Teaching

assoc. prof. dr. zulfitri 'azuan mat daud

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM

The following are courses that I'm currently teaching (team-taught) or have taught in the previous years.

DTK3212 Assessment of Nutrition and Health Status of Patients
DTK3213 Introduction to Hospital Services
DTK3001 Seminar: Current Development in Dietetics
DTK3206/DTK3207 Medical Nutrition Therapy I/II
DTK3216/DTK3217 Medical Nutrition Therapy I/II
DTK3200 Clinical Nutrition
PKK3207 Clinical Nutrition I
PKK3208 Clinical Nutrition II
PKK3200 Principles of Human Nutrition
PKK4201 Nutritional Therapy
SPP3552 Alimentary System Module (Doctor of Medicine)
PKK3103 Basic Institutional Foodservice

GRADUATE PROGRAM

The following are graduate level courses that I'm currently teaching (team-taught) or have taught in the previous years.

PKK5102 Nutrition Epidemiology
PKK5304 Nutrition Assessment
PKK5305 Recent Advances in Primary Nutritional Care

EXTERNAL PROGRAM

Occasionally I have also taught some topics in other local and international universities. Some of my recent involvement in the year 2022 include the following:

Undergraduate Course: Healthy Diet; Topic: Healthy Diet for Prevention of Degenerative Diseases (Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Postgraduate Course: Nutrition and Diseases; Topic: Diseases Related to Carbohydrate Metabolism and Its Specific Diet (Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Professional Course for Dietitian Program: Topics: (1) Nutrition Care Process - Case Study on Diabetic Nephropathy; (2) Medical Nutrition Therapy for Chronic Kidney Disease (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Undergraduate Course: Dietetic and Generative Disease: Topics: (1) NCP for Hypertension, Glomerular Nephritis and Nephrotic Syndrome; (2) NCP for Chronic Kidney Diseases and Acute Kidney Injury (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Postgraduate Course: Dietary Approach for Acute Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Patients (Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)
Postgraduate Course: Nutritional Genomics and Personalized Diet in the Context of Chronic Diseases (UCSI Malaysia)

CURRICULUM RELATED ACTIVITIES

The following are some of my current involvement in curriculum related activities:

Appointed as a member for the National Task Force on Dietetics Education (TFDE), spearheaded by Malaysian Dietitians' Association. Some of the TOR of the TFDE include harmonization and promote excellence in dietetics education across Malaysia by oversee pedagogic standards and competencies for dietetic interns.
Appointed as a "Allied Fellow for the Center of Quality Assurance" in UPM. As a fellow, some of my TOR include auditing internal programs as part of the continuous quality improvement process.
Appointed as an auditor for Malaysian Qualification Agency (MQA). I am responsible to audit Malaysian universities offering nutrition and dietetics program to ensure that they are adhere to the stipulated standard and promote continuous quality improvement process.

GRADUATE student supervision

Hasmiza Halib, MSc

Ph.D. student, Nutritional Science

Email: hasmiza1304@gmail.com

Hasmiza is a PhD student in nutritional sciences. Her research centered on the benefits of functional food on health. Currently she is focusing on understanding the mechanism effects of cocoa polyphenols in dark chocolate on metabolic profiles of obese adult using metabolomic approach through a randomized controlled Trial. She holds a BSc in Food Science and Nutrition from Universiti Malaysia Terengganu and Msc in Community Nutrition from Universiti Sains Malaysia. She is currently a lecturer at the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin.

Alvin Lim Jun Hao, MSc

Ph.D. student, Clinical Nutrition

Email: limjunhao0624@gmail.com

Mr. Alvin is a PhD student in clinical nutrition. His research is centered on the cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetes patients. Currently, he is focusing on the i) Development and validation of a 10-year cardiovascular risk calculator for type 2 diabetes patients using a hybrid model of Structural Equation Modelling and Artificial Neural Network and ii) Exploring the complex gene-diet interaction for cardiovascular risk among diabetes patients using Nutrigenetics, Nutrigenomics and NutrimiRomics Approaches. He is also a research assistant (team leader) for a randomised controlled trial to investigate the effects of low glycemic index and polyphenol-rich red rice consumption on cardiometabolic markers (i.e., glycemic response, insulin resistance, oxidative stress, inflammatory markers, advanced glycation end-products, etc.) and explore its molecular mechanisms (i.e., Exosomal microRNA and Mitochrondrial DNA Methylation) in both diabetes and healthy individuals. He holds a MSc in Clinical Nutrition from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and BSc in Dietetics with Honours with Distinction from Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA).

