Work Experience

July 1984 – October 1994   
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University. Bangkok, Thailand

November 1994 – October 1996
Staff surgeon, Man ARH Hospital, Man, West Virginia, USA

November 1996 – May 2007        
Private practice in general & bariatric surgery, Houston, Texas, USA

June 2007 - Present
Senior Staff, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University. Bangkok, Thailand

Education

June 1973 – April 1977
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University. Bangkok, Thailand

April 1977 – March 1979
Staff surgeon, ManARHHospital,Man,WestVirginia, USA

October 1990 – June 1993
Private practice in general & bariatric surgery, Houston, Texas, USA

Training

March 1979 – April 1980
Internship
Bhumibhol-adulyadej Hospital

July 1980 – June 1981
Surgery Internship PG1
Brooklyn-Cumberland Med Center, Brooklyn, NY

July 1981 – June 1985
Surgery Resident PG2-5
St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

Medical License

Thai Medical Council
April 10, 1980  (No. 9101)

Maryland State Board of Medicine
August 21, 1981  (No. D26921)

New Jersey State Board of Medicine
August 29, 1983  (No. 42090)

West Virginia Board of Medicine
July 11, 1994  (No. 17835)

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
December 18, 1995 (No. MD-057782-L)

Texas State Board of Medical Examiners
June 22,1996 (K0205)

Certification

ECFMG
September 19, 1980  (No. 309-222-8)

VQE
November 2, 1979  (No. 309-222-8)

FLEX
August 13, 1981  (No. 560-104-001)

Thai Board of Surgery
April 13, 1986

American Board of Surgery
June 6, 1988  (No. 33387)

Professional Affiliations

The Royal College of General Surgeons of Thailand
July 24, 1986

International College of Surgeons
May 5, 1990

Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
November, 1997

American Society of Bariatric Surgery
February 25, 1999

American College of Surgeons
October 14, 1999 - ID No.304-8331

Appointment

Chairman, Department of Surgery
Cypress-Fairbanks Medical Center
2003-2005

Director
Cypress-Fairbanks Bariatric Surgery Center
2004-2006

Scholarship and Award

Herbert A. Schulte Award
1984

Royal King Scholarship
1990 - 1993

American Society of Bariatric Surgery - Center of Excellence Award
2006 - 2008

Bibliography

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Sriwatanawongsa V, Davies HffS, Calne RY. The essential roles of parenchymal tissues and passenger leukocytes in the tolerance induced by liver grafting in rats. Nat Med 1995, 1 (5):428-432.

Sriwatanawongsa V, Davies HffS, Calne RY. Successful retransplantation of rat liver grafts. Transplantation 1995, 59 (6):908-910.

Sriwatanawongsa V. Hepatic Dysfunction in Multiple Organ Failure. In: Waitayangkoor N et al, ed. Current advances in surgery. Bangkok: Bangkok Medical Publisher. 1994. pp.254-264.

Höckerstedt K, Mäkisalo H, Sriwatanawongsa V, et al. Inhibition of alcohol drinking in inherent high-drinker rats receiving donor livers with deficient acetaldehyde metabolism. Presented at the XVth World Congress of the Transplantation Society, Kyoto, 1994.

Calne RY, Watson CJE, Brons IGM, Mäkisalo H, Metcalfe SM, Sriwatanawongsa V, et al. Tolerance of porcine renal allografts induced by donor spleen cells and seven days treatment with cyclosporine. Transplantation 1994, 57 (10):1433-1435.

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