The laboratory under the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University had been the first laboratory in Asia to achieve ISO 15189 in April 2004. Her last position at Chulalongkorn University was the Vice Dean of the College of Public Health and the Deputy Director of Chulalongkorn University Research Centre. She had been invited to join Laboratory Division, Bumrungrad International Hospital as a consultant in 2007 and was posted as the Director in 2012-2017. The Laboratory Division, Bumrungrad International Hospital has been the first private and clinical service laboratory in Thailand to achieve CAP in 2016. She has been invited to take the position of Quality Consultant at the National Blood Centre, Thai Red Cross, Bangkok, Thailand since 2018.
Soisuda Gajavasti
Soisuda is a Medical Scientist with 25 years’ experience in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital (KCMH).
At KCMH, she was assigned Group Leader for clinical hematology and clinical microscopy. She was also the Assistant Quality Management Representative for ISO 15189, Internal Auditor for ISO 15189, and Internal Surveyor for Hospital Accreditation and the Safety Committee. This allowed her to build up expertise on the quality management system of Laboratory Medicine.
She started working at Grand Pacific CRO as Laboratory Manager in the GlobalPlus Diagnostics Laboratory in 2019. She is responsible for ensuring that all SOPs are being followed in the laboratory, maintaining the efficiency and quality of operations, managing, and supporting all laboratory staff, and creating safe procedures for the disposal of all dangerous biological materials. Finally, she has also achieved ISO 15189 & 15190 accreditation for our Laboratory in 2020.
Dr Piboon Pornmanee
Piboon has earned a PhD in Biotechnology from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. He also received a collaborative scholarship to complete a PhD at Texas A&M University with funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH), USA.
After graduating, Piboon started work as a Lab Consultant at a private hospital in Bangkok before moving on to a pharmaceutical company where he was the Study Director for PK and BABE analysis. He later joined a Mass Spectrometer company as an Application Specialist for customer support throughout South East Asia, with particular focus on the bioanalytical field where he has over 10 years’ experience with biological sample analysis. Piboon has extensive expertise in pharmaceutical analysis using LC-MS/MS techniques and was even invited to be a special lecturer by a university and to collaborate on research with a PhD student on pharmaceutical research.
Sopida Srichaiwattana
Sopida is a Laboratory Analyst with 10 years’ experience in routine sample processing, and 5 years’ experience in LC-MSMS techniques. Her experience includes drug monitoring and measuring drug levels in human plasma for bioequivalence studies with fully validated methods under the US FDA and European Medicine Agency’s guidelines.
At Grand Pacific CRO, she is a Kit Building Project Manager for clinical studies and laboratory services. She oversees the kit building process, ensuring that each kit is suited to the project’s needs as well as the client’s requirements. Sopida has also achieved ISO15189 and ISO15190 accreditation to comply with all assigned tasks in GPCRO.
Siribha Apinan
Siribha Apinan, a Medical Technologist, joined Grand Pacific CRO in 2017 as a Senior Analyst. Since 2017, Siribha has worked within her team to conduct analysis for the quantitation of drug levels in biological fluids using liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LC/MS).
She has extensive experience in bioanalysis method development and validation of drugs using LC-MS/MS. These quantitation assay methods are ISO 15189 certified and fully validated in accordance with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency guidelines. More recently, she has started as a Quality Assurance Officer.
Her role includes assisting with team with the preparation and implementation of quality assurance policies and procedures. She works closely with communication staff throughout GPCRO to ensure that all company activities will operate as per the expectations and requirements.
Phatareeya Laochinchat
Phatareeya Laochinchat is a Quality Control Officer and the Safety Officer at GPCRO. She has a background as a Medical Technologist working on molecular techniques associated with genetic diseases and safety diagnostics. She started working at GPCRO in 2017 to perform bioanalysis and continued work as a Quality Control Officer. She supports the quality team in conducting field laboratory activities, ensuring quality control services, and managing specimen logistics and archiving.
She has also started working as a Laboratory Safety Officer contributing to the improvement of the workplace, including laboratory processes and methods, laboratory safety, and maintaining the working environment in accordance with ISO 15190.
Kritsanai Yingyuen
Mr. Kritsanai Yingyuen is currently a Laboratory Supervisor at GlobalPlus Diagnostics Laboratory at Bangkok, Thailand. He is a Medical Research Technologist with expertise in clinical research for tropical medicine and infectious disease, regenerative medicine, and oncology.
His interest in clinical research developed over the years since working in clinical research for tropical medicine and infectious disease, specifically malaria, at an international NGO. He decided that he wanted to pursue a career as a Medical Research Technologist as he believes that further research and discoveries in the field could make a difference in the lives of many.
Mr. Yingyuen worked at the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences as Senior Medical Research Technologist for more than 10 years before being appointed to his current post as Laboratory Supervisor at GlobalPlus Diagnostics Laboratory. During this time, he developed numerous experimental and successful research-based approaches to tropical disease.
Mr. Yingyuen worked with a multi-disciplinary team of scientists and clinicians to develop a new drug susceptibility assay for malaria research. During this time he built up his research and publication profile, both nationally and internationally. He also delivered substantial contributions in leadership, teaching and management.