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HONORABLE FACULTY HONORABLE FACULTY

WONG HAU-YUEN VISITING

PROFESSOR

Yong-Ju Jang Prepageran Narayanan

Professor Yong-Ju Jang is an internationally acclaimed rhinologic surgeon with a distinguished Professor Dato' Dr. Prepageran Narayanan is Senior Professor and Consultant in the Department of

expertise in Asian rhinoplasty and rhinologic surgery. He has authored prominent textbooks Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. As a world-
including Practical Septorhinoplasty and Rhinoplasty and Septoplasty. He has also published over renowned skull base surgeon, he has performed over 800 complex cases across more than 15
172 articles in leading peer-reviewed journals. countries and holds visiting professorships at 11 international universities.

Professor Jang’s research spans from clinical practice to basic science. His significant contributions are Professor Narayanan was President of the 9th World Congress of Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery

advancing the understanding of rhinovirus-related sinusitis, innovations in rhinoplasty procedures, from 2020 to 2024, President of the Asia Pacific Symposium on Cochlear Implants and Related
and leading research and treatment initiatives for empty nose syndrome and hereditary hemorrhagic Sciences (APSCI) from 2023 to 2025, and Founding President of the ASEAN Rhinology Society in
telangiectasia. 2022. His accolades include the Cochlear Implant Surgeon of Excellence Award from Myanmar in

2017 and the Excellence Professor Award 2024 from the University of Malaya.

Professor Narayanan has conducted over 250 live surgical workshops in more than 45 countries,
from the USA and UK to Japan and South Africa. Since 2005, he has led the 360° Skull Base
Workshop at University Malaya, training over 600 surgeons, a program now expanded to Hungary,

Taiwan, Pakistan, and South Africa. He is a co-author of the Atlas of 360° Skull Base Surgery, a
comprehensive 1,000-page reference published in 2022. The atlas was developed in collaboration
with experts from Harvard, Oxford, and Ohio University. He has also published 20 books, 3 lateral

skull base surgery e-books, 19 surgical manuals, 63 book chapters, and 315 peer-reviewed papers.
His YouTube channel, “ENT Skullbase UMMC”, reaches over 8000 subscribers worldwide.

Professor Narayanan has supervised 6 PhD candidates, 62 postgraduate students, and 90 clinical
Fellows from Malaysia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

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