Dr. Rafiz graduated from University College Cork, Ireland in 2005 with subsequent training in West Ireland from 2005 – 2008. He joined the fledging Faculty of Medicine in Universiti Teknologi MARA in 2008 and subsequently completed postgraduate Doctor of Internal Medicine from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 2013. He embarked on gastroenterology training also at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia under the tutelage of Prof Dr Raja Affendi Raja Ali and Assoc Prof Dr Ngiu Chai Soon. He completed a stint in Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan under Dr Hideyuki Konishi and Dr Naohisa Yoshida in 2016, exploring the fundamentals of early cancer screening utilising image enhanced endoscopy and the intricacies of performing endoscopic submucosal dissection. He is a member of several gastroenterology societies and was the recipient of the prestigious Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSGE) Research Fellowship Award in 2016. His main interest is in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and in Colorectal Cancer with several publications in local and international journal to date. He had also presented at both local and international scientific meeting and had been a speaker at several local events. Apart from Gastroenterology, Dr Rafiz also actively participates in the post- graduate training of general internal medicine.