Dr. Apichat Tantraworasin currently serves as an Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery at the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University. He received his medical degree and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in clinical epidemiology from the Chiang Mai University. Dr. Apichat Tantraworasin completed his General Surgical Residence and Fellowship of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery at the Chiang Mai University. He also completed the 2-year research fellowship of Thoracic Surgery at the Icahn Medical school at Mount Sinai, New York, USA. In 2009, Dr. Apichat Tantraworasin joined the Chiang Mai University where he became associate professor in 2019. He also works as the head of the Clinical Epidemiology and Clinical Statistics Center, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University. Dr. Apichat Tantraworasin's works focus on minimally invasive surgery in general thoracic disease, and also chest wall reconstruction.