Cordelia Lim Kheng May, BSc

MSc student, Clinical Nutrition

Email: cordeliamay07@gmail.com

Ms. Cordelia is an MSc student in clinical nutrition and holds a BSc in Dietetics with Nutrition with First-Class Honours from the International Medical University (IMU), Malaysia. Her research interest centered on the nutritional assessment of dialysis patients. She is currently focusing on the role of bioelectrical impedance analysis in detecting protein energy wasting among hemodialysis patients. She is actively involved in various research projects, covering numerous populations (i.e., healthy individuals, diabetic individuals, and children). Currently, she is a research assistant for a randomized controlled trial that aims to investigate the effect of rice substitution on cardiometabolic markers among diabetes patients and healthy participants. Besides, she is also a research assistant for a multi-Asian country project which aimed to assess the extent and nature of unhealthy food and drink TV marketing to children.

Jazlina Syahrul, BSc

MSc student, Clinical Nutrition

Email: jazlinas@upm.edu.my

Ms. Jazlina is an MSc student in Clinical Nutrition with very much interest in Renal Nutrition. Her research is centered on the Development of a Mobile Diet App for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patients. She is currently exploring the potential outcomes of the feasibility and acceptability of the CKD diet apps and their preliminary efficacy in enhancing dietary self-management, health behavior, and dietary knowledge among CKD patients. She holds a BSc in Dietetics from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and currently working as a Clinical Dietitian in UPM’s teaching Hospital (HPUPM). She is also one of the Clinical Educators at UPM who is actively involved in bedside teaching for Dietetic Interns.

Imliya Ibrahim, BSc

MSc student, Clinical Nutrition

Email: imliya.ibrahim@gmail.com

Ms. Imliya is an MSc student majoring in Clinical Nutrition and holds a BSc in Dietetics with First-Class Honours from Universiti Teknologi Mara in 2018. Her research interest is centered on the nutritional assessment of dialysis patients in regards to dietary practise during Ramadan fasting. Her current focus is on the establishment of a local specific Ramadan dietary patterns and to provide a better understanding of the specific relationship between the characteristics of dietary patterns to the nutritional and health outcomes of hemodialysis patients. This will be able to serve as a reference for dietitians to give nutritional education prior to Ramadan to ensure better health outcomes and prevent from any Ramadan complications. She is also involved in various research projects that required her to work with diverse population by developing personalized mobile apps to promote dietary self-management among Chronic Kidney Disease patients and collaborating with inter-disciplinary medical research teams to deliver dietary assessment among diabetic patients.

Lee Shi Wah, BSc

MSc student, Clinical Nutrition

Email: shiwah88@gmail.com

Ms. Shi Wah is an MSc student in clinical nutrition. Her research is centered on the sarcopenia and nutrition assessment in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis. Currently, she is focusing on investigating the role of bioelectrical impedance analysis in detecting sarcopenia among peritoneal dialysis patients. She holds a BSc (Hons) in dietetic from National University of Malaysia and currently works as a clinical dietitian in Hospital Serdang (a public hospital in Malaysia).

ALUMNI FROM MY LAB

The following are alumni from my lab.

Mohd Syafiq Md Ali (Dietitian cum clinical instructor at IIUM)
Nurul Iman Hafizah Adanan (Research Officer at Hospital Pengajar UPM)
Leong Sim Kian (Dietitian at Hospital Pakar Sultanah Fatimah, Muar)
Fatin Athirah Pauzi (Pursuing PhD at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)
Alvin Lim Jun Hao (Pursuing PhD in my lab)
Nurul Nastasha Ahmad

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