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M.Sc. Pergigian (Odontologi Forensik) pada tahun Dentistry (Forensic Odontology) in 1992. He was
1992. Beliau dianugerahkan biasiswa berprestij awarded the prestigious University of Adelaide
Adelaide Scholarship for Postgraduate Research Scholarship for Postgraduate Research, which
yang membolehkan beliau menamatkan pengajian enabled him to complete his studies successfully.
dengan jayanya. Seterusnya, beliau mendalami Subsequently, he further specialized in oral and
bidang radiologi oral dan maksilofasial, dan maxillofacial radiology, earning his Magister
memperoleh Magister Scientiae Dentium (MSc Scientiae Dentium (MSc Dent) and Postgraduate
Dent) serta Diploma Pascasiswazah daripada Diploma from the University of the Western Cape
University of the Western Cape dan Stellenbosch and Stellenbosch University respectively in 2000.
University pada tahun 2000. Sebagai pengiktirafan In recognition of his outstanding contributions
terhadap sumbangan beliau yang luar biasa dalam to forensic odontology, he was conferred the
odontologi forensik, beliau telah dikurniakan Founding Fellowship in Forensic Odontology by the
Founding Fellowship in Forensic Odontology oleh Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA)
Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia in 2012, a landmark recognition for a Malaysian in
(RCPA) pada tahun 2012, satu pengiktirafan forensic dental expertise.
bersejarah bagi rakyat Malaysia dalam bidang With more than four decades of professional
kepakaran pergigian forensik.
service, Professor Phrabhakaran has exemplified
Dengan pengalaman profesional selama lebih academic leadership, professional excellence,
daripada empat dekad, Profesor Phrabhakaran and societal commitment. He began his academic
telah menjadi contoh utama kepimpinan career at the Universiti Malaya in 1992, where
akademik, kepakaran profesional, dan komitmen he rose to the rank of Professor, serving with
kemasyarakatan. Beliau memulakan kerjaya distinction in teaching, supervising research
akademiknya di Universiti Malaya pada tahun 1992, across undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral
di mana beliau kemudiannya dinaikkan ke pangkat levels, thereby nurturing the next generation of
Profesor dan menunjukkan kecemerlangan dalam dental professionals who now serve as academics
pengajaran, penyeliaan penyelidikan di peringkat and specialists both locally and abroad.
ijazah pertama, sarjana dan kedoktoran, serta In his capacity as a forensic odontologist,
memupuk profesional pergigian generasi baharu Professor Phrabhakaran has rendered invaluable
yang kini berkhidmat sebagai ahli akademik dan national and international service in Disaster
pakar di dalam dan luar negara.
Victim Identification (DVI) operations. His expertise
Sebagai seorang pakar odontologi forensik, was crucial during several major incidents,
Profesor Phrabhakaran telah menyumbangkan including the Highland Towers collapse, the
perkhidmatannya yang amat bernilai kepada Malaysian Airlines plane crash in Tawau, the Wang
negara dan masyarakat antarabangsa dalam Kelian mass grave investigations, and the Malaysia
operasi Pengenalpastian Mangsa Bencana Airlines MH17 aviation disaster. He was also invited
(DVI). Kepakaran beliau amat penting dalam as a forensic specialist by the Ministry of Defence
pengendalian beberapa insiden besar, termasuk Malaysia for the identification and repatriation
keruntuhan Highland Towers, nahas pesawat of Australian and New Zealand servicemen who
Malaysia Airlines di Tawau, siasatan kubur besar were buried in Malaysia. His active involvement in
Wang Kelian, serta tragedi penerbangan MH17. these operations, along with his broad expertise
Beliau juga pernah dijemput oleh Kementerian in forensic dental age estimations and bite mark
Pertahanan Malaysia sebagai pakar forensik analyses, reflects his unwavering commitment
untuk membantu proses pengecaman dan to humanitarian service and the advancement of
pemulangan jenazah anggota tentera Australia justice through the application of dental science.
dan New Zealand yang dikebumikan di Malaysia.
Penglibatan aktif beliau dalam operasi-operasi
ini, serta kepakaran luas dalam anggaran umur
pergigian forensik dan analisis kesan gigitan,
mencerminkan komitmen teguh beliau terhadap
khidmat kemanusiaan dan usaha menegakkan
keadilan melalui pengaplikasian sains pergigian.

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