Suriawati Abu Aziz is a Senior Clinical Dietitian at Kuala Lumpur Hospital (HKL), Malaysia, with over 22 years of experience in clinical dietetics, critical care nutrition, healthcare service development, research, education and leadership. She leads the Critical Care Dietetics team in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Emergency Department at HKL, providing evidence-based Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) and nutrition support within multidisciplinary teams.
She holds a Master of Medical Science (Research) from Universiti Malaya and a Bachelor of Dietetics (Hons.) from National University of Malaysia (UKM). Her expertise includes MNT, Nutrition Support Team (NST), critical care, service improvement, digital transformation, data analytics and health informatics. She holds a Postgraduate Executive Certificate in AI in Healthcare from UTM.
She has contributed to national clinical guidance, including the Malaysian Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG), as well as Malaysian Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) guideline and Ministry of Health dietetic service SOPs. She has published research in a Tier 1/Q1 Web of Science-indexed journal.
She is also involved in education as a preceptor for dietetic internship programmes and supports clinical training and professional development.
She is also a NIOSH (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) Occupational Safety and Health Train-the-Trainer (TTT) and HRD Corp Registered Trainer, as well as a DOSH Psychosocial Trained Person (PTP) and NIOSH Ergonomics Trained Person (ETP) trained in both Initial and Advanced Ergonomic Risk Assessment (ERA). Her broader interests include occupational health, healthcare innovation, digital health and evidence-based practice.