Emeritus Professor Dr Lin Hai Peng

Procedure Focus:

• Total Management of Paediatric Haematology-Oncology 
• Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) 
• Matched and Unmatched Related and Unrelated Donor HSCT 
• Haplo-identical Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (Haplo-HSCT) 
• Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation

Condition Treated:

• Paediatric Leukaemias and Solid Tumours (special interests: ALL, AML & JMML; Germ, Cell Tumours, Brain Tumours especially Medulloblastoma, Lymphomas (Hodgkin’s and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphomas); Wilms Tumour; Osteosarcoma, Neuroblastoma; Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH) and Haemophagocytic Lympho-Histiocytosis (HLH) 
• Paediatric Haematological Diseases – (special interests: Thalassaemia; ITP; Aplastic Anaemia; Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS)

Memberships & Associations:

• Academy of Medicine (AM)
• President, College of Paediatrics, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia (1999 – 2001) 
• Ahli Jawatankuasa, Majlis Perubatan Malaysia (Member, Malaysian Medical Council,1999 - 2002)
• Founder and President of Malaysian Society of Paediatric Oncology (MASPO, now renamed MASPHO) 1994 – 2000
• Chairman, Scientific Committee, 5th Asian Congress of Paediatric held in Kuala Lumpur,10-15 August 1985
• Chairman, National Specialist Register Specialty Sub-committee for Paediatric Haematology-Oncology, Inaugural Chairman till 2013 
• Member, National Specialist Register Specialty Sub-committee for Paediatric Haematology-Oncology 2014 to 2019
• Member, National Specialist Register Specialty Sub-committee for General Paediatrics from its inauguration to 2019 
• Member, Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) Specialty Sub-committee in Education for Paediatric Haematology-Oncology from 2020 
• Member, Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) Specialty Sub-committee in Education for General Paediatrics from 2020
• SJMC Principal Investigator, Co-Pioneered the Malaysia-Singapore Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (Ma-Spore ALL) 2002, 2010 and 2020 Collaborative Studies resulting in our ALL survival rates now becoming among the world’s best
• Co-Pioneered Ma-Spore ALL 2002 Collaborative Study with NUHS and UMMC; all hospitals in Singapore are now included in the Studies
• External Examiner, Final Professional MBBS Examination, National University of Singapore, March/April, 1992.; University of Hong Kong, 26-30 April 1999; Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia) November, 1987; Universiti Putra Malaysia, 1999 – 2001.
• Examiner for the MRCP (UK) Paediatrics Examination yearly from October 1996 and later the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK (MRCPCH) till 2016; a total of 20 years as a MRCP, Paediatrics/ MRCPCH Examiner)
• External Examiner, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan for The Postgraduate FCPS-II  Examination (Paediatrics), Karachi, Pakistan, 15-19 May, 1999

Post Graduate Qualifications:

• Member of the Royal College of Physicians, UK, MRCP (UK) 1975 
• Diploma in Child Health (DCH), Royal College of Physicians, London (1976) 
• Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians FRACP 1980 
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, FRCP(Edin) 
• Fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia, FAMM

Clinical Training:

• University of Malaya 
• University of Singapore 
• Paediatric Haematology - Oncology training by Dr Michael Willoughby at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, Scotland under the Academic Staff Training Scheme (ASTS), University of Malaya; also awarded the Heinz Fellowship by the Royal College of Physicians, London
• Sydney Children's Hospital, NSW, Australia 
• Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 
• University of Lund, Sweden 
• Free University of Berlin, Germany (BFM training)  
• Fred Hutchison Bone Marrow Transplant Centre, Seattle, USA

Awards:

• Excellence of Service Award, Ministry of Health, 2016
• Awarded among the 2005 Distinguished Research List of the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya
• Professor of Paediatrics, 1st July 1989 – July 2002
• Head(1992 -2000), Department Of Paediatrics, Faculty Of Medicine, University Of Malaya
• Senior Consultant Paediatrician 
• Senior Consultant in Paediatric Haematology & Oncology
• Director, Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Programme University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur 
• Pioneered the BMT Programme in Malaysia at the University of Malaya Medical Centre,  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• DID THE FIRST BMT IN MALAYSIA on 10th March 1987, followed  later by Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation (PBSCT) on 27-3-1997 and Cord Blood Transplantation (CBT) on 31-7-1997 
• EMERITUS PROFESSOR, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 2017

Medical School:

Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1965-1970)

Media & Publications:

• Summary of my Bibliography:
  • Citation counts: 1052, h-index 16 (as of 25-09-2021; citation details in Google Scholar Citations;
  • Chapters in books: 10 
  • Monograph: 1 
  • Articles in local, regional and international journals: 140 (UPDATED on 20-09-2022) including 40 AFTER I joined SJMC in 2002 and published in International Journals with high impact factors
  • Published Abstracts: 160 including >50 in international journals and 30 Abstracts presented and published AFTER I joined SJMC
  • Invited Speaker/ Participation (mostly with abstracts): 90 
  • Administrative papers and reports: 5