Prof. Dato' Khalid's career has taken him through almost 35 years of study, research, teaching and administration in Medicine. He graduated with first class honours MBBS 1975 from Monash University, Australia and won the Henry Hindlip Green and the Harriet Power Prizes in Medicine.
He worked at the Alfred Hospital and Prince Henry’s Hospital, Melbourne, where he trained for his
FRACP in endocrinology and did his Ph.D. in Medicine awarded by Monash in 1984. He is a Fellow of The Royal Colleges of Physicians of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ireland, London, and College of Pathologist Australasia. He is also a Fellow of The Academy of Sciences (Malaysia) and Academy Of Medicine of Malaysia and Singapore. In 2008 he was made an honorary Fellow of the American College of Physicians.


He joined Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia as a lecturer in 1982, promoted to Associate Professor in 1984 and Professor in 1990. He was Dean from 1990 to 1997, and foundation Director of Hospital University Kebangsaan Malaysia from 1996 till 2000 when he stepped down to concentrate on clinical medicine and research. He retired from UKM in 2004 as Emeritus Professor. In September 2004 he
was made Professor of Medicine, Monash University in Malaysia and Head of Clinical School in Johor Bahru.


His main research interests are in stress and mechanisms of adaptation to stress by hormones, metabolic stress, and the relationship of socioeconomic factors as a form of stress in diabetes. He has published more than 270 papers and chapters in 4 international textbooks on endocrinology and diabetes and supervised 36 PhD’s and Masters graduates.


He is on the Editorial Board of Hormones & Metabolism., Clin Expl Pharm Physiol,. Asia Pacific J
Clinical Nutrition, and the international edition of Davidson’s Textbook of Medicine.


He was awarded the Tun Abdul Razak Research Award in 1986, The Asia Pacific Society Clinical
Nutrition Award 1996, the National Science Award in 1997 and was the joint winner of the MERDEKA Award for medicine, science and technology in 2008 He was an invited lecturer at the International Diabetes Federation Congress in Sydney (1988), Washington (1991), Kobe (1994) Helsinki (1997) and Montreal in 2009; The International Congress Endocrinology in Tehran 1999, and The IDF Western Pacific Region Congress Sydney (1999), Beijing (2002), and many other regional congresses in diabetes and endocrinology.

He was President of Malaysian Endocrine Society 1995 – 1998 and ASEAN Federation of Endocrine
Societies in 1992 -1993. He was President of Persatuan Diabetes Malaysia 1985 – 1990, and was a
Member of Council, International Diabetes Federation representing Western Pacific countries in 2000.
He was an elected member of the Malaysia Medical Council from 1986 till 2001, and was Master of
The Academy of Medicine of Malaysia 2005 – 2008.

It is indeed an honour for us, as organizers of UKMMC 2nd Medical Undergraduates' Annual Scientific Research Meeting to invite him to be our speaker for the Dato' Amir Abbas Keynote.