BHIDAYASIRI, Roongroj: Bangkok/Thailand

Bios

Professor Bhidayasiri graduated in medicine from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, in 1994, receiving membership of the Royal College of Physicians of London and Ireland in 1998 and certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 2005. He was awarded the fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 2008 and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in 2010.

Professor Bhidayasiri leads a Parkinson’s disease registry in Thailand in collaboration with the Thai Red Cross society, the Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok Metropolitan and the National Health Security Office of Thailand. In addition to his role as a clinician and fellowship program director, his research interest is in data science from objective monitoring and assisted devices in Parkinson’s disease. He co-develops devices for tremor and nocturnal monitoring as well as a glove for tremor suppression. His development of an adjustable laser-guided walking stick has been adopted nationwide by the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security of Thailand for patients with freezing of gait.

He serves as the joint editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders and section editor of the journal Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, as well as a writing committee panel member of the American Academy of Neurology on the practice parameters of tardive syndromes. Professor Bhidayasiri is currently a chair-elect of the Asian Oceanic section of the International Movement Disorder Society (MDS).