Surapol Issaragrisil Explained

Surapol Issaragrisil
Native Name:	สุรพล อิสรไกรศีล
Honorific-Suffix:	MD, FRCP, FACP, FRCPA, FRCPath
Office:	Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Office2:	President of the Royal Society (Thailand)
Term Start2:	12 April 2019
Term End2:	11 April 2021
Predecessor2:	Sobha Chupikulchai Spielmann
Successor2:	Suraphon Wiroonrak
Office3:	President of the Royal Society (Thailand)
Term Start3:	12 April 2023
Term End3:	Present
Predecessor3:	Suraphon Wiroonrak
Birth Date:	18 July 1950
Birth Place:	Damnoen Saduak, Ratchaburi, Thailand
Nationality:	Thai
Spouse:	Rattana Issaragrisil
Children:	3
Alma Mater:	Mahidol University (MD)
Profession:	Medical Doctor Academic

Surapol Issaragrisil (Thai: สุรพล อิสรไกรศีล, ; born 18 July 1950) is medical doctor and professor of medicine at Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University. He is an expert at hematology, bone marrow transplantation, and blood stem cells transplantation.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Early life and education

Surapol was born in Damnoen Saduak District, Ratchaburi Province, Thailand. He studied his secondary education from Metreechunhawanvittayalai School at Bang Khonthi District, Samut Songkram Province, and then pursued his high school at Trium Udom Suksa school in Bangkok before having his bachelor's degree at medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital in 1974. Later, he continued to study in order to have his Certified Board at Internal Medicine in 1978, add his research fellow from Department of Clinical Physiology at University of Ulm in Germany in 1982, take his Certified Board at Hematology in 1984 and get his clinical fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, US, in 1985.^[4]

Position

• Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
• Director, Siriraj Center of Excellence for Stem Cell Research (SiSCR) ^[5]
• President of the Royal Society (Thailand)
• President of the Thai Society for Stem Cell Research
• Board Member, Union Académique Internationale
• Chief Faculty, BDMS Center of Excellence Hematology

Membership and fellowship

• Fellow, Royal College of Physicians (London), FRCP
• Fellow, American College of Physicians, FACP
• Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, FRCPA
• Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists (UK), FRCPath
• Member, American Society of Hematology
• Member, Thai Society of Hematology
• Member, Society for Experimental Hematology
• Member, American Association for Advancement of Science
• Member, International Society of Hematology
• Member, International Society for Hematotherapy and Graft Engineering
• Member, British Society of Hematology
• Member, Asian Conferences on Modern Therapy in Hematology
• Member, International Society for Stem Cell Research
• Member, Asia-Pacific Bone Marrow Transplantation Group

Decorations

• Knight Grand Cordon (Special Class) of the Order of the White Elephant (2000)
• Knight Grand Cordon (Special Class) of the Order of the Crown of Thailand (1997)
• Dushdi Mala Medal for Innovation in Medicine (2008)

Honors and awards

• Siriraj Outstanding Personnel Award 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2015
• Siriraj Award Honoring 2018
• A.G. ELLIS RESEARCH AWARD (Research award 2016) Pre-clinic 13 June 13, 2016
• Quality Person of the Year 2012 in Medicine, 2012
• Establishing the Annual Congress on Update in Breakthroughs in Hematology (AUBH), 2011
• National Outstanding Person in Science and Technology, 2011
• Dushdi Mala Medal for Innovation in Medicine, 2008
• Mahidol University Award for Outstanding Research, 2008
• Senior Research Scholar of Thailand Research Fund, 2005
• Organizing the Humboldt Kolleg, “The Role of Science to Improve Quality of Life in Postgenomic Era”, 2003
• President of Asia Pacific Bone Marrow Transplant Group, 2000
• Organizing the 6th Congress of Asia-Pacific Bone Marrow Transplantation, 2000
• The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Award for Outstanding Commitment and Dedication in Promoting Joint Research in US-Thailand Collaboration on Aplastic Anemia, 1998
• National Best Research Award from National Research Council, 1993, 1995
• Mahidol University-B-Braun Prize for Medical Research, 1993

References

1. https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84900453976&origin=inward&txGid=066a33726797c57a49fb918b75c60437 Scopus Review: Document details - Bortezomib enhances the osteogenic differentiation capacity of human mesenchymal stromal cells derived from bone marrow and placental tissues
2. https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84880435286&origin=inward&txGid=b781ddd99548181195e60de2d619fed3 Scopus Review: Document details - Pretransplant Immunosuppression followed by Reduced-Toxicity Conditioning and Stem Cell Transplantation in High-Risk Thalassemia: A Safe Approach to Disease Control
3. https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84884158376&origin=inward&txGid=314fa980d0149c5d4a1ec75bc330648b Scopus Review: Document details - Pluripotent gene expression in mesenchymal stem cells from human umbilical cord Wharton's jelly and their differentiation potential to neural-like cells
4. http://siscr.org/surapol-issaragrisil/ Surapol Issaragris from SISCR
5. https://www.si.mahidol.ac.th/th/research-academics/research/network_group/draft_2/stemcell.asp Siriraj Center of Excellence for Stem Cell Research