Physician · Health care analytics

Vitchakorn(Blue) Poonyakanok

Vitchakorn Poonyakanok

A physician studying health care analytics at Carnegie Mellon. I build tools for travel medicine and public health.

Seeking a Summer 2027 internshipHealth care analytics · USA · May 11 – Aug 20 · 300+ hours
Internship brief (PDF)
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About

I want to make vaccination records easier to trust and use across clinics and borders.

Vitchakorn Poonyakanok presenting at BRIDGE-AI Summit 2026

A record should make clear what was given, which product and lot, and when. My experience in travel clinics and outbreak response has shaped my interest in a national vaccine registry, with reliable data exchange and clear governance.

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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
On academic leave from Aug 2026; residency resumes on return.
2024 — 2026
Pattayarak Health UnitMinistry of Public Health
Medical Officer, Professional Level — Preventive & Travel Medicine
Office of Disease Prevention and Control 6 (ODPC 6), DDC, MOPH
Travel consultations and vaccination; site physician for WHO EGASP surveillance; worked with ICD-10-coded records in outbreak investigations and surveillance evaluation.
2022 — 2024
Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases InstituteMinistry of Public Health
General Practitioner
Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute
Led outpatient and ARI clinics; analysed 32,084 visits in Python to identify scheduling bottlenecks.
Earlier clinical roles
2020 — 2022
Si Songkhram HospitalMinistry of Public Health
Medical Officer, Practitioner Level
Si Songkhram Hospital
2019 — 2020
Nong Khai HospitalMinistry of Public Health
Medical Officer, Practitioner Level
Nong Khai Hospital

Across these posts: clinical user of BMS HOSxP and EMR Soft records; as an analyst, ETL of hospital (HIS), MOPH 43-file and DDC surveillance data.

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
Master of Science in Digital and AI Technologies in Health Systems (DigiHealth)
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)
Earlier education
2010 — 2013
Triam Udom Suksa School
High School
Triam Udom Suksa School
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Projects

All 13 projects
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Research & Awards

Awards
BRIDGE-AI Summit 2026 · Jul 2026

Silver Award, Medical AI

2nd of 15 teams · Track B (Advanced Innovator)
Digital Health Innovation Competition, Chulalongkorn Faculty of Medicine with Weill Cornell Medicine. For the AI-assisted altitude extraction behind altit.app.
View certificate
Publications
Journal of Tropical Medicine (Wiley) · Aug 2025

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.
Read paper
Weekly Epidemiological Surveillance Report · Sep 2024

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.
Read paper
Other Research
Surveillance evaluation · Jan — Jun 2025 · ODPC 6, DDC

Evaluation of the Syphilis Surveillance System, ODPC 6, Pattaya, Chon Buri, Thailand

Co-investigator and quantitative-methods lead. Assessed the national Digital Disease Surveillance (DDS) platform's sensitivity, predictive value positive, timeliness and representativeness against the CDC surveillance-evaluation framework, and built the evaluation's data ETL pipeline for its ICD-10-coded records. Recommended a sustainable ETL pipeline for routine surveillance, which led the director to switch software.
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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. Selected results are listed below.
View competition results
  • 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, supporting my work in clinical data analysis.
View clinical methods courses
Full training record
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Capabilities

All credentials

Core tools: Python, R, SQL and Stata.

Explore tools and technologies
Core
PythonRSQLStataPandasNumPy
ML & AI
PyTorchTensorFlowScikit-LearnXGBoostLightGBMYOLOOpenCV
LLM APIs
GPTClaudeGeminiGLMGrokQwenThaiLLMTyphoonTHaLLE
Visualization
TableauPower BIMatplotlibSeabornLookerQGIS
Cloud & Security
Google CloudFirebaseHuawei CloudISC2 CCGit
Computing
LANTA HPCLinuxAnacondaJupyterArduinovLLM
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 anywhere in the United States. Recruiters: see the quick reference.

[email protected]