Asma Abdullah

Professor and Senior Consultant, Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Asma Abdullah is professor and senior consultant in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz. She obtained her medical degree from UKM in 1995 and her Master of Surgery in ORL-HNS in 2002. Her expertise covers neuro-otology and lateral skull base surgery, including cochlear implants, acoustic neuroma, temporal bone carcinoma and cholesteatoma. She chairs the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program, headed the department in 2009-2011 and 2017-2018, and has more than 90 publications, among them studies on bilateral cochlear implant outcomes at UKM (2020) and cochlear implantation in older adults (2024). She is a board examiner for the Malaysian Postgraduate ORL Conjoint Exam.