Dr. Danai Meekaewkunchorn

Dr. Danai Meekaewkunchorn (Thai: ดนัย มีแก้วกุญชร) is a Bangkok surgeon whose board qualifications are in general surgery and paediatric surgery, not plastic surgery. He is listed on ThaiCosmeticSurgery.com for one specific reason: the official profile published by Kamol Cosmetic Hospital places him on its Gender Affirming Surgery Team and states that he performs the open colon technique in vaginoplasty for transgender women. Patients who ask Kamol about colon (sigmoid) vaginoplasty, a technique that uses a segment of bowel to line the vaginal canal, may therefore find him involved in their care.

His main hospital is Phramongkutklao Hospital in Bangkok. The paediatric surgery staff page of the hospital's Department of Surgery shows him as a paediatric surgeon there from 2002 onwards. Kamol's profile describes him as Director of the Department of Surgery at Phramongkutklao Hospital, and the senior-commanders page of Phramongkutklao College of Medicine names him the college's Deputy Director for Academic Affairs. His work at Phramongkutklao is paediatric and general surgery: no official page we found connects him with cosmetic or gender-affirming surgery at that hospital.

At Kamol Cosmetic Hospital, which is in Wang Thonglang, Bangkok, and holds JCI accreditation, two procedure areas are documented for him:

• [Colon (sigmoid) vaginoplasty](/gender-affirming-surgery/colon-vaginoplasty/) by the open technique, that is, through an incision rather than by keyhole (laparoscopic) surgery.
• [Revision vaginoplasty](/gender-affirming-surgery/revision-vaginoplasty/) using a colon segment, which Kamol names among the situations in which he uses the open colon technique.

Kamol's profile also lists complex colorectal and intestinal reconstruction, surgical training and education, and multidisciplinary patient-centred care among his areas of focus, and labels him "Pediatric Surgeon" in its doctors directory.

If you would like to discuss a colon vaginoplasty or a colon-segment revision that could involve Dr. Danai, request a consultation. Our patient team relays the enquiry to Kamol Cosmetic Hospital, follows up on the answer and passes Kamol's proposal on to you; an appointment exists only once Kamol has confirmed it.

Two official sources describe Dr. Danai's training: his Kamol Cosmetic Hospital profile and a CV slide on the paediatric surgery staff page of Phramongkutklao Hospital's Department of Surgery. The Phramongkutklao slide gives Thai Buddhist-era years, which we have converted to the Western calendar.

• Doctor of Medicine, 1988–1993. Phramongkutklao College of Medicine, Bangkok. The Phramongkutklao slide places him in the college's class 13.
• General surgery residency, 1994–1997. Phramongkutklao Hospital.
• Thai Board of General Surgery, 1997. Listed on his Kamol profile.
• Paediatric surgery fellowship, 1998–2000. Subspecialty residency (the Thai term is แพทย์ประจำบ้านต่อยอด) in paediatric surgery at Siriraj Hospital.
• Thai Board of Pediatric Surgery, 2001. Listed on his Kamol profile.
• Diploma in Surgery, 2025. Kamol's English profile lists this and attributes it to the Medical Council of Thailand; the Thai version of the profile calls it ประกาศนียบัตรวิชาชีพชั้นสูง สาขาศัลยศาสตร์, a higher professional certificate in surgery.

Professional membership. Typing his surname into the member lookup run by Thailand's Royal College of Surgeons (RCST) brings up an entry for DANAI MEEKAEWKUNCHORN, with surgery recorded as his field. We also scanned the ThPRS list, the published members of Thailand's plastic and reconstructive surgery society, and his name was not on it. Both findings sit comfortably with a career built on general and paediatric surgery: none of the official sources we read mentions a plastic surgery residency or a plastic surgery board for him.

Publication. PubMed indexes a 2001 paper in the Thai medical association's journal (J Med Assoc Thai), "Sacrococcygeal teratoma: 25 year experience", from the Department of Surgery at Siriraj Hospital, with an author listed as Meekaewkunchorn D. It dates from the years of his Siriraj fellowship and matches his paediatric surgery training, but PubMed does not give an affiliation for each author, so we treat it as a probable rather than a certain match.

