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Clinical Data, Engineered.

Vitchakorn “Blue” Poonyakanok, MD — a physician bridging travel medicine into intelligent health systems.

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About

I am a PHYSICIAN & CLINICAL DATA ANALYST pursuing an M.S. in Health Care Analytics & IT at Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College, on a Royal Thai Government (DDC) scholarship.

A vaccination record should answer three things wherever it is opened: what was given, which product and lot, and when. Making that reliably true — legible anywhere, verifiable, available to the next clinician — is the problem I want to work on.

I come at it from a travel clinic, where that record is also a document a border may ask for, and from outbreak investigation teams, where it sets how fast a response can move. A health system works when it is designed around the people using it at the point of care, and when its parts can talk to each other.

So far that has meant a guardrailed surveillance assistant for the DDC and clinical decision support for altitude risk. What I want to build toward is a national vaccine registry — interoperability, governance, and frameworks that hold up.

Looking for a Summer 2027 internship in health care analytics.

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Experience

Clinical & Research
2024 — 2026
Institute of Preventive MedicineMinistry of Public Health
Travel Medicine Resident
Institute of Preventive Medicine, DDC, MOPH
Preventive medicine, travel risk assessment, vaccinology, and health security. On academic leave from Aug 2026; residency resumes on return.
2024 — 2026
Pattayarak Health UnitMinistry of Public Health
Medical Physician, Professional Level — Preventive & Travel Medicine
Office of Disease Prevention and Control 6 (ODPC 6), DDC, MOPH
Pre-travel consultations, vaccination and certification, and travel health risk analysis; site physician for the WHO Enhanced Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (EGASP).
2022 — 2024
Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases InstituteMinistry of Public Health
General Practitioner
Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute
Led outpatient and ARI clinic services through COVID-19 and mpox responses; analysed 32,084 ARI visits in Python to locate scheduling bottlenecks.
2020 — 2022
Si Songkhram HospitalMinistry of Public Health
General Practitioner (Intern)
Si Songkhram Hospital
2019 — 2020
Nong Khai HospitalMinistry of Public Health
General Practitioner (Intern)
Nong Khai Hospital
Education
AUG 2026 — MAY 2028
Carnegie Mellon UniversityHeinz College
M.S. Health Care Analytics & IT (MSHCA)CURRENT
Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College
Royal Thai Government (DDC) scholarship. Health system analytics, data governance, and information systems.
2025 — 2026
Chulalongkorn UniversityDigiHealth
M.S. Digital & AI Technologies in Health Systems
Chulalongkorn University (DigiHealth)
Independent study: AI-assisted altitude extraction from travel itineraries — the work behind altit.app.
2013 — 2019
Ramathibodi Hospital
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
Mahidol University (Ramathibodi Hospital)
2010 — 2013
Triam Udom Suksa School
High School
Triam Udom Suksa School
P.01 — PUBLIC HEALTH LLM
DDS Chatbot — Thai disease-surveillance assistant
DDS Chatbot
Guardrailed Thai disease-surveillance assistant for DDC — tool-calling over a PII-free data mart. A 753-turn authorized red-team cut attack success from ~25% to ~1% in-session; 99.8% pass on a 3,819-run regression benchmark.
P.02 — CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT
Altitude Itinerary Analyzer
Altitude Analyzer
AI itinerary extraction and high-altitude risk assessment for travel medicine clinics. 84.9% altitude accuracy within ±100 m on text itineraries; 2nd Place, BRIDGE-AI Summit 2026.
P.03 — CLINICAL DASHBOARD
Yellow fever and malaria prevention dashboard
YF & Malaria Map
Country-clickable CDC Yellow Book guidance with multi-country trip planning.
P.04 — HEALTH DATA TOOL
Thai HospSearch facility-code navigator
Thai HospSearch
Facility-code navigator over ~174K MOPH-coded records across Thailand's 13 health regions, 77 provinces and 7,436 subdistricts — client-side SQLite, no backend.
P.05 — EPIDEMIOLOGY VIZ
PM2.5 and mental health Tableau story
PM2.5 × Mental Health
Interrupted time-series analysis of air pollution and psychiatric hospital visits.
P.06 — MACHINE LEARNING
Cirrhosis survival prediction notebook
Cirrhosis Survival
Multi-class ensemble prediction (XGBoost/LightGBM) with engineered clinical features.
P.07 — CLINICAL PLANNING TOOL
Hajj menstrual delay planner calendar view
Hajj Menstrual Delay Planner
Counseling tool overlaying predicted cycles, Hajj ritual days and medication lead time on one Hijri/Gregorian calendar — entirely client-side, no health data leaves the browser.
P.08 — LEGAL REFERENCE
Communicable Disease Act B.E. 2558 interactive reader
CDA 2558 App
Searchable reader for Thailand's Communicable Disease Act B.E. 2558, with Thai and Arabic numerals interchangeable so a section reference resolves either way. Unofficial, educational.
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Research & Awards

