Biografi/ Biography :
Dato’ Dr. Jegan Thanabalan is an Associate Professor and a Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon at the National University of Malaysia. He has been a lecturer at UKM Medical Center since 2002. His area of interest is in Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery, Neuroendoscopy , Functional neurosurgery and Epilepsy.
Dato’ Dr. Jegan completed his MBBS at the University of Mangalore in 1994 and obtained his MS at the National University of Malaysia in 2002. He then completed his fellowship training in Functional Neurosurgery at Oxford, United Kingdom in 2008. He went on to train in Endoscopic Skull Base surgery at Naples in 2010 and at the University of Pittsburgh in 2011.
He then initiated the Endoscopic Skull Base and Deep Brain Stimulation services at the National University of Malaysia.
Apart from clinical work, Dato’ Dr. Jegan is involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and has been an examiner since 2002. He has also contributed to publications both locally and internationally in reputable journals.
His main area of research involves pituitary tumors, fMRI, DTI and head injury. He has participated in both local and international multicenter trials. He is an invited speaker at several national and international conferences.
Dato’ Dr. Jegan has conducted and has been in the organizing committee for various workshops including Endoscopic Skull Base workshops, Neurotrauma and Image Guidance Stereotaxic workshops.
Dato’ Dr. Jegan is a member of the Neurosurgical Association of Malaysia, Malaysian Society of Neurosciences and the Movement Disorder Society.
ereena alfian, othmaliza othman, niki ho wai wye, mae-lynn catherine bastion, farizal fadzil, jegan thanabalan, marfuah nik eezamuddeen, fuad ismail, shahizon azura mohamed mukari, siti khadijah hamsan, ramesh kumar. (2025). gamma knife radiosurgery for ophthalmic lesions: a retrospective review. - malaysian ophthalmology scientific congress 2025. .
irma wati ngadimon, devi mohan, mohd farooq shaikh, ching soong khoo, hui jan tan, yu mey lee, nor syazwani chamhuri, farizal fadzil, nursyazwana zolkafli, alina arulsamy, jegan thanabalan, angel aledo-serrano, wing loong cheong. (2025). hmgb1 blood levels and neurological outcomes after traumatic brain injury: insights from an exploratory study. - epilepsia open. 494 - 507.
ereena alfian, niki ho wai wye, othmaliza othman, farizal fadzil, jegan thanabalan, marfuah nik eezamuddeen, fuad ismail, shahizon azura mohamed mukari, siti khadijah hamsan, ramesh kumar. (2025). eye on precision: a technical guide to gamma knife radiosurgery for ophthalmic lesions. - 9th asian leksell gamma knife society meeting 2025. .
siva baskra kanthan, yuh yang leong, marfuah eezamuddeen, fuad ismail, farizal fadzil, jegan thanabalan, siti khadijah hamsan, ramesh kumar. (2024). a case series: a dural av fistula with multiple comorbid patients treated with gamma knife stereotactic surgery (gkrs). - 24th agm & 22nd asm of neurosurgical association malaysia & sarawak neurosurgery update 2024. .
ereena alfian, farizal fadzil, jegan thanabalan, toh charng jeng, marfuah eezamuddeen, fuad ismail, shahizon azura mohamed mukari, siti khadijah hamsan, ramesh kumar. (2024). clinical outcomes of gamma knife radiosurgery in patients with symptomatic cavernous malformations: a single-centre study. - 24th agm & 22nd asm of neurosurgical association malaysia & sarawak neurosurgery update 2024. .
irma wati ngadimon, devi mohan, mohd farooq shaikh, ching soong khoo, hui jan tan, yu mey lee, nor syazwani chamhuri, farizal fadzil, nursyazwana zolkafli, alina arulsamy, jegan thanabalan, angel aledo-serrano, wing loong cheong. (2025). hmgb1 blood levels and neurological outcomes after traumatic brain injury: insights from an exploratory study. - epilepsia open. 494 - 507.
ngadimon, irma wati; mohan, devi; shaikh, mohd. farooq; khoo, ching soong; tan, hui jan; chamhuri, nor syazwani; cheong, wing loong; aledo-serrano, angel; yong, li ling; lee, yu mey; fadzil, farizal; thanabalan, jegan. (2024). incidence and predictors of posttraumatic epilepsy and cognitive impairment in patients with traumatic brain injury: a retrospective cohort study in malaysia. - epilepsia. 1962 - 1974.
