Patompong Ungprasert MD, MSc

Dr. Patompong Ungprasert, MD, MSc, is a Physician at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA. Dr. Patompong Ungprasert received a medical degree from Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. After graduation, he spent one year serving as a family doctor in a rural hospital in central Thailand before deciding to pursue further medical education in the United States. He completed his internal medicine residency at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, New York, and completed his rheumatology fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. During the course of his medical education, Dr. Ungprasert developed a special interest in the epidemiology of rheumatic diseases and completed a master's degree in clinical and translation science from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.

Dr. Ungprasert sees all types of patients with autoimmune diseases but his special expertise is in sarcoidosis. His current research is devoted to investigating the clinical characteristics and epidemiology of sarcoidosis. Over the past 5 years, he has published over 30 original articles describing this under-studied disease. Dr. Ungprasert’s team was the first group of investigators to describe the comprehensive modern epidemiology of sarcoidosis. His works were also the first to demonstrate that patients with sarcoidosis have an increased risk of several comorbidities, such as coronary artery disease, stroke, venous thromboembolism, infection, and osteoporotic fracture. His observations were the crucial first step toward understanding the need for comprehensive care of patients with this disease.