Associate Professor Dr Hashim Embong is a lecturer and physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine, National University of Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC). He obtained his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine, UKM, in 2002 and pursued his career to become an emergency medicine specialist in 2011. He possesses solid experience in health care skills across age groups and severity, and his expertise includes analyzing complex clinical data to aid the completion of interdisciplinary care plans in the emergency department. Dr Hashim has been involved in several research activities and has a research interest in geriatric emergency medicine and extreme age groups, including pediatric, critical care and prehospital. He is a member of the aging and degenerative diseases research group, faculty of medicine (UKM).