Pg Dr Md Nadzir bin Pg Mohd Juanda

Pg Dr Nadzir is currently a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Gleneagles JPMC. He entered University Brunei Darussalam in 2005 as the first cohort of the Institute of Medicine double-degree medical program and attained his first degree in Bachelor of Health Science in 2008. He was then awarded the Government of Brunei scholarship to complete his medical training in Canada.

In 2011, he received the Degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Calgary. He then moved to the capital city of Canada, Ottawa, for his specialist training in cardiac surgery. During his training, he also rotated through Cardiology and  Thoracic and Vascular Surgery. In 2017, he was appointed the Chief Resident at the Division of Cardiac Surgery. In 2018, he successfully completed his training as a certified cardiac surgeon at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, the largest dedicated cardiac centre in Canada. Throughout his training, he had obtained clinical and surgical experience in various cardiac centres in Canada (Toronto, Halifax, Calgary and Vancouver), in USA (Houston Methodist, Texas) and the United Kingdom (John Radcliff Hospital in Oxford, and Papworth Hospital in Cambridge).

Upon returning to Brunei in 2018, he was appointed as an Associate Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Gleneagles JPMC. He is currently a council member and one of the executive committee members of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia, a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and a fellow of the ASEAN Federation of Cardiology. He also holds the Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada and several association memberships including the Brunei Cardiac Society, the American College of Surgeons, the Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgeons, and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society.

His special interests include teaching medical students and junior doctors or surgeons, heart-related clinical and education research, critical cardiac care medicine, cardiac resuscitation, advanced heart failure management using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and other mechanical support therapy as well as innovating minimally invasive cardiac surgery in Brunei.