Tan Geok Chin MBBS, PhD

Dr Tan Geok Chin is a Professor of Pathology, and Consultant Anatomical Pathology at Faculty of Medicine. He received his training in anatomical pathology in the National University of Malaysia and subsequently received his PhD degree at Imperial College London, United Kingdom where he studied the characteristics of microRNA isomers in Stem Cells. His work lead to the discovery of diverse function of isomiRs and their evolutionary importance and it was published in Nucleic Acid Research. Subsequently, he completed the Paediatric Pathology Fellowship training in Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA. He is currently the Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation, a member of the medical ethics committee in UKM and the Editor-in-Chief of the Malaysian Journal of Pathology. He has received multiple excellent service awards (2007 and 2019), as well as Best article award from Medical Journal of Malaysia and Best Poster Award from Royal Society, Edinburgh. He is a fellow of the Academy of Medicine Malaysia and holds a number of positions in the College of Pathologists and Malaysia Medical Council. He is a member of the credentialing committee of Anatomical Pathology, MMC. He is a member of the education committee and continuous professional development (CPD) committee of the CPath, AMM. He is the treasurer of the Chapter of Perinatal and Paediatric Pathology, CPath. He is a member of Perinatal and GUT Research Groups. His current research interest is in Paediatric and Perinatal Pathology, with a number of on-going projects, namely gene expression of hydatidiform mole, chorioamnionitis and its correlation with neonatal outcomes, and GUT microbiome of neonates.