Juriza Ismail is a senior lecturer, a senior consultant paediatrician and developmental paediatrician of the Department of Paediatrics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She received her MBBS from the University of Malaya and completed her masters in pediatrics (UKM) in 2000 and subsequently joined the department of pediatrics UKM as a lecturer until now. She and a few colleagues initiated the Child Development Centre (CDC) in the teaching hospital in the year 2002, and the center was fully operational in the year 2006. It was the first CDC in Malaysia that catered to the assessment, diagnosis and intervention for children with special needs. Local training for the developmental pediatrics subspeciality was initiated, and, subsequently, significant numbers of developmental pediatricians were trained and were able to establish more CDCs around the country. Her research interests include autism spectrum disorder, feeding and sleep disorders and high-risk infants' follow-up.