Future Ready: Alumni Black Box Conversations is ISKL Alumni’s brand new careers series, featuring our own ISKL alumni sharing their pathways and inside career knowledge with the ISKL community. Each episode will look at a different professional grouping, exploring the many and varied opportunities for current ISKL students, as well as our Alumni already in the field.
The first episode of Future Ready: Alumni Black Box Conversations delves into Medical Sciences and is hosted by ISKL Alumni Hezril Asyraaf (‘13) who is Producer/Presenter of the Evening Edition on Malaysia’s business radio station, BFM 89.9.
Hezril is joined by other ISKL Alumni working and studying in the Medical Sciences:
- Dr Hana Aziz, Class of ‘98, is a general practitioner at the Malaysia Social Research Institute clinic in Ampang, providing care to the refugee community registered with the UNHCR. Hana earned her medical degree from the Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology and is currently studying for a Masters in Public Health. She started her medical career as an emergency doctor and has also worked as a health screening doctor at a major private hospital.
- Dr Elena (El-ee-na) Azizan is a Research Lecturer at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, and has recently received a major grant for Covid-19 research related to her field. Elena was an IB scholar who went on to receive a Bachelor of Pharmacology at Leeds University, then a Postgraduate degree in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Cambridge.
- Yu Ern Hsueh is in her third and final year of a Bachelor of Genetics at Queen Mary University of London. A Class of 2017 Alumna, Yu Ern plans to pursue further studies towards a medical career after completing her bachelor’s degree.
click HERE to watch the live streamed event.
