Kris Chatamra MBBS, LRCP, MRCS, FRCS, MD

Dr Kris Chatamra was educated in the UK and came back to Thailand after thirty years as a senior clinician and an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was also awarded the prestigious, Buckstone Brown Award for medical research on the liver, in addition to the Cutler’s Award for surgical research. (His post-doctoral thesis, M.D. London was on the regeneration of the liver. He is now the Honorary Director and founder of the Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer, (QSCBC) a centre of excellence for breast cancer which cares for all women but primarily the underprivileged. He extended the project to form the Queen Sirikit Centre Foundation which raises funds to organise breast and cervical cancer screening projects in the slum communities; research and treatment at the Queen Sirikit Centre and the ‘Pink Park’ project, a convalescence, cancer rehabilitation and end of a life care home for the poorest cancer patients in Thailand.