A Short Biography:
Soon after his graduation in medicine in 1995, Dr Vonthanak was recruited to National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STDs (NCHADS ) in Cambodia, where he took on responsibility for the HIV surveillance program that achieved recognition as one of the most comprehensive in the Asian Region. Dr Vonthanak then went to study epidemiology at UCLA in 1999, and returned in 2003 as the first Cambodian to graduate with a PhD in this discipline. He was named as Head of the Research Unit at NCHADS. In early 2004, he was appointed as Vice-Director to the Cambodian National Institute for Public Health (NIPH). Since then, he has been co-principal investigators of several national scale surveys, clinical trials and epidemiological studies. From 2007 to 2011, he was the founding head of school of public health at NIPH, which is the first ever-government run school of public health in Cambodia. Since July 2011, he is appointed as vice-rector to the University of Health Sciences in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Publications:
A selected list of publications:
Acuin J, Firestone R, Htay TT, Khor GL, Thabrany H, Saphonn V, Wibulpolprasert S.
Southeast Asia: An Emerging Focus for Global Health,
The Lancet,
2011; 377(9765):
534-535.
Hansudewechakul R, Sirisanthana V, Kurniati N, Puthanakit T, Lumbiganon P, Saphonn V, Yusoff NK, Kumarasamy N, Fong SM, Nallusamy R, Srasuebkul P, Law M, Sohn AH, Chokephaibulkit K; TREAT Asia Pediatric HIV Observational Database
Antiretroviral Therapy Outcomes of HIV-Infected Children in the TREAT Asia Pediatric HIV Observational Database,
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr,
2010; 55(4):
503-9.
Oliver BG, Elliott JH, Price P, Phillips M, Saphonn V, Vun MC, Kaldor JM, Cooper DA, French MA
Mediators of Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses Differentially Affect Immune Restoration Disease Associated with Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in HIV Patients Beginning Antiretroviral Therapy,
J Infect Dis,
2010; 202(11):
1728-37.
