The Opening Ceremony of Siriraj Tenure Club

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On July 31st, 2020, Prof. Dr. Prasit Watanapa, Dean of Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital together with the Board of Siriraj Medical School, attended the opening ceremony of Siriraj Tenure Club at SiMR Auditorium, 12 Fl. The ‘Siriraj Tenure Club’ is a collaborated project among Academic Affairs Division, Human Resource Division, Research Division, and International Relations Division to prepare and enhance research and English communication skill for Faculty instructors who pursue higher studies abroad. #irsiriraj

Hazardous Waste Management

The Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital and Siriraj Piyamaharajkarun Hospital are the medical institutes and huge organizations consisted of many healthcare personnel from internal and external, patients and visitors as well as being role model hospitals in environment conservation and effective resources management. It posed a necessity for both hospitals to come up with the project of “Hazardous Waste Management” to ensure that the dangerous waste will not contaminate the community and people in the area.

On implementation, both hospitals carried out an annual training course in waste handling for the personnel of the hospitals, set up the waste assemble point at Siriraj Hospital, and create a manual of hazardous waste management for Siriraj personnel to implement in their departments and units.

 

Siriraj Center of Research Excellence Management Unit

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‘Siriraj Center of Research Excellence Management Unit (SiCORE-M)’ was founded in 2017 as a management initiative to create a new research ecosystem with customized strategic research management to serve the complex need of ‘Siriraj Center of Research Excellence (SiCORE)’. It also responds to significant health problems, both domestic and international scene, which results in various activities that have been organized so far.

Objectives:

  1. 1. To accommodate quality research that meets the domestic, regional, or global demand.
  2. Support and facilitate the researcher for the smooth progress of the research operations following the funding rules and procedures.
  3. Strengthen the capacity of researchers and research teams to create ‘internationally recognized’ and ‘effective’ research and innovation that help increase the economic wealth compliant to ‘National strategy Thailand 4.0’ and ‘National Research and Innovation Policy Council’.

Specific Purposes:

  1. Develop a research map, research shows, research gap, and the research interest groups, which lead to the research direction, goal, and researcher development guidelines, to fill the gaps in knowledge through research.
  2. Support research utilization rather than academic dissemination especially the practical use and increasing economic value of research results.
  3. 3. Build a network of researchers inside and outside Siriraj (both domestic and international institutes). Strengthening the researchers’ capacity to conduct research on various issues to achieve common goals.
  4. Develop the strength of Siriraj’s research management organizations to respond to the research policy in Siriraj, society, and Thailand with efficiency, ethics, accuracy, and transparency.

 

 

Anti-plastic Bags Campaign

The Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital responds to the government campaign as the so-called “Every Day Say No to Plastic Bags”, launched a campaign to reduce the amount of single-use of plastic bags in order to improve and promote the physical environment of the hospital as well as surrounded areas, waste management to conform with the standard of Joint Commission International (JCI) and Enhancement and Conservation of National Environmental Quality Act (No. 2).

The implementation started in April 2019. The faculty posted the announcement and indicate all food shops and convenience stores in Siriraj Hospital including the pharmacy to stop giving customers plastic bags and foam boxes that are the main cause of producing a warming “greenhouse” effect.

Siriraj Daycare

Siriraj Daycare Center was established in 1985 by the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital as the faculty realized the importance of Siriraj personnel welfare. Most Siriraj personnel require two-way income which means both parents need to go to work. By doing that, most of them do not have time to take care of their children and hold down a job at the same time. Therefore, Siriraj Daycare Center is set up to support personnel’s welfare and promote breastfeeding for the newborn.

Siriraj Daycare operates under the objectives to take care of the personnel’s children from the age of 3 months – 3 years, to become a well-equipped Day Care, to provide knowledge of the development of behavioral pediatric for the public and communities. In one year, the center receives around 50 children from Siriraj personnel to receive daycare. The children are provided with a variety of activities that include songs and storytelling. For toddlers, the center implements fun and recreational tasks which improves their intellectual growth and development.

Green Space of Siriraj

As the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital is having over 20,000 personnel more than 3 million outpatient visits per year staying in a limited and crowded area, the faculty, therefore, decided to create more green space for both domestic and public usage and leisure.

The green space of Siriraj is surrounded by Prince Mahidol Statue, the center of the hospital, providing a nice scenery and clean air for visitors as well as Siriraj personnel. The faculty believes that green spaces can give enormous benefits to the neighborhood and community by improving health, social well-being, and enhancing the enjoyment of the local environment.

Research Management Webinar Series

Webinar:

Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University and Siriraj Center of Research Excellence Management Unit (SiCORE-M), organize a Research Management Webinar Series on “Turning Threat into Research Opportunities in COVID-19 Pandemic” on August 28th,2020 at 13.00 – 16.30 (ICT). This webinar series would be a great opportunity to learn from experiences of our expert panelists i.e. COVID-19 vaccine development both in the United Kingdom and Thailand as well as the current situation and research landscape in Thailand during COVID-19 pandemic.

This event is open for free registration online at https://rb.gy/cdlw5e. The seat is reserved at 50 persons for onsite and 300 persons for webinar. Please complete the registration form before attending.

Siriraj Joined International Video Conference

On July 24th, 2020, Dr. Sarunthorn Puttipaibool, an applied Thai traditional medical practitioner from the Center of Applied Thai Traditional Medicine given a presentation on “Thai Traditional Medicine for Maternal Health and Its Application in the New Normal Era” at the International Video Conference “Complementary Therapy Service for Maternal Health in the New Normal Era” hosted by Poltekkes Kemenkes Semarang (Health Polytechnic Kemenkes of Semarang), Indonesia. Watch online at https://youtu.be/PqOe6kWh6n8

SiCORE-M team visited Medicines Regulation Division, Food and Drug Administration

On 15th July 2020, Prof.Dr. Prasert Auewarakul, Deputy Dean for Research and SiCORE-M team (led by Assoc. Prof. Sith Sathornsumethee, Manager) visited Medicines Regulation Division, Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Suchart Chongprasert, Director of Medicines Regulation Division welcomed the delegates from Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital and discussed about procedures of drug registration, as well as Advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) process. Our team would like to take this opportunity to express our profound gratitude to Medicines Regulation Division for having offered us a great opportunity to meet with the director and team, and thank you most sincerely for the kind reception and hospitality also useful advice given to us.

 

Meeting with the Research Management and Development Division, Mahidol University.

On 26th June 2020, Prof.Dr. Prasert Auewarakul, Deputy Dean for Research and SiCORE-M team, led by Assoc. Prof. Sith Sathornsumethee, Manager and his team visited the Research Management and Development Division, Mahidol University. In this occasion, Prof. Wachira Kochakarn, Acting Vice President for Research and Scientific Affairs, along with Prof. Narattaphol Charoenphandhu, and staff members from Research Management and Development Division, welcomed all visitors. This meeting provides the details of overall research management at Mahidol University and consultation about research manpower and funding. From this meeting, our research management team had certainly gained numerous insights and new ideas that will assist us immensely in the development of research and grant management.