The other day, for the 52nd time already (…it’s been going on for so long!) at the “Buddhism and Science Salon, I had a good talk with Rev. Gwen as my partner, the head monk of Hongwanji Temple. The theme this time was “Hero Brain and Villain Brain.” Needless to say, from the Pure Land
MyCR@UM, a system that allows physicians and clinical researchers to build and operate a reliable, standardized clinical registry without the knowledge of database or programming, is being developed by eHealth Unit of the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, and the Clinical Investigation Center. This project, too, is about to
Really, how many times have I talked with Rev. Gwen, the Go-Monshu, on this subject? However, it’s the Mādhyamaka School and the Yogācāra School as the “most fundamental religious philosophy platform of Mahayana Buddhism” that absolutely cannot be dropped, right? But unlike Tibetan Buddhism, where both doctrines can be the central talk even when it
As I reported in the past, we at UM (University of Malaya) are responsible for sub-projects in ASEAN in the bigger RESPIRE project led by the University of Edinburgh Medical School in the UK. One of the projects is creating a smartphone application for chronic asthma patients to prevent asthma attacks by capturing data on
This time, I gave a webinar to a lecture request in the “Health Informatics/Health Informatics” program designed for students of the UM (University of Malaya) Faculty of Medicine. However, the organizer, Prof Nasriah, who now teaches in Saudi Arabia, and myself and Prof Pang are all colleagues in the eHealth Unit anyways. Only Prof Sarinder,
Today, at 1:00 PM, I joined A/Professor TK of the Faculty of Computer Science in the School of Software Development as part of UMeHealth’s regular lunchtime webinar. The content, of course, was about the “MyCR@UM” (the “My” here stands for “Malaysia” and “My”) project, of which he is the technical lead and I am the
I have been living in Malaysia for 2.5 years now, and the day to leave here is approaching. I have about 6 months left of exciting and enjoyable days. We are sad to leave, but I’m sure I’ll return frequently as my relationship with Universiti Malaya and others will still continue. Since the start of
Today, the busy members of the eHealth Unit and I worked together on the “Master of Digital Health” program, which has been in the making for about a year now, and we are almost completing the essential ODL (Open and Distant Learning) content for this online distance learning course. Since there are members who are
On Saturday the 6th, the members of the “KL Rikuryo Kai” (the alumni association of Osaka Prefectural Kitano High School is so called after the school’s hexagonal emblem) had yet another gathering and this time it was fine Thai dinner. Man, we get together rather a lot. And we drink a lot, too. Each of
This project is one of the efforts at Universiti Malaya as part of the RESPIRE project led by the University of Edinburgh Medical School in the UK. We are currently in the process of reviewing the interface and core functionality of the app, and are now entering the climax of the project, incorporating feedback from