Dr. Kamol Pansritum

Dr. Kamol Pansritum (Thai: นพ. กมล พันธ์ศรีทุม) is a plastic surgeon in Bangkok, Thailand, and the founder and chief plastic surgeon of Kamol Cosmetic Hospital, a cosmetic surgery hospital in the Wang Thonglang district that the Joint Commission International (JCI) directory lists as accredited. The hospital he founded is also the one workplace that an official website currently confirms for him. Some online directories connect him with other Bangkok hospitals, but none of those hospitals names him on its own site, so we do not list them.

He studied medicine at Khon Kaen University and then completed two residencies at Chulalongkorn Hospital, first in general surgery and later in plastic surgery, and holds Thai board diplomas in both. His hospital profile gives his specialty as plastic surgery with four named areas: gender-affirming surgery (MTF and FTM: male-to-female and female-to-male), facial feminisation surgery (FFS), advanced aesthetic plastic surgery, and reconstructive and revision surgery.

Most of the official material about Dr. Kamol concerns gender-affirming surgery. The hospital's service pages name him in connection with male-to-female genital surgery, peritoneal vaginoplasty, revision vaginoplasty, facial feminization and masculinization, and phalloplasty. His conference presentations cover metoidioplasty, and his papers indexed in PubMed, all carrying a Kamol Cosmetic Hospital affiliation, deal with urethral reconstruction in phalloplasty, forehead and hairline surgery, nipple reduction for trans men and the repair of rectal injury during genital surgery.

Procedures documented for Dr. Kamol Pansritum

• Feminizing: vaginoplasty, peritoneal vaginoplasty and facial feminization surgery
• Masculinizing: phalloplasty, metoidioplasty and facial masculinization surgery
• Revision: revision vaginoplasty
• Cosmetic: breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, liposuction and blepharoplasty

A procedure appears on this list only when an official source connects it to him: his hospital profile, a hospital service page that names him, or his own published and presented work. Kamol Cosmetic Hospital offers a much wider range than this through its team of surgeons; the hospital profile lists it in full.

His surname is spelled 'Pansritum' on his profile and in PubMed and 'Pansrithum' on the hospital's sex reassignment surgery page; both refer to the same surgeon. Patients who want his opinion on an operation can request a consultation with Dr. Kamol Pansritum; our patient team then confirms his availability with the hospital.

The education set out on Dr. Kamol's Kamol Cosmetic Hospital profile follows a long route into plastic surgery: a medical degree, a spell in general practice, a full general surgery residency and board diploma, and then a separate plastic surgery residency with its own board diploma.

• 1986: Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Khon Kaen University, Thailand. His profile also lists an Outstanding Alumni award from the university's Faculty of Medicine in 2015.
• 1989 to 1992: general surgery residency, Chulalongkorn Hospital. He completed it in 1992 with his Thai board diploma in general surgery (listed as Diplomate, Thai Board of General Surgery; Thai title วุฒิบัตรศัลยกรรมทั่วไป), which the profile records under Chulalongkorn University.
• 1995 to 1997: plastic surgery residency, Chulalongkorn Hospital. It ended in 1997 with his second Thai board diploma, in plastic surgery (listed as Diplomate, Thai Board of Plastic Surgery; Thai title วุฒิบัตรศัลยกรรมตกแต่ง), again recorded under Chulalongkorn University.

Between the two residencies he worked as a general surgeon in Bangkok (see his career below). His earliest publication we found comes from the plastic surgery training years: a 1996 article on craniosynostosis in The Thai Journal of Surgery, carrying the affiliation of Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery.

Genital gender-affirming operations are carried out close to the urethra and the bowel, so some patients ask surgeons about their general surgery training. In Dr. Kamol's case that training is documented by the 1992 board diploma. A diploma records training, not how any individual operation will turn out, which is a question for the consultation.

No overseas fellowship is listed in the sources we reviewed. One older entry on the ThPRS member list gives a later year (B.E. 2550, which is 2007) for the end of his plastic surgery training; his hospital profile gives 1997 (B.E. 2540), and we follow the profile.