What the sources do not say. We found no overseas fellowship, no named centre where he trained in gender-affirming surgery, and no year in which he began performing colon vaginoplasty. If any of those points matter to your decision, raise them at the consultation.

The Phramongkutklao Department of Surgery slide sets out his early career year by year; his Kamol profile and Phramongkutklao College of Medicine add his present posts.

Career path

• 1993–1994: general practitioner at Fort Somdet Chaophraya Maha Kasatsuek Hospital.
• 1994–1997: general surgery resident at Phramongkutklao Hospital.
• 1997–1998: surgeon at Fort Thanarat Hospital.
• 1998–2000: paediatric surgery fellow at Siriraj Hospital.
• 2000–2002: general and paediatric surgeon at Ananda Mahidol Hospital.
• 2002 to the present: paediatric surgeon with Phramongkutklao Hospital's Department of Surgery. The same slide, whose files date from 2020, shows him as head of the paediatric surgery division (หัวหน้าสาย). We could not confirm whether he still holds that post.

Current roles

• Deputy Director for Academic Affairs, Phramongkutklao College of Medicine. Shown on the college's senior-commanders page, which gives his military rank as Colonel (พันเอก).
• Director of the Department of Surgery, Phramongkutklao Hospital. Stated on his Kamol profile. A 2024 announcement from the Mahitala Dhibesra Institute of the Medical Council of Thailand, listing participants in its medical-governance course for senior executives, also names him ผู้อำนวยการกองศัลยกรรม (director of the surgery division) at Phramongkutklao Hospital.
• Lecturer, Department of Surgery, Phramongkutklao College of Medicine. On his Kamol profile; the college's Department of Surgery website also lists him among its teaching staff.
• Executive Committee Member, Consortium of Thai Medical Schools (COTMES). Stated on his Kamol profile.
• Clinical skills instructor and medical examiner at national medical training events. Stated on his Kamol profile.
• Kamol Cosmetic Hospital: Gender Affirming Surgery Team. Kamol says he performs the open colon technique in vaginoplasty. The profile also says he has worked with the Kamol team for more than 20 years; that is the hospital's statement, and we have not found an independent record of when the collaboration began.

Taken together, most of Dr. Danai's documented career has been spent in a teaching hospital and its medical college, where he combines surgery with teaching, examining and academic administration. His gender-affirming work is a defined contribution to Kamol's team rather than a separate cosmetic practice. No clinic timetable for him at Kamol appears on the official pages we read, so our patient team asks the hospital directly whether, and when, he can take part in your consultation.

Kamol Cosmetic Hospital's profile says Dr. Danai performs the open colon technique in vaginoplasty especially for patients who need greater vaginal depth, self-lubrication or revision procedures. Those reasons are the basis for the two procedure areas we list for him.

Open colon (sigmoid) vaginoplasty

As a general description, the operation builds a vaginal canal together with a clitoris and labia. Most operations line the canal with skin, as in penile inversion vaginoplasty. Colon (sigmoid) vaginoplasty uses a segment of bowel instead, and our vaginoplasty guide notes that it tends to be kept for particular circumstances, for example a revision or a shortage of skin.

Kamol's gender reassignment service page says the hospital offers colon vaginoplasty by open and by laparoscopic approaches. Dr. Danai's documented role is the open approach. Kamol's pages also name two colorectal surgeons in connection with colon techniques: Dr. Kasidin Vitoopinyoparb, for laparoscopic colon graft preparation, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Charnjiroj Thiptanakit, whom Kamol describes as consulting on sigmoid colon and peritoneal techniques. If a colon technique is suggested for you, which approach is recommended, and so which surgeon takes part, is worth settling early.

Kamol does not publish how the team divides a colon vaginoplasty between surgeons: who leads the operation, which plastic surgeon creates the external genitals, and which stage Dr. Danai performs. Ask for this in writing before you commit.

