Sarana Boonbaichaiyapruck

Chairman at National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC)

Speaker

Dr.Sarana Boonbaichaiyapruck currently serves as the chairman of National Broadcasting & Telecommunications Commissioner of Thailand. He has a strong background as a cardiologist in Academic Medicine. His most recent post was the deputy dean at Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University. Sarana was born and raised in Bangkok. He got his medical degree from Chulalongkorn University. After medical school he enrolled in the Residency Training Internal Medicine Clinic at LA county/USC & a Fellowship in Cardiology at Kaiser Parmanente Hospital, both of which were in Los Angles got additional years of training in interventional cardiology at the Hospital the Good Samaritan, Los Angeles. He returned to Thailand in 1993 and has established a cardiac intervention service at Ramathibodi Hospital where he worked until April 2022. He has a passion in teaching medicine and challenging young physicians, from students to fellows, is part of his art. He worked his way up in Academia and proudly received Clinical Professorship in 2018. Apart from medicine and cardiology he was selected to enact new and revise old laws at the National legislative Assembly. Because of his experience in Science, Legislation and in consumer protection such as medical device suitability and his study work on hospital expenses the selection committee picked him to be NBTC commissioner and later received the royal endorsement to be NBTC Chairman.