Ko Chung Sen

Ko Chung Sen
许崇信
Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat
2013–2018Democratic Action Party
Faction represented in Perak State Legislative Assembly
2018–2022Pakatan Harapan
Personal details
Born
Ko Chung Sen

(1968-06-19) 19 June 1968 (age 56)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
CitizenshipMalaysian
Political partyDemocratic Action Party (DAP)
Other political
affiliations
Pakatan Harapan (PH)
Pakatan Rakyat (PR)
Alma materTrinity College
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionSurgeon
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese许崇信
Traditional Chinese許崇信
Hanyu PinyinXǔ Chóngxìn
Hokkien POJKhó͘ Chôngsìn

Dr. Ko Chung Sen (Chinese: 許崇信; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Khó͘ Chông-sìn; born 1968) is a Malaysian surgeon and politician of Chinese descent.[1] He was the Perak State Legislative Assemblyman for Kepayang from 2018 to 2022. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. A surgeon by profession, he received BAO cum laude from Trinity College in Dublin. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1999.[citation needed]

Ko returned to Malaysia to work as a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon in Penang General Hospital in 2001 and worked there until 2004. He then moved to Ipoh to work in KPJ Specialist Hospital and has been there since then.[2]

He was elected to the parliament for Kampar constituency in the 2013 election. As candidate of the DAP, he defeated Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) incumbent Lee Chee Leong.[3] In the 2018 election, was picked as candidate for Perak state seat of Kepayang which he had won and got to be its state assemblyman.

  1. ^ "MyMP Ko Chung Sen". MyMP. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Search Doctor". KPJ Ipoh Specialist Hospital. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  3. ^ Tan, T.K. (3 June 2014). "For my kids' future". The Rocket. Retrieved 1 March 2016.