Brain and Spine Center

Specialty: Surgery

Dr. Thirasak Puenngarm

Special expertise: Neurosurgery

Experiences
1990 Specialist Registrar, Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Institute of Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand.
1993  Neurosurgeon, Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Institute of Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand. 
2002-Present: Chief of Phyathai Neurosurgical Center, Phyathai Group of Hospitals, Bangkok, Thailand; Chief of MINI Spine Center, Phyathai Group of Hospitals, Bangkok, Thailand
Consultant Neurosurgeon, Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Institute of Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand.

Education & Training
1979-1985 M.D., Mahidol University, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital

1992-1993 Fellowship in Microneurosurgery, Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Key Hole Surgery, Skull base Surgery, Endoscopic Surgery at University of Mainz, Germany (Scholarship by Germany Government)

1995 Short course of Skull base surgery at St. Louis USA
The 3rd Asian-Oceanian International Congress on Skull Base Surgery, Congress Banquet, Seoul, Korea
2nd Seminar of Neurosurgery Update for Yong Neurosurgeons in Asia, Sapporo, Japan

2007 Training course for Endoscopic Operations of The Lumbar Spine at St. Anna Hospital, Herne, Germany, 17th-19th April, 2007 Eurospine 2007, Brussels, Belgium, 2nd-6th October

2008 The 1st Triennial World Congress on Minimal Invasive Spine Surgery and Techniques, 3rd-7th June 2008, Hawaii, USA

2011 The 14th ASEAN Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the 9th ASEAN Neurosurgical Nursing Congress, 16th-19th February 2011, Sheraton Grande Laguna Phuket, Thailand.


Professional Membership
1994 The Neurosurgical Association of Thailand
1990 Medical Council


Experiences

- Pioneer in Neuronavigator in Thailand, since 2000
- Pioneer in Skull Base Surgery in Thailand, since 1993
- Pioneer in Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery in Thailand, since 1993
- Pioneer in Endoscopic Neurosurgery in Thailand, since 1993
- Experience for more than thousand cases of Key Hole Surgery, since 1993
- Pioneer in Minimally invasive spine Surgery, endoscopic spine surgery, since 2007