| Meet
the staff
Vickey Phutumnong,
Medical Assistant,
has been working with Dr. Wanid since the practice first
moved to Virginia in 2003. She divides her time between
the practice and her family including Andrew, her baby boy.
Mr.
Ruben D. Sira, Medical Assistant,
graduated cum laude with a BA in History and Literature
from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus and
holds an MBA from Strayer University. He has volunteered
with the Arlington Free Clinic and he is currently a volunteer
and working with the Arlington County Office of Voter Registration.
Mr. Sira speaks English, Spanish, and conversational French
and is a certified Professional Medical Interpreter by Northern
Virginia AHEC.
Dan
Levy: Business Manager. Dr.
Levy manages the business end of the practice including
marketing and maintaining this website. He also has a full
time career in public health for a federal agency. He received
a Ph.D. from New York University where his personal and
professional association with Dr. Wanidworanun began.
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Meet
the doctor
Chingchai
Wanidworanun, MD, Ph.D.
(Dr. Wanid)
is licensed to practice medicine in Washington DC, Virginia,
Maryland, and Thailand. He is board certified in Internal
Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
He
received his MD degree in 1980 from Chulalongkorn University,
the oldest university in Thailand. Following an internship
at Sriracha Red Cross Hostpital, he returned to Chulalongkorn
as an Instructor in the Department of Parasitology. After
1 year, he left for further training in the United States,
receiving the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Medical
and Molecular Parasitology at New York University School
of Medicine in 1987.
He
then completed the residency program in Internal Medicine
run by the Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons at Harlem Hospital in New York, followed by further
research training in Immunology at the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda Maryland.
Following this training, he worked for 4 years on the faculty
of Einstein Medical School at Montefiore Hospital in New
York continuing the research into malaria he had started
as a graduate student. In 1998 he returned to the DC area
to begin the full time practice of internal medicine. He
has been trained in medical acupuncture by UCLA school of
Continuing Education.
Portraits
by Lage Carlson Photography
Ruins
of the 17th century capital of Siam
in Ayutthaya, Thailand
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