Dr. Tanawat Amphansap
Dr. Tanawat Amphansap is the chief of osteoporosis and geriatric excellence center, orthopedic department at Police General Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand. I am also the founder and leader of the Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) at Police General Hospital and the president of Fragility Fracture Network (FFN) in Thailand.
Dr.Tanawat obtained my doctor of medicine (MD) from Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University in 2004. I completed my fellowship in trauma surgery at Police General Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand (2011), in shoulder and elbow reconstruction at Charité Virchow Klinikum, Berlin (2012), and in hip reconstruction at Universitäts Klinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany (2012), as well as an AOTrauma Fellowship at Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, South Korea (2013). In 2019, I also attended a clinical fellowship program at the Academic Unit of Bone Metabolism Mellanby Centre for Bone Research at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Dr. Tanawat is a steering committee of numerous societies, including the FFN (AP) Regionalisation, the South East Asia Bone Academy (SEA-BA), the Asia Pacific Consortium on Osteoporosis (APCO), the Thailand Osteoporosis Foundation (TOPF), the Metabolic Bone and Orthogeriatric (MBOG) Section of the Royal College of Orthopedic Surgeons of Thailand (RCOST), and the FLS committee of Public Health in Thailand.
My research interests include epidemiology and prevention of fragility fracture, new innovation in knee osteoarthritis, public health aspects of calcium and vitamin D supplement, quality of life after fragility fracture, effectiveness of FLS and TBS innovation.
Timetable
Every Monday from 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Call 02-207-6000 ext. 10479 (contact to make an appointment during business hours only)
Every Sunday from 12.00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Call 02-734-0000
Every Wednesday and Thursday from 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. and Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Call 02-223-1351
My Education
Fellowship in Metabolic Bone disorder
Northern General Hospital, Sheffield university, UK
Fellowship in AO Trauma
Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, South Korea
Fellowship in Hip reconstruction
Carl Gustav Carus universitat, Dresden, Germany
Fellowship in Shoulder and elbow reconstruction
Charite' Virchow Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
Fellowship in Trauma Surgery
Police General Hospital, Thailand
Diploma of Thai Board of Orthopedic Surgery
Police General Hospital, Thailand
Diploma of Clinical Medicine in Surgery
Phramongkutklao College of Medicine, Thailand
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
Siriraj hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand
My Current Position
Chief of Police Osteoporosis and Geriatric Excellence Center of Orthopedic Surgery (POGEC)
Police General Hospital
Founder, Chief Coordinator and Leader for Fracture Liaison Service (PGH’s Liaison)
Police General Hospital
Secretary of Metabolic and Orthogeriatric section (MBOG)
The Royal College of Orthopaedic Surgeons of Thailand (RCOST)
Steering committee of Metabolic and Orthogeriatric section (MBOG)
The Royal College of Orthopaedic Surgeons of Thailand (RCOST)
Executive steering committee of Thailand Osteoporosis Foundation (TOPF)
President of FFN-Thailand
International level
Advisory board
of Asia-pacific Bone Academy (APBA)
Clinical expert cascade (CEC) Faculty
APBA
Committee
Asia Pacific Consortium on Osteoporosis (APCO)
Steering committee
SEA Bone Academy
Deputy
Asia-Pacific FFN