Esther Ebenezer

Biography:

Prof. Dr. Esther Ebenezer is the Professor in Psychiatry at UniKL Royal College of Medicine Perak. She obtained her Master in Psychological medicine from University Malaya and Fellow in Old Age Psychiatry from the University of Western Australia, Perth. She started the ‘Memory Clinics’ in University Malaya Medical Centre in 2004 and in Hospital Ipoh during 2006. Prof. Dr. Esther is the Chairperson of the Dementia Society Perak since 2010 and started the state’s first Dementia Daycare Centre. She is well known for her work on dementia and currently working on the ‘Ipoh Model of Care for Dementia’. She is instrumental in building Malaysia’s first purpose-built person centred BebeLEC day centre for People with Dementia. Her dream is to build a Dementia Specific Residential Home. She is also an EXCO member of the Alzheimer’s disease Foundation Malaysia (ADFM). She had published many articles and invited speaker for many occasions nationwide and in overseas conferences. Prof. Dr. Esther is actively involved as Principal Investigator in many research and clinical trials with new drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other psychiatric disorders.