geng ju tuang, farah dayana zahedi, salina husain, aneeza khairiyah wan hamizan, thean yean kew, jegan thanabalan. (2023). volumetric evaluation of the sphenoid sinus among different races in the southeast asian (sea) population: a computerized tomography study. - international journal of medical sciences. 211-218.
zhe kang law, jason p appleton,polly scutt, ian roberts, rustam al-shahi salman, timothy j england, david j werring, thompson robinson, kailash krishnan, robert a dineen, ann charlotte laska, philippe a lyrer, hanne christensen, philip bath, nikola sprigg. (2022). brief consent methods enable rapid enrollment in acute stroke trial: results from tich-2 randomized controlled trial. - stroke. 1141-1148.
nor shafiza abdul wahab, noorazrul yahya, ahmad nazlim yusoff, rozman zakaria, jegan thanabalan, elza othman, soon bee hong, ramesh kumar athi kumar dan hanani abdul manan. (2022). effects of different scan duration on brain effective connectivity among default mode network nodes. - diagnostics. 1-17.
johannes low jun wei, ammar akram kamarudin, bee hong soon, kamalanathan palaniandy, azizi abu bakar, jegan thanabalan, ramesh kumar athi kumar, ainul syahrilfazli jaafar, sanmugarajah paramasvaran, farizal fadzil, nadiah abu. (2024). profiling of autoantibodies in the sera of glioblastoma patients. - immunotherapy. 1049 - 1056.
bee hong soon, nadiah a, nor azian am, sue-mian then, azizi ab, farizal f, jegan t, mohd saffari mh, charng jeng toh, ramesh k, ainul sj, anis nabillah ma, mohd syakir ma, sanmugarajah p, kamalanathan p, azmi mt, rahman j. (2022). somatic mitochondrial dna mutations in different grades of glioma. - personalized medicine. 25-39.
ramesh kumar, azizi abu bakar , jegan thanabalan , sanmugarajah paramasvaran,charng jeng toh, ainul jaffar, farizal fadzil, palaniandy kamalanathan, bee hong soon and narayanaswamy venketasubramanian. (2020). safety and use of mlc601/mlc901 (neuroaid) in primary intracerebral hemorrhage: a cohort study from the neuroaid safe treatment registry. - brain sciences. 1-8.
nor amelia mohd fauzi, norlinah mohamed ibrahim, shahizon azura mohamed mukari, thanabalan jegan, zariah abdul aziz. (2019). amelioration of dystonic opisthotonus in pantothenate kinase associated neurodegeneration syndrome with absent eye of the tiger sign following bilateral pallidal deep brain stimulation. - movement disorders clinical practice. 332-334.
chew kah teik; nurul iftida basri; abdul kadir abdul karim; muhammad azrai abu; mohd faizal ahmad; nur azurah abdul ghani; erica yee hing; rozman zakaria; jegan a/l thanabalan; azizi abu bakar; nor azlin mohamed ismail. (2019). management options and outcome of cerebral arteriovenous malformation in pregnancy: case series. - archives of iranian medicine. 340-343.
irma wati ngadimon, devi mohan, mohd farooq shaikh, ching soong khoo, hui jan tan, yu mey lee, nor syazwani chamhuri, farizal fadzil, nursyazwana zolkafli, alina arulsamy, jegan thanabalan, angel aledo-serrano, wing loong cheong. (2025). hmgb1 blood levels and neurological outcomes after traumatic brain injury: insights from an exploratory study. - epilepsia open. 494 - 507.
ngadimon, irma wati; mohan, devi; shaikh, mohd. farooq; khoo, ching soong; tan, hui jan; chamhuri, nor syazwani; cheong, wing loong; aledo-serrano, angel; yong, li ling; lee, yu mey; fadzil, farizal; thanabalan, jegan. (2024). incidence and predictors of posttraumatic epilepsy and cognitive impairment in patients with traumatic brain injury: a retrospective cohort study in malaysia. - epilepsia. 1962 - 1974.
johannes low jun wei, ammar akram kamarudin, bee hong soon, kamalanathan palaniandy, azizi abu bakar, jegan thanabalan, ramesh kumar athi kumar, ainul syahrilfazli jaafar, sanmugarajah paramasvaran, farizal fadzil, nadiah abu. (2024). profiling of autoantibodies in the sera of glioblastoma patients. - immunotherapy. 1049 - 1056.
indumathi ainer, salina husain, aneeza khairiyah wan hamizan, farah dayana zahedi, jegan thanabalan. (2023). olfactory and gustatory outcomes following endoscopic transsphenoidal hypophysectomy. - egyptian journal of otolaryngology. 1-8.
