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Dr Timothy William

Designation:

Consultant in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases

Specialty:

Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine

Qualification:

MBBS ( Malaya) FRCP ( Edin)

License Number:

MMC No: 32457, NSR No: 130488

Languages:

English, Bahasa Melayu

Address:

Level 6, Outpatient Centre SJMC

Profile

Procedure Focus:

  • Not relevant

Condition Treated:

  • Acute Febrile (Fever) Illnesses.
  • Fever of Unknown Origin which is when the cause of the fever is difficult to determine and treat.
  • Infectious and Tropical Diseases  such as COVID-19, Dengue, Typhoid, Malaria Leptospirosis, Melioidosis and Typhus. Influenza and other Viral Fevers/Diseases 
  • Infections which involve the organs such as the brain (meningitis, encephalitis), skin and soft tissues, lungs (pneumonia), urinary tract infections, bone and joint infections. Surgical Site Infectiouns 
  • Acute Diarrheal illnesses for example  Acute Gastroenteritis , Cholera and food poisoning. 
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases such as syphillis, gonorrhea, herpes simplex 
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Tuberculosis 
  • Septicaemia (severe infection of the bloodstream) 
  • Infections by Antibiotic Resistant Organisms

Memberships & Associations:

  • Honorary Visiting Associate Professor with Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH), National University of Singapore (NUS)
  • President, Infectious Disease Society of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
  • Clinical Researcher, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Clinical Research Centre,  Kota Kinabalu
  • Honorary Fellow, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin Australia
  • Associate Investigator for the Australian Centre of Research Excellence in Malaria Elimination (ACREME)

Post Graduate Qualifications:

  • 2002-Member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP), United Kingdom
  • 2007-Infectious Diseases Advanced Training
  • 2013-Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh)

Clinical Training:

  • 2019-2022 – Infectious Disease Physician, Gleneagles Hospital Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
  • 2015- 2019 – Infectious Disease Physician, Jesselton Medical Centre, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
  • 2008- 2015 – Infectious Disease Consultant, Infectious Disease Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
  • 2007 – Registrar, Department of Medicine, Royal Darwin Hospital, NT, Australia
  • 2006 – General Physician for Internal Medicine and Clinical Specialist (equivalent to Senior Registrar) of Infectious Diseases, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
  • 2002- 2005 – General Physician for Internal Medicine and Clinical Specialist (equivalent to Senior Registrar) of Infectious Diseases, Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Malaysia
  • 1999-2002 – Medical Officer, Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
  • 1996-1999 – Medical Officer and Hospital Director, Tambunan Hospital, Sabah, Malaysia
  • 1995-1996 – House Officer, Johore Baharu Hospital

Awards:

  • 2019 – John Forbes Travel Award by the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
  • 2017 – Merdeka Award for Health, Science and Technology (Joint)
  • 2013 – Travel Award to the Scientific Meeting American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , Washington DC, US, 12-16 November 2013
  • 2010 – Professional Excellence Award, Ministry of Health
  • 2009 – Professional Excellence Award, Ministry Of Health, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
  • 2003 – Professional Excellence Award Ministry of Health, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur General Hospital
  • 2003 – Royal Rotary Club Award (Kuala Lumpur) for Service for the Treatment of patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
  • 2000 – Professional Excellence Award, Ministry of Health Malaysia, Queen Elizabeth  Hospital, Sabah

Medical School:

University Malaya

Media & Publications:

  • Dr Timothy William, The Merdeka Award 
  • Philosophies of the good doctor
  • Dr Timothy William, Google Scholar Links
  • EDGETalk #8 (Live) by Dr. Timothy William 
  • Severe Plasmodium knowlesi Malaria in a Tertiary Hospital, Sabah, Malaysia. Emerg Infect Dis 2011; 7: 17: 1248-55. William T, Menon J, Rajahram G, Chan L, Ma G, Donaldson S, Khoo S, Fredrick C, Jilip J, Anstey NM, Yeo TW.
  • A prospective comparative study of knowlesi, falciparum and vivax malaria in Sabah, Malaysia: high proportion with severe disease from Plasmodium knowlesi and P. vivax but no mortality with early referral and artesunate therapy. Clin Infect Dis 2013; 56: 383-97. doi: 10.1093/cid/cis902. Epub 2012 Oct 19. Barber BE, William T, Grigg M, Menon J, Auburn S, Marfurt J, Anstey NM, Yeo TW
  • Increasing incidence of Plasmodium knowlesi malaria following control of P. falciparum and P. vivax malaria in Sabah, Malaysia. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2013; 7 (1): e2026. William T, Rahman HA, Jelip J, Ibrahim MY, Menon J,  Grigg M, Yeo TW, Anstey NM, Barber BE.
  • Avian influenza (H7N9) virus infection in Chinese Tourist in Malaysia, 2014. Emerging Infectious Diseases 21 (1), 14 William T, Bharathan Thevarajah SFL, Suleiman M, Jeffree MS, Menon J, Yeo TW.
  • Changing epidemiology of malaria in Sabah, Malaysia: increasing incidence of Plasmodium knowlesi. Malaria J, 2014; 13 (1): 390 William T, Jelip J, Menon J, Anderios F, Mohammad, Mohammad TA, Matthew J Grigg MJ, Yeo TW, Anstey NM, Barber BE.
  • Pulmonary tuberculosis in outpatients in Sabah, Malaysia: advanced disease but low incidence of HIV co-infection. BMC Infectious Diseases. 2015; 15 (1), 32. doi: 10.1186/s12879-015-0758-6. T William, U Parameswaran, WK Lee, TW Yeo, NM Anstey, AP Ralph.
  • A randomized open-label clinical trial of artesunate-mefloquine versus chloroquine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in Sabah, Malaysia (ACT KNOW trial). Lancet Infect Dis, 2016: 16(2):180-8. Grigg MJ, William T, Menon J, Dhanaraj P, Barber BE, Wilkes CS, von Seidlein L, Rajahram GS, Pasay C, McCarthy JS, Price RN, Anstey NM†,  Yeo  TW† (†: equal contribution authors).
  • Tuberculous meningitis is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in adults with central nervous system infections in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia: an observational study. BMC Infect Dis. 2016; 16: 296. doi: 10.1186/s12879-016-1640. Lee HG, William T, Menon J, Ralph AP, Ooi EE, Hou Y, Sessions O, Yeo TW.
  • Rickettsioses as Major Etiologies of Unrecognized Acute Febrile Illness, Sabah, East Malaysia. Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 Jul;26(7):1409–19. doi: 10.3201/eid2607.191722. PMID: 32568664; PMCID: PMC7323546. Grigg MJ, William T, Clemens EG, Patel K, Chandna A, Wilkes CS, Barber BE, Anstey NM, Dumler JS, Yeo TW, Reller ME.

Clinic Hours

9:00 - 13:00 14:00 - 18:00 18:30 - 21:30
Monday SJMC SJMC
Tuesday SJMC SJMC
Wednesday SJMC
Thursday SJMC SJMC
Friday SJMC
Saturday
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