Memberships and licence

• ThPRS: his name, licence number 13427 and Kamol Cosmetic Hospital's Wang Thonglang address all appear in the member directory that The Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Thailand publishes.
• ISAPS (International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery): the society's Find-a-Surgeon directory shows him as an active member, practising at Kamol Cosmetic Hospital. His profile words the society's name slightly differently.
• Three further bodies that only his hospital profile names: ThSAPS (The Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons of Thailand), for which we found no public member list; WPATH, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health; and the Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand. Neither of the last two has been checked against that body's own records.
• Medical licence: the number 13427 is given as his Medical Council of Thailand licence on both his profile and his ThPRS entry. The licence can be looked up on the Medical Council of Thailand's public register at checkmd.tmc.or.th, and our patient team can help you confirm it before you travel. The register at checkmd.tmc.or.th is open to the public if you want to run the search, and our research methodology page describes each check we run on a surgeon's credentials.

Current roles

• Founder and Chief Plastic Surgeon, Kamol Cosmetic Hospital, Bangkok (ผู้ก่อตั้งและหัวหน้าศัลยแพทย์ตกแต่ง). The career timeline on his profile runs this role from 1997 to the present, while the biography on the same page says he founded the hospital in 2009, and the hospital describes its own start as a small clinic in Bangkok. The profile does not explain the difference, so we give both dates.
• Editorial/Review Board member, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the Springer journal. Springer's editorial board page lists him there with a Chulalongkorn University affiliation. His Kamol profile describes the role as section editor for transgender surgery; we record the board role that Springer shows. We found no Chulalongkorn University page recording a current position for him.

Earlier posts listed on his profile

• 1986 to 1988: general practitioner, Udonthani Community Hospital (โรงพยาบาลชุมชนอุดรธานี)
• 1989 to 1992: general surgery resident, Chulalongkorn Hospital
• 1992 to 1994: general surgeon, Internavanakorn Hospital, Bangkok (โรงพยาบาลอินทรานวนคร)
• 1995 to 1997: plastic surgery resident, Chulalongkorn Hospital
• 1997 to 2003: plastic surgeon, Ananthamahidol Hospital, Lopburi
• Plastic surgeon at the 'Royal Army Hospital', as published on the English profile without dates; the Thai profile does not repeat this line

Published work

PubMed indexes four of his papers, and each gives Kamol Cosmetic Hospital or Kamol Hospital as his affiliation. By year:

• 2021, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open: forehead and hairline surgery for gender affirmation
• 2022, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: a rectoprostatic fascia flap used to reinforce the repair of rectal injury and rectoneovaginal fistula during gender-affirmation surgery
• 2022, the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery: building the urethra with a graft of peritoneum during phalloplasty for trans men
• 2024, JPRAS Open: reducing the nipples of trans men with a 'mushroom flap' technique

Three further articles appear in the International Journal of Transplantation & Plastic Surgery: a 2020 case report on laparoscopic reconstruction of a neovagina from the ascending colon after a severe stricture of an earlier sigmoid colon neovagina; a 2024 paper on decade-long outcomes of prefabricated urethral reconstruction in phalloplasty; and a 2025 literature review, with his personal perspective, on peritoneal vaginoplasty in transgender women.

Presentations and awards listed on his profile

His profile lists presentations on metoidioplasty at OSAPS 2014 (as an alternative to phalloplasty), at the ThPRS meeting in 2020 (an extended labial flap technique) and at ISAPS 2023 (a Martius-ring flap technique), a WPATH 2014 poster on revision of sex reassignment surgery, and a 2017 presentation on laparoscopic sigmoid colon vaginoplasty. It also lists a gold medal at the ISAPS Olympiad in Athens in 2023 for a presentation on a rare complication in neovaginoplasty, a bronze medal at ISAPS 2023 for metoidioplasty with a combined flap technique, and invited-speaker roles at the ISAPS World Congress 2021 and ISAPS Singapore 2025. These awards are as listed by the hospital.

About case numbers

The hospital's pages publish case-volume and years-of-experience figures that differ from page to page, so we do not repeat any of them. If volume matters to you, ask directly how many of your specific operation Dr. Kamol performs personally each year, and how many of those are revisions.

Each part below starts with what the official sources say about Dr. Kamol and then gives general guidance from our procedure pages. The general guidance is not a description of his results, and your suitability for any of these operations needs an individual assessment by the surgical team.

