After finishing nephrology training in Thailand in 2007, he became part of CRISMA research fellow for 2 years and a clinical fellow of Critical Care Medicine for 1 year under mentorship by Professor John A Kellum at the Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA. He received the European Diploma of Intensive Care Medicine in 2012. His main research focuses on tropical infections such as dengue infection and leptospirosis.