Professor Rungroj Krittayaphong

Professor Rungroj Krittayaphong

Siriraj Hospital of Mahidol University, Bangkok (Thailand)

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Rungroj Krittayaphong, MD, FESC, FACC is a professor of medicine and Head of the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. Professor Rungroj received his medical degree from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand in 1987 and subsequently completed cardiology training at Siriraj Hospital. He joined visiting cardiology fellowship at the University of North Carolina, USA from 1993 to 1995, and in cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Southern California, USA in 1996. Professor Rungroj’s research interests include cardiac MRI, atrial fibrillation, ventricular arrhythmia, radiofrequency ablation and heart rate variability. He is currently the President of the Heart Association of Thailand and President Elect of the ASEAN Federation of Cardiology. He has authored more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals including JACC, European Heart Journal and Circulation.