
2021 Difference between Alar ligament of male and female: MRI perspectives. In: Kuantan Research Day 2020,
2021 Pictorial review of rectal carcinoma: A single centre MRI experience in SASMEC @IIUM. In: 3rd International Virtual Conference on Biosciences and Medical Engineering,
2021 Synchronous spindle cell Sarcoma of Sternum and left breast invasive Carcinoma: a case report. In: 6th Singapore Breast Oncoplastic Surgery Symposium,
2021 The nomadic bug: a case report of salmonella septic arthritis of the sternoclavicular joint. In: Virtual Medical Research Symposium 2021,
2021 Where is the missing chicken bone ? a case of foreign body bronchiectasis.. In: 19th Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology incorporating Malaysian Congress of Radiology (MCOR) 2021,
2021 Where is the missing chicken bone ? a case of foreign body bronchiectasis.. In: 19th Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology incorporating Malaysian Congress of Radiology (MCOR) 2021,