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Dr. Nasriah Zakaria is an Associate Professor at ehealth unit, Dean’s office in Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya. She oversees the development of the Master of Digital Health curriculum and the teachings of Digital Health at University Malaya. Prior to this Dr. Nasriah Zakaria was an assistant professor at Medical Informatics and e-learning unit (MIELU), Medical Education Department, College of Medicine at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia from 2012-2020. She was also a senior lecturer at School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia from 2006-2016.

Dr. Nasriah obtained her Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering and Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA in 1997 and 2001 respectively.

In 2006, Dr. Nasriah attained her doctorate in Information Science and Technology from Syracuse University, USA. Dr. Nasriah also obtained Certification in Medical Informatics (10×10) from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in 2008.

Dr. Nasriah is the Principal Investigator for a few g grants on Information Privacy Requirements for Cancer Web Portal, Acceptance of Teleconsultation System for Breast Self-Examination (BSE) and Factors that Influencing Medical Teams’ Communicative Behaviors: The culture of IT Adoption. Her latest work includes e-health literacy scale for non-communicative disease, Registry for Mother and baby, Privacy aspect of Psychiatric Behavior monitoring system and Ehealth professionals career pathways.