Vaginoplasty (male-to-female genital surgery)

The hospital's sex reassignment surgery page sets out Dr. Kamol's own male-to-female technique: it identifies and preserves the nerves running from the glans so that the new clitoral area has several points of sensation, and it uses a shorter scar than the conventional approach. At hospital level, Kamol Cosmetic Hospital describes a shallow-depth option without a deep canal (its 'SRS I', which corresponds to what our guide calls vulvoplasty), a full-depth vaginoplasty lined with penile skin (its 'SRS II', our penile inversion vaginoplasty), and peritoneal and colon techniques.

In general, the operation forms a clitoris, labia and a vaginal canal, and in most cases the testes come out at the same time. This is major surgery. Our vaginoplasty guide gives five to seven nights on the ward as a common hospital stay, within a total of three to four weeks in Thailand, and afterwards a long-term dilation routine stops the canal from losing depth. Skin that will form the lining of the canal can carry hair, so many surgeons ask for it to be cleared permanently by electrolysis or laser first, a process that often runs over several months; ask Dr. Kamol's team what they expect well before you book. Dr. Kamol's profile states WPATH membership, and Thai surgeons generally work to that body's SOC-8 guidance (the eighth version of its Standards of Care); his own requirements for letters and hormone therapy are not published, so ask for them in writing. After discharge, Dr. Kamol's patients continue recovering at K Garden, serviced apartments owned by the hospital a short way off, and the hospital's recovery page says specialist nurses there look after wound dressings and dilation sessions twice daily for trans women recovering from genital surgery.

Peritoneal vaginoplasty (PPV)

The hospital's peritoneal vaginoplasty page says the surgical team led by Dr. Kamol specialises in the technique, and his 2025 review of peritoneal vaginoplasty in transgender women is linked from his profile. In general terms, peritoneal vaginoplasty uses the peritoneum, the thin membrane that lines the inside of the abdomen, to line part of the new canal. We do not publish separate recovery figures for this technique, so ask the hospital for a written estimate of hospital nights and total time in Bangkok. The hospital's published team for this work also includes colorectal surgeon Dr. Charnjiroj Thiptanakit, whose Kamol profile names sigmoid colon and peritoneal vaginoplasty among his areas of work, and the operating floor has an endoscopic suite. Ask who performs the abdominal part of the operation, how the approach is chosen for you, and how recovery differs from penile inversion.

Revision vaginoplasty, and where colon vaginoplasty fits

Reconstructive and revision surgery is one of the four areas named on Dr. Kamol's profile, and the hospital's revision vaginoplasty page says its specialist team is led by him. His profile lists a WPATH 2014 poster on revising sex reassignment surgery, and his published work includes the 2020 case report on rebuilding a neovagina from the ascending colon after a severe stricture, and the 2022 paper on a flap to repair rectal injury and rectoneovaginal fistula in gender-affirming surgery.

In general, the complications our vaginoplasty guide describes include narrowing or loss of depth, urinary problems, changes in sensation and, rarely, a fistula with the bowel, and some people choose a secondary procedure to refine the labia. A revision is planned around what was done the first time, so the operation notes from your first surgery are the most important thing you can provide.

Kamol Cosmetic Hospital also offers colon (sigmoid) vaginoplasty, done either as open surgery or laparoscopically. Its colon vaginoplasty page credits the hospital's colorectal and paediatric surgeons rather than Dr. Kamol; their Kamol profiles describe Dr. Danai Meekaewkunchorn performing the open colon technique and Dr. Kasidin Vitoopinyoparb preparing the colon graft laparoscopically. For that reason we do not list colon vaginoplasty as one of Dr. Kamol's own procedures.

Facial feminization surgery (FFS)

FFS is named among the services on Dr. Kamol's profile, and the hospital's FFS page sets out 'Dr. Kamol's principle of Facial Feminization Surgery'. His 2021 paper in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open covers forehead and hairline surgery for gender affirmation. At hospital level, Kamol Cosmetic Hospital offers feminizing rhinoplasty (reduction, augmentation or both), chin and jaw feminization, forehead contouring, hairline lowering and a tracheal shave.

In general, FFS combines several procedures chosen for the individual face, often planned with a CT scan when the bone of the forehead, jaw or chin is reshaped. Our FFS guide gives one to three nights on the ward and ten to fourteen days in Thailand as common figures; the bulk of the swelling goes down within weeks, although some residual puffiness can linger for months. For facial surgery, SOC-8 does not require any set period of hormone therapy, although individual surgeons may apply criteria of their own. Very long combined operations carry more risk, so with a combined plan, ask which parts Dr. Kamol performs himself, whether he would stage the work, and how long the operation is expected to last.

