Tan Sri Dato' Dr Abu Bakar Suleiman

Tan Sri Dato' Dr Abu Bakar Suleiman (MBBS 1968, HonMD 1997) is the current Vice-Chancellor and President of International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur.

After graduating from Monash in 1968, Tan Sri Abu Baker completed a Master of Medicine at the University of Singapore.

He began his career as a medical officer with the Ministry of Health Malaysia and trained in internal medicine before becoming a consultant physician with the Department of Nephrology at Hospital Kuala Lumpur.

In 1975 he was visiting fellow to the Division of Nephrology of Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC as well as Prince Henry's Hospital in Melbourne.

Tan Sri Abu Bakar was appointed the Director of Medical Services in the Ministry of Health in 1987.

He became the Ministry's Deputy Director General of Health in 1989 before rising to the rank of the Director General of Health from 1991 to 2001.

After completing his services with the government he joined the International Medical University where he was appointed President in 2001.

Tan Sri Abu Bakar is the current President of the Malaysian Health Informatics Association, National Kidney Foundation and Association of Private Hospitals of Malaysia and Chairman of the Consultative Panel on Healthcare, National Productivity Corporation; and of the Ministry of Health Committee on Living Unrelated Donor Transplantation.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He currently sits on the board of KPJ Healthcare Berhad and several private limited companies.

In 2007 Monash honoured Tan Sri Abu Bakar with a Distinguished Alumni Award.