Khairuddin Mohamed Yusof

Khairuddin bin Mohamed Yusof, born in Perak in 1939, is a Malaysian obstetrician and gynecologist and a professor emeritus of the University of Malaya. He graduated in medicine and surgery from the University of Sydney in 1964 and became a Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1972. He served the University of Malaya for twenty-five years from 1972 to 1997, rising from lecturer to dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1986, and in the same year became deputy vice-chancellor for finance and development, at times acting as vice-chancellor. He headed the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the university hospital and held the chair in social obstetrics and gynecology. His publications with colleagues address community participation in primary health care, adolescent sexuality, drug abuse, urban poverty and women and child health in Malaysia. He holds the honorific Dato' Paduka from the Sultan of Perak and later served as director of a telemedicine company.