Facial masculinization surgery (FMS)

The hospital's FMS page says its team is led by Dr. Kamol Pansritum, who has performed both FFS and FMS. We do not give general recovery figures for FMS on this page. Ask which features the plan would change, whether bone work or implants are involved, whether a CT scan is needed, and how long you should plan to stay in Bangkok.

Phalloplasty

The hospital's phalloplasty page features 'Dr. Kamol Pansritum and his team' and says he leads its female-to-male team. His published work concentrates on the urethra, the part of phalloplasty where complications most often arise: his 2022 paper on using a peritoneal graft to build the urethra, and the 2024 paper on decade-long outcomes of prefabricated urethral reconstruction. The hospital's operating floor includes a dedicated microsurgery theatre.

In general, phalloplasty builds a penis from forearm or thigh tissue, usually in two or three operations that together take a year or longer. For the first stage, our phalloplasty guide gives one to two weeks as a common hospital stay and a total of three to four weeks in Thailand. With urethral lengthening many people can urinate standing, but fistulas and strictures are the most common complications and may need further surgery, and the flap's survival depends on not smoking. Within the hospital's gender-affirming team, gynaecologist Dr. Apichart Jaideecharoen is listed as performing vaginal hysterectomy and oophorectomy for trans men, and urologist Dr. Ravis Tivitmahaisoon lists genital reconstruction and urethral lengthening. Ask Dr. Kamol which donor site he recommends for you, how he plans to build the urethra, how many stages to expect, and how problems are handled once you are home.

Metoidioplasty

Metoidioplasty is documented for Dr. Kamol through his conference work rather than a service page: his profile lists presentations on metoidioplasty as an alternative to phalloplasty (OSAPS 2014), an extended labial flap technique (ThPRS 2020) and a Martius-ring flap technique (ISAPS 2023), together with the MTF and FTM gender-affirming surgery entry on his services list. The hospital's metoidioplasty page itself does not name him.

In general, metoidioplasty releases the testosterone-enlarged clitoris to form a small phallus, with optional urethral lengthening, scrotoplasty and vaginectomy. The operation commonly takes two to five hours, with three to seven nights in hospital and two to three weeks in Thailand; after urethral lengthening, a urinary catheter is often needed for one to three weeks. It needs no donor site and generally preserves erotic sensation, but the phallus is small and penetrative sex is usually not possible. Because his presentations describe different flap techniques, ask which one he would use for you and why.

Breast augmentation, and what 'chest surgery' on his profile does and does not cover

His profile lists 'Breast Augmentation and Chest Surgery' among the services he covers, without separating cosmetic augmentation from gender-affirming breast augmentation; the hospital offers both. In general, augmentation takes one to two hours, is a day case or needs one night in hospital, and a seven-to-ten-day stay in Thailand is the usual plan. Our guide also points out that implants do not last a lifetime: many people eventually have another operation to exchange or remove them, so collect your implant card (it records brand, size and lot numbers) before flying home.

'Chest surgery' could also suggest top surgery for trans men, which the hospital offers, but no official page we found says Dr. Kamol performs mastectomy himself. His 2024 paper on nipple reduction for trans men is related research, not evidence of who operates. If top surgery is what you need, ask our patient team which Kamol surgeon would carry it out.

Rhinoplasty, liposuction and eyelid surgery

Rhinoplasty, body sculpting and liposuction appear on his profile's services list, and the hospital's blepharoplasty page says Dr. Kamol, its founder, has performed eyelid procedures. Beyond those statements the sources do not describe his cosmetic work in detail, so treat these as areas to discuss with him rather than documented special interests.

In general, after rhinoplasty our guide suggests keeping a week to ten days free in Thailand: the external splint normally comes off in that window, and the tip carries on refining subtly for a year or longer. Liposuction is a contouring operation, not a way to lose weight; expect several weeks in a compression garment afterwards, and seven to ten days in Thailand is a common plan. For eyelid surgery, stitches usually come out after five to seven days, and most people fly home around then. The hospital also has facelift and brow lift pages that describe a team 'led by' Dr. Kamol; because they do not say he performs those operations, we have not listed them.