Awards
Publications
001 · Journal of Tropical Medicine (Wiley) · Aug 2025 · DOI 10.1155/jotm/9974081 ↗
An Investigation of MMR-Related Mumps Cluster Following Immunization Among Practical Nursing Students, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024
Lertsakulbunlue S, Srithammavong D, Tepsittha K, Kanjanasombut H, Poonyakanok V, et al.
002 · Weekly Epidemiological Surveillance Report · Sep 2024 · DOI 10.59096/wesr.v55i9.3248 ↗
Preliminary investigation and rapid response to methanol intoxication outbreak linked to illegal herbal liquor in Bangkok, August 2024
Jitpeera C, Rongdech W, Raruenroeng K, Poonyakanok V, et al.
003 · SURVEILLANCE EVALUATION · JAN — JUN 2025 · ODPC 6, DDC
Evaluation of the Syphilis Surveillance System, ODPC 6, Pattaya, Chon Buri, Thailand
Co-investigator. Assessed the national Digital Disease Surveillance (DDS) platform's sensitivity, predictive value positive, timeliness and representativeness against the CDC surveillance-evaluation framework, and recommended improvements.
004 · MANUSCRIPT IN PREPARATION · TARGET: OSIR
An Investigation of Mumps Outbreak in a Secondary School, Saraburi Province, Thailand, August – September 2025
Prasongsil T, Saowong W, Poonyakanok V, et al.
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Training

Artificial Intelligence Association of ThailandSuper AI Engineer Season 6
Super AI Engineer S6
ADVANCED AI LEVEL 2 · SELECTED 157 / 10,457
AIAT’s national applied-AI program (Apr — Jun 2026). AI Practitioner credential, plus competition finishes across on-site and online tracks — the strongest below.
  • Coffee Chain Demand Forecasting — private Kaggle rank #1, 2nd runner-up overall of 30 teams
  • Parasite Eggs Object Detection — 16th of 166; SAHI + YOLOv8 with a DINOv2 classification head
  • Edge-AI Intelligent Transport System — co-honorable mention; YOLO/ONNX on Jetson Nano
  • WellSense AIoT Product Hackathon — Academic Popular Vote; IMU + TinyML + BLE wearable
Department of Disease ControlChiang Mai University
Clinical Methods
EPIDEMIOLOGY & BIOSTATISTICS · 2022 — 2026
Field epidemiology with DDC/MOPH and formal statistics training at Chiang Mai University — the statistical backbone under the analytics work.
  • Diploma in Clinical Statistics — Chiang Mai University, Feb — May 2022
  • Diploma in Clinical Epidemiology — Chiang Mai University, Sep — Dec 2022
  • Introductory Course in Epidemiology & Biostatistics — DDC, MOPH, Jun — Jul 2024
  • Biomedical Researchers (CITI Program) — Jan 2025 — Jan 2029
  • Research Integrity — NRCT × NSTDA × Naresuan University, Apr 2026 — Apr 2029
FULL TRAINING RECORD ↗
Core
PythonRSQLStataPandasNumPy
ML & AI
PyTorchTensorFlowScikit-LearnXGBoostLightGBMYOLOOpenCV
LLM APIs
GPTClaudeGeminiGLMGrokThaiLLM
Visualization
TableauPower BIMatplotlibSeabornLookerQGIS
Cloud & Security
Google CloudFirebaseHuawei CloudISC2 CCGit
Computing
LANTA HPCLinuxAnacondaJupyterArduino
Languages
Thai — NativeTOEFL iBT — 91/120Duolingo English Test — 120/160
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Contact

Open to collaborations in health data initiatives, medical informatics, travel medicine, and public health research.

Based in Pittsburgh, PA. Actively seeking a Summer 2027 health care analytics internship in the United States — open to any state.

[email protected]