In Thailand and the US

WORK EXPERIENCE AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION/CERTIFICATIONS

Appointment history

• Lecturer and Faculty Member, Bacteriology Division, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (2006 – 2007)

  • Gave lectures on medical microbiology and supervised microbiology laboratory sessions for third year medical students

• Graduate student, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine (2007 – 2013)

• Therapeutic Microbiology Fellow/Postdoctoral Associate, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital (2013 – 2014)

  • Metagenomic Medicine Service. Texas Children's Microbiome Center

    • Co-ordinate the Fecal Microbiome Transplantation project for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-induced colitis and inflammatory bowel disease in pediatric patients

  • Universal Perinatal Database and Biospecimen Repository (PeriBank)

    • Oversee general operation of Peribank and manage request from collaborating researcher for specimens in the repository

• Clinical microbiology fellow, UCLA Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA (2014 – 2016)

• Clinical instructor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA (2016 – 2018)

  • Teaching responsibilities for clinical microbiology fellows, pathology residents, and infectious diseases fellows

  • Acting technical director for virology/molecular testing

  • Clinical consultation for physicians and laboratorians

  • Molecular assay development for clinical and research use

  • Use of next-generation sequencing for bacterial genomics studies and epidemiological investigations of potential outbreaks

• Public Health Laboratories Assistant Director, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

Teaching/Mentoring Experience

• Lecturer (basic medical microbiology), Bacteriology Division, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (2006 – 2007)

• Committee member for Medical School Direct Admission Examination, Consortium of Thai Medical Schools (2007)

• Assisted Dr. Omai Garner with a microbiology laboratory session for second year UCLA Medical Students (2014)

• Assisted Dr. Garner in providing basic clinical microbiology education for African-American HIV University Laboratory Visit (2014)

• Weekly clinical case rounds for pediatric infectious disease team (attendings, fellows, and residents at Ronald Reagan Hospital) (2014-2015)

• Weekly plate rounds for clinical microbiology fellows, pathology residents, and infectious diseases fellows (2016 – present)

• Lectures in Bacteriology, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing, Virology, and Molecular Microbiology for medical students, pathology residents, and infectious diseases fellows (2016 – present)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, The Thai Medical Council (2007 – present)

• Event Executive, International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics Students and Fellows Association (ISAPP-SFA) (2010 – 2013)

• Member, American Society for Microbiology (2010 – present)

• Member, Southern California Branch, American Society for Microbiology (2014 – present)

• American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) (2015 – present)

• Contributor, Document Development Committee on Specimen Handling for Molecular Methods (MM13), Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (2016 – present)

• Member, Document Development Committee on Molecular Methods for Genotyping and Strain Typing of Infectious Organisms (MM24), Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (2017 – present)

Professional Certifications

• Thai Medical License (2007 – present)

• Medical Technologist in Microbiology M(ASCP)CM (2015 – present)

• Clinical Microbiology Scientist (CLS, California) (2016 – present)

• Public Health Microbiologist (PHM, California) (2015 – present)

• American Board of Medical Microbiology (ABMM) Diplomate (2016 – present)