Speaker Details
Voraporn Chaikitmongkol
Thailand
Dr. Voraporn Chaikitmongkol received her medical degree in 2005 and ophthalmology degree in 2010 from Chiang Mai University, Thailand. Following her clinical vitreo-retinal fellowship training in 2011, she joined the faculty at the Department of Ophthalmology, Chiang Mai University. In 2012, Dr. Chaikitmongkol did her post-doctoral clinical research fellowship at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (USA); medical retina training with Professor Neil M. Bressler and Professor Susan B. Bressler (2012-2014), and visual neurophysiology training with Professor Hendrik P.N. Scholl (2013-2014). Her research interest involves polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy, age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and novel retinal imaging modalities.
Dr. Chaikitmongkol has received the Japanese Ophthalmological Society International Young Investigator Award 2019 for her research titled “Color Fundus Photography, OCT, and Fluorescein Angiography in Diagnosing Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy (Am J Ophthalmol 2018). Dr. Chaikitmongkol is an author of 62 international peer-reviewed papers, and a co-author of several book chapters including the AMD chapters of the most recent editions of Ryan’s Retina Textbook (7th edition) and the Albert and Jakobiec’s Principles and Practices of Ophthalmology (4th edition). Dr. Chaikitmongkol is currently an Associate Professor, and Program Director of Ophthalmology residency training at Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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