Prof. Dr Kalaiarasu M. Peariasamy

Director, Institute for Clinical Research
National Institutes of Health, Ministry of Health Malaysia 

Dr Kalaiarasu M. Peariasamy is the Director for the Institute for Clinical Research, National Institutes of Health, with responsibilities for 36 Clinical Research Centres with the Ministry of Health Malaysia. In this role, he chairs the Vaccine Selection Technical Working Group (TWG) of the special COVID-19 vaccine committee (JKJAV) Malaysia. Dr. Kalaiarasu has led the development, implementation and conduct of numerous clinical research and trials for healthcare programs. He is an internationally featured speaker on topics related to cleft lip and palate and traumatology. Dr Kalaiarasu has published in indexed journals and authored chapters in textbooks. In 2017 he was admitted as Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh without examination and in 2020 as Adjunct Professor at Taylor’s School of Medicine, Malaysia.9