PATCH (Palm Tocotrienols in Chronic Hemodialysis) is a multi-countries project headed by Prof. Pramod Khosla from Wayne State University as a Principal Investigator. For Malaysia arm, my colleagues Prof. Tilakavati Karupaiah and myself headed this project. Through PATCH, we travelled to Bangladesh and India as part of our collaborative sites to conduct training session for nutrition assessment. Bangladesh in particular is lacking dietetics workforce / formally trained dietitians due to unavailability of dietetics program. As such kidney nutrition care are conducted by nutritionist that are lacking in clinical training.

My heartfelt gratitude to all of my colleagues in Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It was a fruitful visit. Looking forward to materialized some of the discussed collaboration agenda.

I had the pleasured to deliver a series of lectures to undergraduate and postgraduate students of UNAIR. Thank you UNAIR for the opportunity as a visiting academic. Looking forward for further collaborative work and student exchange in the near future.