Tavitiya Sudjaritruk is a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand. After the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program, she was awarded the Ananda Mahidol Scholarship under the Royal Patronage of His Majesty the King of Thailand to pursue the graduate study aboard at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, United States of America. She completed her master and doctoral degrees in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2013 and 2016, respectively.
As a physician-researcher with broad-based training in pediatrics, infectious diseases, epidemiology and public health, she has focused her research areas of interest on HIV/AIDS among pediatrics and adolescents living in resource-limited countries. She has involved as a lead investigator as well as a co-investigator in many multicenter clinical research studies, and has several publications regarding long-term, non-infectious complications (e.g., bone demineralization, non-hepatitis liver diseases, cardiovascular diseases, nephropathy, and mental health disorders), common HIV opportunistic infections (e.g., tuberculosis, Talaromyces marneffei), treatment failure and second-line and third-line antiretroviral therapy, pharmacokinetic profiles of new antiretroviral drugs, vaccination and re-vaccination against important vaccine preventable diseases among children and adolescents living with HIV. In addition to HIV/AIDS research field, her research areas of interest are focused on emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, respiratory viral illnesses, vaccine-preventable diseases, and other common pediatric infectious diseases in the tropical countries, as well as vaccine and immunization in general healthy youth. She has also been the recipient of numerous awards and honors in this research field.
