Born at the Assunta Hospital, Petaling Jaya, Selangor on 26th February 1976, Assistant Professor Ts. Dr. Shah Farez bin Othman is an academic, optometrist, vision scientist, professional technologist and homeopath. His earlier schooling years were spent at the St. John Primary School in Kuala Lumpur, then Sekolah Menengah Sains Raja Tun Azlan Shah in Taiping, followed by the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) Matriculation Programme, both at Sekolah Menengah Sains Sultan Mahmud, Kuala Terengganu and Pusat Matrikulasi UKM, Kuala Pilah. He subsequently furthered his study in the UKM, having Bachelor of Optometry (Hons) in 1999. Upon graduation, he had been working as an optometrist at an optical chain store in Seremban, staff optometrist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kota Kinabalu, and resident optometrist cum practice manager at the Grand Eye Care Centre, The Southern Hospital, Melaka. In June 2004, Dr. Shah joined academia at the International University College of Technology Twintech, Kuala Lumpur as a lecturer in optometry and pioneered staff for the first optometry programme in a private institution in Malaysia. He pursued his higher degree at UKM in 2005 on a part-time basis and obtained a Master of Health Science (Optometry) by research in 2010. He has been a registered optometrist with the Malaysian Optical Council (MOC) since 1999 and a Fellow of the Association of Malaysian Optometrists since 2007. In 2012 he went to the University Putra Malaysia, Serdang to do his PhD in Applied Optics on a part-time basis. He successfully obtained his PhD in 2020 and joined the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) In July 2021. Prior to joining IIUM, he was a Senior Lecturer in Optometry and pioneered staff for the optometry programme at the the SEGi University from October 2010 to June 2018. He was also the Head of School and Assistant Professor of Optometry at the UCSI University from July 2018 to July 2021.   

Dr. Shah has 21 years of experience at all educational levels as a lecturer, researcher, manager including 26 years as an optometrist. His professional training and research have been in the areas of Clinical Optometry, Ocular Imaging, and Applied Optics. His current interest is in Applied Optics which includes Eye Model Construction. He has also been involved in committees and consultancy for a new programme, curriculum reviewers, assessors for the academic staff promotion, reviewers for peer-reviewed scientific journals, internal grant reviewers, and assessors for postgraduate Master's and Ph.D. His other research endeavours and professional competence are in the ocular structural and visual function changes in myopia. Dr. Shah was an Adjunct Lecturer at UCSI University teaching in the areas of entrepreneurship & ethics, and optics for optometry.   

Beside of having an optometry qualification, Dr. Shah is also a practicing homeopath. In 2010, he obtained the Diploma in Homeopathic Medical Science from The Homeopathic Academy Council of Malaysia, under the Persatuan Perubatan Homeopathy Malaysia.  Since then, Dr. Shah has been a freelance homeopath for the past 15 years, and a registered homeopath with the Majlis Perubatan Tradisional dan Komplementari, Malaysian Ministry of Health (MOH). He is also a professional technologist in the field of Health and Medical Technology registered under the Malaysia Board of Technologists.   

Dr. Shah was an Associate Editor, of the International Journal of Allied Health Sciences, and a Committee Member for KAHS Innovative Teaching and Simulation Learning. He was also the coordinator for the IIUM Continuing Optometric Education. At the national level, Dr. Shah served as an Executive Member, of the Malaysian Academy of Optometry, and a member of the Professional Qualifying Assessment (PQA), MOC. 

Dr. Shah is currently an Assistant Professor of Optometry at the Kulliyyah of Allied Health Sciences, IIUM, Kuantan Campus. He is also a Consultant Optometrist at the IIUM Optometry Clinic, which is the University eye clinic. Dr. Shah was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Science, UPM between 2023 and 2025.  At the national level, Dr. Shah served as a Committee Member, of the Malaysian College of Optometrists. He is also an Editorial Board member for both the ASEAN Journal of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education, and Journal of Ocular Sciences and Ophthalmology. 

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