Points patients commonly weigh when a bowel-lined canal is proposed:

• Why colon rather than skin, for you. Kamol links his technique to depth, self-lubrication and revision. Ask the team to explain, for your anatomy, what a colon lining would offer compared with a skin-lined or peritoneal vaginoplasty, and what extra surgery it involves.
• The abdominal stage. Because the bowel segment is taken from inside the abdomen, the operation includes bowel surgery as well as genital surgery. Ask how your bowel is prepared beforehand, how the bowel is rejoined, and how eating and bowel function are managed while you recover.
• Dilation and daily care. Our vaginoplasty guide explains that dilation is usually needed long term to maintain depth. Ask how the dilation routine, hygiene and aftercare for a colon-lined canal differ from what you may have read about skin-lined vaginoplasty.
• Complications. In general terms, our vaginoplasty guide names bleeding, infection, poor wound healing, urinary problems, narrowing or shallowing of the canal, changes in feeling and one uncommon but serious complication, an abnormal opening between the rectum and the vagina (rectovaginal fistula). A colon operation adds an abdominal stage on top of these, so ask the team which further risks that brings and how they would recognise and treat them.

Only an examination and assessment of you in person can show whether a bowel-lined canal is a reasonable option in your case.

Revision vaginoplasty using a colon segment

Revision vaginoplasty covers secondary operations after earlier gender-affirming genital surgery. Kamol names revision among the situations in which Dr. Danai uses the open colon technique, and Kamol's revision vaginoplasty page describes revision with the sigmoid colon, although that page names no surgeon. We therefore link him to colon-segment revision only, not to every kind of revision: refining the labia or other external revisions are not documented for him.

In general, a revision patient arrives with a history that shapes each decision: the original technique, how the canal healed, how much depth has been lost and whether there were complications. Narrowing or loss of depth is one of the complications our vaginoplasty guide lists, and it is one reason people look into a second operation. For the team to judge whether a colon segment is appropriate, they need your previous operation notes and a clear description of the problem you want corrected; the checklist at the end of this page lists what to prepare.

What is not documented for him

Kamol offers other feminizing genital procedures, including penile inversion vaginoplasty, peritoneal vaginoplasty, vulvoplasty and orchiectomy. Because no official page ties any of these to Dr. Danai, they are left off his profile. His paediatric and general surgery practice at Phramongkutklao Hospital is outside the scope of this site.

Kamol presents Dr. Danai's contribution as one part of a team operation, so a consultation about a colon technique has two jobs: deciding whether a bowel lining makes sense for your body, and pinning down which surgeon is responsible for which stage of your care. Some of the questions below are easier to put in writing before a video call; others are better raised face to face.

Eligibility and assessment

• Our vaginoplasty guide explains that genital surgery teams in Thailand generally work from Version 8 of the WPATH Standards of Care (SOC-8). In practice that points to a written assessment from a qualified health professional, the ability to give informed consent, reasonably stable physical and mental health, and hormone therapy for a period beforehand (SOC-8 suggests a minimum of six months) unless hormones are medically unsuitable for you or you do not want them. Letter requirements differ, and some teams still want two. Ask Kamol which documents it needs before a colon operation in particular.
• Kamol's doctors directory also lists psychiatrists. Without an assessment yet? Ask whether one can be arranged in Bangkok and how that would affect your dates.

The surgical plan

• Is a colon technique recommended for me, and why not penile inversion or peritoneal vaginoplasty?
• Would my operation be open, which is Dr. Danai's documented approach, or laparoscopic?
• Who leads the operation, which parts does Dr. Danai perform, and which plastic surgeon works on the external genitals?
• For a primary operation: our vaginoplasty guide notes that the testes are usually removed (orchiectomy) at the same time. Is that planned for me?
• For a revision: what can realistically be improved in my case, and what will remain unchanged?
• Is hair removal needed before surgery, and on which areas? Where skin lines part of the canal, hair can grow there, the guide explains, and permanent removal can stretch over months.

Recovery and safety

• Our vaginoplasty guide describes roughly a week in hospital after vaginoplasty in general. Would the bowel stage of a colon operation lengthen my admission?
• Who will teach me to dilate, and how often will I dilate at first? Kamol's recovery page describes twice-daily dressing changes and dilation support from specialist nurses at its K Garden apartments following male-to-female genital surgery.
• Which warning signs after discharge should prompt an immediate call to the team?
• How will the team follow my recovery from abroad, and will I leave Bangkok with operation notes written in English?
• How often does this team see complications or need to revise a colon vaginoplasty? Kamol publishes no figures for Dr. Danai, and our guide suggests putting this question to every surgeon.

