Dr Maryam Mohd Zulkifli has medical qualifications from the University of Malaya (MBBS) and a Master in Family Medicine from Universiti Sains Malaysia (MMed Fam Med). She is now the Assistant Co-ordinator of the Year 1 Postgraduate Family Medicine Programme, USM. Her focus is on child and adolescent health, elderly care, elderly diabetes and chronic care diseases, and mental health. She has around 15 peer-reviewed publications covering a range of methodological approaches, both qualitative and quantitative. She has completed two pharmaceutical clinical trials related to osteoarthritis and diabetes. She has graduated with one master's degree and currently supervises nine masters students of Family Medicine. She has also been serving as a reviewer for a few indexed and non-indexed journals. The impact of a pandemic on the self-care elderly is another field of her future clinical and research interests.