Board of Honorary Advisors
Please click on each member’s photo to view their Curriculum Vitae.
Please click on each member’s photo to view their Curriculum Vitae.
MB BCh BAO (Dublin), F.R.C.S.(Ire)(C-Th), F.I.C.S. (USA), F.R.C.S.(Edin), F.A.C.S. (USA), F.A.M.M.
Dr. Anand Sachithanandan graduated from the RCSI medical school in Dublin, Ireland in 1998. He subsequently completed his postgraduate cardiothoracic specialist surgical training at leading hospitals in the UK. He is a British board - certified cardiothoracic surgeon since 2008 and has been practising as an independent consultant since 2010.
Dr. Anand is a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons, American College of Surgeons, Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Ireland and Edinburgh, and a fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia. He is a highly published surgeon with a special interest in thoracic (chest) conditions especially lung cancer. His clinical expertise includes minimally invasive keyhole VATS surgery. He has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international scientific meetings.
Dr. Anand is co-founder and President of Lung Cancer Network Malaysia (LCNM). He is a Clinical Tutor in Thoracic surgery at the Malaysian Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery (MBCTS) and a Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Surgery at Monash University Malaysia. Dr. Anand is currently practising at Sunway Medical Centre and the Subang Jaya Medical Centre.
MBBS(Sydney), MRCP(UK), FRCR(UK), PhD(Glasgow), CCT in Clinical Oncology(UK), Fellowship in Molecular Oncology(UK)
Dr. Tho Lye Mun read Medicine as a John Crawford Scholar and graduated from the University of Sydney, Australia in 1998. He went on to train and work in the UK, obtaining both internal medicine MRCP (UK) and clinical oncology FRCR (UK) qualifications. He was then awarded a prestigious joint Cancer Research UK and Royal College of Radiologists research fellowship where his research into novel checkpoint inhibitors as anti-cancer therapy led to him being awarded a PhD in molecular oncology from the University of Glasgow.
For his work he was also awarded the John Paul Medal and Anne Hollman Medal. After training and working overseas for 23 years, Dr. Tho returned to Malaysia taking up the post of Associate Professor at the University of Malaya and he then subsequently moved into private practice. His passion and commitment to lung cancer has seen him lead many clinical studies in the field, in particular immunotherapy and serve on numerous regional and international advisory bodies and guideline committees.
He has also pioneered the use of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for lung cancer having undergone further training in Korea and the Cleveland Clinic, USA. He is the current Vice President of South East Asian Radiation Oncology Group (SEAROG). He is co-founder and Vice President of Lung Cancer Network Malaysia.
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Chief Executive Officer of the British Malaysia Chamber of Commerce (BMCC)
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