Cost

No price for surgery with Dr. Danai is published. Our vaginoplasty guide lists the factors that usually move the price, including technique, hospital nights, surgeon, anaesthesia, pre-operative tests and combined procedures. Check whether the quote covers dilators, medicines, help with accommodation and follow-up visits after surgery, and what happens to the cost if you need a longer stay.

For overseas patients, Dr. Danai's documented gender-affirming work takes place at Kamol Cosmetic Hospital, so travel plans should be built around that hospital.

Where it is. Kamol's contact page gives the hospital's location as 1223 Lat Phrao 94 on Inthraphon Road, Wang Thonglang district, Bangkok (postcode 10310). The JCI directory gave its status as accredited on 27 September 2026, the date of our check.

How long to plan for. Our colon (sigmoid) vaginoplasty page puts the usual time spent in Thailand at 21–30 days, and our vaginoplasty guide suggests planning for three to four weeks with accommodation that allows rest and privacy. These are general figures; the length of your own stay depends on how you heal. Book a flexible return ticket: the surgical team, not the calendar, sets your fit-to-fly date.

Inside the hospital. According to Kamol's facilities pages:

• the 4th floor is the surgical floor, and its theatres include one equipped for microsurgery and a dedicated endoscopic suite; seven operating rooms are counted on the Thai version of that page;
• 11 monitored recovery beds are placed beside the theatres;
• ward rooms, split between the 5th and 6th floors, come as standard (26 sqm) or VIP (52 sqm);
• the 7th floor holds medical residence apartments used during recovery;
• on the 2nd floor, a wellness and diagnostic centre offers blood tests in its own laboratory, ECG, cardiac stress tests, ultrasound and X-ray imaging.

After discharge. Kamol's recovery pages say that when you leave the ward you move to K Garden, a set of serviced apartments the hospital runs nearby. Dressing changes, removal of stitches and surgeon check-ups take place there; patients recovering from male-to-female genital surgery have their dressings and dilation handled by specialist nurses twice a day, according to Kamol.

Language. Kamol's contact page says its staff work in English and Thai and that an interpreter for another language can be requested. No official page lists the languages Dr. Danai himself speaks, so if you need an interpreter for a consultation involving him, ask for one when you send your request.

Other practicalities. Kamol's contact and travel pages also mention video consultations with its surgeons over a secure connection, useful before you are able to fly; a named representative who handles your consultation request; a phone line for international enquiries; assistance with hotels and airport pick-up; a limousine to the airport at the end of your stay; help extending a medical treatment visa; and several ways to pay: card, bank transfer, or cash in Thai baht, euros, pounds sterling, or US, Australian or Canadian dollars.

Many patients, our vaginoplasty guide observes, bring someone along. Before the flight home, agree with Kamol's team how they will support you remotely and whom your own doctors should contact with questions.

Phramongkutklao Hospital. Dr. Danai also works at Phramongkutklao Hospital in Bangkok, but his documented role there is paediatric and general surgery, teaching and academic administration. We found nothing linking that hospital to colon vaginoplasty with him, so it is not the place to plan this operation.

A colon procedure involves abdominal surgery as well as genital surgery, so the team needs a fuller medical picture than for many cosmetic operations. Preparing the following before your consultation usually shortens the back-and-forth.

For everyone

• Your goals in a few sentences: first operation or revision, and why a bowel-lined canal interests you (for example depth or lubrication, the reasons Kamol gives for his technique).
• Hormones: the medicines, doses and start date of your hormone treatment.
• Gender assessment: copies of letters or reports written after your assessment, or a line saying that it has not happened yet.
• Health background: any ongoing illnesses, the medicines and supplements you use, allergies and your smoking status.
• Your abdomen and bowel: earlier operations inside the abdomen, any bowel disease you have been diagnosed with, and the results of recent bowel investigations if you have them. These matter for an operation that uses a bowel segment.
• Hair removal so far: what you have had, where and when.
• Travel details: the dates you could come, whether you can stay the 21–30 days our colon vaginoplasty page gives as typical, and whether someone will come with you.

For a revision

• operation notes and the discharge summary from your earlier vaginoplasty, including the technique, the hospital and the date;
• details of any later treatment, such as procedures for narrowing or complications;
• a description of the current problem, including your dilation routine and what has changed over time.

Photos

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