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Now (2026–2028): complete the M.S. in Health Care Analytics and Information Technology (MSHCA) at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College (August 2026 – May 2028), and secure a Summer 2027 health care analytics internship in the United States. On returning from academic leave, finish the Preventive Medicine (Travel Medicine) residency and board.

Next: return to Royal Thai Government service at the Department of Disease Control (DDC), as his scholarship requires, and apply analytics and health-informatics practice to national disease surveillance and immunisation data.

Long term: work on Thailand’s national vaccine registry. The aim is a vaccination record that answers three things wherever it is opened — what was given, which product and lot, and when — that is legible anywhere, verifiable, and available to the next clinician. More broadly: national-scale public health data, meaning interoperability, data governance, and frameworks that hold up, with systems designed around the people working at the point of care.

Clinical: travel medicine consultations, preventive vaccinology, and emerging infectious diseases.

Technical: public health informatics, clinical machine learning, geospatial disease mapping, and healthcare cybersecurity.

Vitchakorn has been a member of HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) since August 2026, as an organizational affiliate member sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University.

Vitchakorn is a Selected Member of the inaugural cohort of the BRIDGE Program (Building Resilient, Inclusive Dialogue for Governance & Engagement), run by Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College with the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), for 2026–2027. He is one of five Heinz College students selected, and the only first-year MSHCA student in the cohort.

This is not the BRIDGE-AI Summit 2026 in Bangkok, where his Altitude Itinerary Analyzer won a Silver Award. The two share an acronym and are unrelated: the BRIDGE Program is a leadership and dialogue program with no AI content.

The program is a yearlong, cohort-based co-curricular experience built on Heinz College’s Deliberative Discourse Initiative. It covers three areas — dialogue, bridge-building, and civic leadership — through faculty-led workshops on the foundations of civil discourse, mediation and conflict management, and facilitating dialogue, with guided reflection between sessions. In April 2027 the cohort will design and facilitate a student-led public dialogue event.

In his cohort introduction he wrote that through the program he hopes to build strong communication and facilitation skills to bring doctors, technologists, and policymakers together for better healthcare decisions.

An analysis of 32,084 outpatient visits (26,669 unique patients over 520 clinic days, March 2022 – August 2023) at a Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute acute respiratory infection clinic, to find what drove total service time.

• Median total service time was 87 minutes (mean 95).
• Arrival hour was the dominant bottleneck: about 121 minutes for 07:00 arrivals versus about 44 minutes at 14:00, with 58% of registrations before 10:00.
• Weekend and holiday visits ran 15–21 minutes slower.
• Methods: ANOVA, regression, and a Random Forest model in Python (pandas, SciPy, statsmodels, scikit-learn).

The analysis identified bottlenecks and recommended scheduling changes; it does not report a measured reduction in waiting time.

A standalone menstrual-cycle prediction web app, separate from the Hajj Menstrual Delay Planner. Built in plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and deployed on Netlify.

Photography (portrait, studio, landscape, film, infrared, and astrophotography, including developing and printing film; portfolio at photo.vitchakorn.com), trekking, scuba diving and freediving, astronomical observation, travel and solo backpacking, movies, and museums.

Diving certifications: PADI Rescue Diver, PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver, and PADI Freediver.

His first Tableau prototype: a geospatial practice dashboard of Thailand’s public childhood-immunization (EPI) coverage data, built in his own time while learning Tableau. It is an early personal prototype, not commissioned, deployed, or official Department of Disease Control work, and not one of his featured projects.