National Heart Institute of Malaysia - Awards & Accomplishments

Awards & Accomplishments

• 1992
  • Performed 1st Open Heart Surgery & Angioplasty
• 1996
  • Performed 1st Automatic Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator
• 1997
  • Best Presentation Award (pediatric Cardiology Team) at the Royal Children’s Hospital International Symposium in Melbourne, Australia
  • Performed 1st Heart Transplant in the country
  • Performed 1st ASD Occlusion
• 2002
  • Paper entitled “Bilateral Aorta Iliac Occlusion won 1st prize in “Best of Asia Interventions” competition
  • Won an award in the Technical Services Improvement Project category at Asian Hospital Management Award held in Bangkok, Thailand
• 2003
  • Performed 1st awake CABG in the nation and regionally
• 2004
  • Awarded ISO 9000:2001 Certification
  • Awarded UKAS Quality Management Certification
  • Performed 1st stem cell transplantation which is reckoned to be the 1st in the region
• 2005
  • Awarded Malaysian Society for Quality in Health Accreditation (MSQH)
  • Performed 1st Single Lung Transplant
  • Awarded the International Dietetic Network Star Award by the American Overseas Dietetics Association (AODA) – Dietetic and Dietary Manager, the first Asian and Malaysian to receive this award from AODA for year 2005 nutriweb.org.my/article.php?sid=107
  • Performed Implanted IVAD, a mechanical heart
  • Performed single lung transplant
• 2006
  • Performed 1st Double Lung Transplant
  • Performed Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

• Collaboration partners:

Hospital

- Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital, India (2005)

- Papworth Hospital, United Kingdom (2005)

- Herz-Diabeteszetrum Nordrein Westfalen, Germany (2005)

- Sabah Medical Centre (2005)

- Hanoi Heart Centre, Vietnam (2006)

- Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (HUKM) (2006)

- Saudi German Hospital (Saudi Arabia) (2006)

- Pusrawi Hospital, Malaysia (2007)

University

- Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom (2006)

- Kansai Medical University, Japan (2006)

- University of South Australia (2007)

- University of Hasanuddin, Makassar, Indonesia (2007)