geng ju tuang, farah dayana zahedi, salina husain, aneeza khairiyah wan hamizan, thean yean kew, jegan thanabalan. (2023). volumetric evaluation of the sphenoid sinus among different races in the southeast asian (sea) population: a computerized tomography study. - international journal of medical sciences. 211-218.
suri mawarne kaidar, rizuana iqbal hussain, farah aqilah bohani, shahnorbanun sahran, nurnaima binti zainuddin, fuad ismail, jegan thanabalan, ganesh kalimuthu, and siti norul huda sheikh abdullah. (2013). brain tumor treatment advisory system. - communications in computer and information science (ccis) - soft computing applications and intelligent systems : 2nd international multi-conference on artificial intelligence technology (m-cait 2013). .
suri mawarne kaidar, rizuana iqbal hussain, farah aqilah bohani, shahnorbanun sahran, nurnaima binti zainuddin, fuad ismail, jegan thanabalan, ganesh kalimuthu, siti norul huda sheikh abdullah. (2013). brain tumor treatment advisory system. - . 78-88.
zhe kang law, jegan thanabalan, irene looi, zariah abdul aziz, hoo fan kee, ang chong lip. (2014). maklumat untuk pesakit dan saudara: asid traneksamik untuk strok pendarahan intraserebrum (tich2). - . 1-14.
ereena alfian, othmaliza othman, niki ho wai wye, mae-lynn catherine bastion, farizal fadzil, jegan thanabalan, marfuah nik eezamuddeen, fuad ismail, shahizon azura mohamed mukari, siti khadijah hamsan, ramesh kumar. (2025). gamma knife radiosurgery for ophthalmic lesions: a retrospective review. - malaysian ophthalmology scientific congress 2025. .
ereena alfian, niki ho wai wye, othmaliza othman, farizal fadzil, jegan thanabalan, marfuah nik eezamuddeen, fuad ismail, shahizon azura mohamed mukari, siti khadijah hamsan, ramesh kumar. (2025). eye on precision: a technical guide to gamma knife radiosurgery for ophthalmic lesions. - 9th asian leksell gamma knife society meeting 2025. .
siva baskra kanthan, yuh yang leong, marfuah eezamuddeen, fuad ismail, farizal fadzil, jegan thanabalan, siti khadijah hamsan, ramesh kumar. (2024). a case series: a dural av fistula with multiple comorbid patients treated with gamma knife stereotactic surgery (gkrs). - 24th agm & 22nd asm of neurosurgical association malaysia & sarawak neurosurgery update 2024. .
ereena alfian, farizal fadzil, jegan thanabalan, toh charng jeng, marfuah eezamuddeen, fuad ismail, shahizon azura mohamed mukari, siti khadijah hamsan, ramesh kumar. (2024). clinical outcomes of gamma knife radiosurgery in patients with symptomatic cavernous malformations: a single-centre study. - 24th agm & 22nd asm of neurosurgical association malaysia & sarawak neurosurgery update 2024. .
beehong soon, anis nabillah mohd azli, yuh yang leong, ainul syahrilfazli jaafar, charng jeng toh, farizal fadzil, jegan thanabalan, kamalanathan palaniandy, ramesh kumar, sanmugarajah paramasvaran, azizi abu bakar. (2022). an audit of ct craniometry of adult malaysian population and literature review of its implications in neurosurgery. - the 20th annual scientific meeting and the 22nd annual general meeting of neurosurgical association of malaysia (nam) & penang international neurosurgical congress. 34.
| Geran / Grant | Kolaborator / Collaborator | Status |
|---|---|---|
| TRANEXAMIC ACID FOR HYPERACUTE SPONTANEOUS INTRACEREBRAL HAEMORRHAGE (TICH-3) | university of nottingham, united kingdom | 44.3% (2022-06-27 sehingga 2029-10-26) |
| NEUROIMAGING CHARACTERISTICS FOR PROGNOSTICATION OF MALAYSIAN PATIENTS RECRUITED INTO THE TRANEXAMIC ACID FOR INTRACEREBRAL HAEMORRHAGE-3 TRIAL | university of nottingham, united kingdom | 32.7% (2023-10-01 sehingga 2029-10-26) |
| NEUROIMAGING CHARACTERISTICS FOR PROGNOSTICATION OF MALAYSIAN PATIENTS RECRUITED INTO THE TRANEXAMIC ACID FOR INTRACEREBRAL HAEMORRHAGE-3 TRIAL | university of nottingham, united kingdom | 32.7% (2023-10-01 sehingga 2029-10-26) |