National Heart Institute (IJN)

Prof. Dato Sri Dr. Mohamed Ezani Md Taib

Group Chief Executive Officer

Prof. Dato Sri Dr. Mohamed Ezani is a Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon who has been with IJN for over 28 years. Appointed Group CEO in September 2024, he is a regional key opinion leader in heart failure surgery including heart transplantation, LVAD/Mechanical Heart System, and ECMO. Under his leadership IJN achieved HIMSS EMRAM Stage 6 validation (Malaysia's first) in December 2024 and received JCI Centre of Excellence designations for Heart Failure and VSD programmes in 2025.

Akmal Arief Mohamed Fauzi

Chief Executive Officer

Datuk Dr. Shaiful Azmi Yahaya

Chief Clinical Officer

Datuk Dr. Shaiful is a Senior Consultant Cardiologist with 17+ years at IJN, specialising in complex interventional cardiology including peripheral artery disease, TAVI, and endovascular aneurysm repair. Appointed Chief Clinical Officer, he holds international fellowships: FAsCC, FAPSIC, FNHAM.

Dato Sri Dr. Azmee Mohd Ghazi

Head of Cardiology

Senior Consultant Cardiologist with 13+ years at IJN, specialising in advanced heart failure, heart transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support. Head of Cardiology and Clinical Director of the Heart Failure & Heart Transplant programme. Led IJN to JCI CoE for Heart Failure in 2025. Also serves as Director of Sports Cardiology.

Dato Dr. Mohd Nazeri Nordin

Head of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery

Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Clinical Director of Heart & Lung Transplantation and the Mechanical Heart Programme. Sub-specialties: CABG, valve surgery, aortic root surgery, redo cardiac surgery, heart and lung transplantation, ECMO. Member of MATCVS, Malaysian Society of Transplantation, and ISHLT.

Dr. Marhisham Che Mood

Head, Paediatric and Congenital Heart Centre (PCHC)

Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist who heads IJN's PCHC, providing one-stop cardiac care from fetal diagnosis through adolescence. Also serves as Clinical Director for Congenital & Structural Intervention. Key figure in IJN winning the GlobalHealth Asia-Pacific Paediatric Cardiology Service Provider of the Year for five consecutive years.

Datuk Dr. Azlan Hussin

Clinical Director, Electrophysiology & Implantable Devices

Senior Consultant Cardiologist and Chairman of the Interventional Catheterisation Laboratory (ICL) with 25+ years experience. Pioneered IJN's electrophysiology programme. Led the first implantation in Southeast Asia of the Abbott AVEIR DR dual-chamber leadless pacemaker (2025) and the first use in Asia of the Affera Prism-2 AFib mapping and ablation system. Holds FACC (US) and FHRS (US) fellowships.