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PROFILE
UPM's Staff Profile
DR. RAFIDAH BINTI MD SALLEH
PENSYARAH PERUBATAN
FACULTY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES
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Dr Rafidah Md Saleh
MD UKM, MSurg Ophthal UKM, Fellowship in Medical Retina, Bern.

Dr. Rafidah graduated as a Medical Doctor (M.D UKM) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in 2001 and started working in the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital thereafter.

She joined Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) as a trainee in the year 2006 and then completed her Masters in Ophthalmology in UKM. Five years later she started her journey of Subspecialty Fellowship in the field of Medical Retina in Bern Inselspital, Switzerland for a year under the supervision of Professor Sebastian Wolf. Her specialties are Diabetic Retinopathy, Age-Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD), and other retinal pathologies. Her most noted publication includes R Saleh, A Karpe, M Zinkernagel, and M Munk, “Inner retinal layer change in glaucoma patients receiving anti-VEGF for neovascular age-related macular degeneration,” Graefes​ Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol​, vol. 255, no. pp. 817-824, Apr 2017.

Other than that, she also writes and co-writes a few more papers in the Ophthalmology field. Dr. Saleh is a registered doctor under the National Specialist Register (NSR), a member of the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA), Malaysian Society of Ophthalmology (MSO) which is an active member of the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO).