Professor Dr.

Muhaya Mohamad
Professor Dr. Muhaya Mohamad currently serves as Consultant Eye Surgeon and Director of

PCMC Eye and Lasik Centre Prince Court Medical Centre, Professor of Ophthalmology of

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, and Adjunct Professor to International Islamic University of

Malaysia. Currently, she is the Chairperson of Malaysian Medical Association Ophthalmological

Society.

Besides that, she does motivational speeches to UKM, PCMC staff and students, professionals

and on TV and currently she’s also the Director of Personal Development of ACMS.

 Prof Muhaya graduated from medical school in 1985, obtained a Fellowship in Uveitis at

Moorfields Eye Hospital, United Kingdom in 1998, which culminated in a PhD from University

of London in Ocular Immunology. She was the first Malaysian to sub-specialise in Uveitis and

started the first Uveitis Service and immunosuppressive therapy in autoimmune eye diseases in

the country

To date, she is the point of reference in the management of Uveitis cases since 1998 and has

provided training for local ophthalmologists and residents in the field of Uveitis. In 2005, Prof

Muhaya was awarded with Special Distinguished Service Award by the Asia Pacific Academy of

Ophthalmology (APAO) at the 20th Congress of APAO, Kuala Lumpur.

Prof Muhaya is also the first Malaysian to have a formal training in the use and interpretation of

Optical Coherence Tomography which is the latest state of the art diagnostic instrument, crucial

in the management of retina and glaucoma cases. In 2006 she organised the first OCT

symposium in Malaysia.
Her latest achievement is being the first ophthalmologist in South East Asia to perform bladeless

femtosecond LASIK using the Visumax system which is the latest bladeless LASIK system. As a

Professor in Ophthalmology, she has been giving lectures to undergraduates and postgraduates of

UKM in general ophthalmology, Uveitis, medical retina and neuro-ophthalmology.

Apart from Ophthalmology her other passion is personal development and motivation and she is

a regular speaker in the ACMS and PCMC orientation week talking about personal effectiveness

and a regular speaker for motivation talks to medical students in UKM, International Islamic

University, Universiti Malaya, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia and Cyberjaya University

College of Medicine. Her latest invitation on motivation is on Hot at One Motivation on TV1 on

2nd January 2009 and 16th February 2009 on topic “Self Esteem”.

Until today she appears on IKIM, TV1 and TV2 frequently. And to date, she has also recorded

her new show on astro prima coming out this year.

She is frequently invited to local mass media to speak about eye diseases and has a regular

column on eye care in the Utusan Malaysia. Professor Muhaya uses the holistic approach in

dealing with her patients by stressing the importance of being grateful at every moment in their

life. Her ability to incorporate Islamic values into everyday life and her professional practice

makes her a much sought after speaker in personal and professional development talk and eye

surgeon in Malaysia. She was instrumental in starting the personal and professional development

module to be incorporated in UKM medical faculty curriculum.

What I love most about her is she always insert Islamic value in her daily life. I am very

impressed with her as she always gives support to her patients mentally and physically. I adore

her very much. She is my role model. She always advice her patients to pray five times in daily
life. The interesting part about her that I remember is she put the first criteria to work with her is

prayer five times a day. If someone not obey the the law of God, how can that someone could

obey laws that was made by her. In a nutshell, what you sow is what you reap, if you help

someone with the intention of pleasing Allah, someone else will help you when you are in need.

Professor Dr. Muhaya Mohamad always give words of wisdom in her social network, Facebook.

I also always read her blog as she update about her daily life with patient. Dr. Muhaya is an

example to me that even in my career as student, it is not difficult to practice Islam as a way of

life. Furthermore, in my future career as a teacher also I should take Dr. Muhaya as an example. I

hope one day I will gain benefits from my knowledge so that I can contribute to the society as

well as to my religion because Islam is already in my blood.