Election 2026 – The nominations Thailand
Kamonsak Reungjarearnrung
Kamonsak R. obtained his degree in pharmacy from Mahidol University, Bangkok, in 1991. He obtained his master’s degree in pharmacokinetics from Ghent University, Belgium. He had additional training on oncology pharmacy at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, in 1995 and obtained a master’s degree in healthcare management in 2008 from the European School of Management. He joined Bumrungrad International Hospital in 1994, and over his twenty-one-year tenure, he was steadily promoted and asked to take on additional responsibilities. He served as Bumrungrad’s Chief Quality Officer, Chief Administrative Officer, and Chief Operating Officer.
He moved to join BDMS Southern Group in 2015 as Chief Operating Officer and Assistant Chief Executive Officer, and he has joined Rangsit International Hospital to set up the new private hospital that is affiliated with Rangsit University since May 2022. Besides operation, his other areas of focus are quality management, strategic management, human resources management, and healthcare innovation focusing on smart hospitals to improve hospital efficiency, employee experience, and patient experience throughout the patient journey and clinical outcome. His major contributions to those organizations are the development of new medical services and the implementation of healthcare IT projects such as pharmacy automation, electronic clinical documentation, simulation training, patient portals, and telehealth, including remote patient monitoring.
Trai Tharnpanich
Trai Tharnpanich is currently a assistant professor at the department of pharmacy practice, Faculty of pharmaceutical sciences, Chulalongkorn university. He completed a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy at Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University. Then he trained in an oncology clinical pharmacy residency training program and received Board Certification in Pharmacotherapy in oncology from the college of pharmacotherapy of Thailand, The Pharmacy Council of Thailand.
Trai got a board-certified oncology pharmacist from the American pharmacists association. His responsibilities included teaching PharmD candidates and pharmacy residents. In addition, he has been doing hematology oncology pharmaceutical care at the hematology and bone marrow transplantation ward for 10 years. Trai also has served as an academic support committee of the Asia pacific oncology pharmacy association (Thailand)
He has expertise and research interests in pharmaceutical care in hematology and bone marrow transplantation patients, clinical pharmacokinetics, and artificial intelligence applications in pharmacy practices.