A first consultation with Dr. Kamol can be requested online, before you travel, or in person at Kamol Cosmetic Hospital in Bangkok. Either way, the most useful questions are specific to the operation you are considering and to how his team divides the work.

If you are considering vaginoplasty or peritoneal vaginoplasty

• Which technique does he recommend for my anatomy and goals: penile skin, peritoneum, or a combination? What depth can I realistically expect?
• How does his nerve-preserving approach work, and what might it mean for sensation in my case?
• What does he need from me beforehand: assessment letters, time on hormones, finished hair removal? For reference, SOC-8, as summarised in our vaginoplasty guide, suggests a hormone course of six months or more before genital surgery, with an exception where hormones would be medically unsuitable or the patient does not want them.
• Who else will operate, for example a colorectal surgeon for a peritoneal approach?
• What dilation routine will I follow at K Garden, and what support is available after I fly home?

If you are seeking a revision

• Having read my operation notes, what does he think the problem is, and what can realistically be improved?
• Would the revision use skin, peritoneum or bowel, and why?
• How many revisions of this kind does he perform each year?

If you are considering phalloplasty or metoidioplasty

• Which fits my goals, and could phalloplasty follow metoidioplasty later if I change my mind?
• For phalloplasty: forearm or thigh donor site, how many stages, and how the urethra will be built.
• For metoidioplasty: which flap technique he uses and why, and whether urethral lengthening, scrotoplasty or vaginectomy is included.
• How are hysterectomy and oophorectomy scheduled, and by whom?
• How are fistulas or strictures managed if they appear after I return home?

If you are considering FFS or FMS

• Which features does he suggest changing, in what order, and in one operation or in stages?
• Will he request a CT scan, and would he accept one done in my home country?
• Which parts of the plan will he perform himself?

For every procedure

• Which items does the quote cover: ward nights, K Garden accommodation, medicines, check-ups after surgery, and any revision costs?
• How many of this operation does he perform personally each year? The hospital's published figures are inconsistent, so ask for numbers that relate to your procedure.
• Which anaesthetist will look after me, and in which part of the hospital will I spend the first days after surgery?
• Will Kamol Cosmetic Hospital give me a written record of the operation in English that my GP or local surgeon can follow?
• If a complication shows up once I am home, whom at the hospital should I contact, and how will Dr. Kamol's team respond?

Everything in this section is a service of Kamol Cosmetic Hospital, taken from its official website; ThaiCosmeticSurgery.com arranges bookings and gives no medical care.

The building and its floors

Dr. Kamol's hospital address is 1223 Lat Phrao 94, Inthraphon Road, Wang Thonglang district, Bangkok 10310. On 27 September 2026 the hospital appeared as accredited in Joint Commission International's online directory, while a search of HA Thailand's accreditation list returned no Kamol entry. Its facilities page describes a building arranged with the clinics below and surgery and recovery stacked above:

• Floor 2: diagnostics and wellness, with the hospital's own laboratory plus ultrasound, X-ray, ECG and cardiac stress testing, so pre-operative checks can be done in the building.
• Floor 3: the registration desk, consultation rooms and facilities for minor procedures.
• Floor 4: the operating theatres (seven, according to the Thai version of the facilities page), among them a microsurgery theatre and an endoscopic suite, beside an 11-bed monitored recovery room.
• Floors 5 and 6: private ward rooms around a central nurse station, offered as 26 sqm standard rooms or 52 sqm VIP rooms.
• Floor 7: medical residence apartments for recovery stays.

What the hospital says it arranges for patients from abroad

• Before you fly: secure video calls with the hospital's surgeons, so you can put questions to Dr. Kamol's team before committing to the trip; a named representative who coordinates your request; and an international telephone line that also takes urgent calls.
• Arrival and departure: help booking a hotel, airport transfers, and a limousine for the drive back to the airport when you leave Bangkok.
• Recovery at K Garden: once discharged, you move into these serviced apartments, which belong to the hospital and sit a short distance from it; there dressings are changed, stitches removed and surgeon check-ups held, with the twice-daily nursing care after genital surgery described above.
• Paperwork: extending a medical treatment visa is something the hospital can do for you.
• Paying: Kamol accepts card payment (credit or debit), bank transfer, or cash in baht and five foreign currencies: USD, EUR, GBP, AUD and CAD.

Languages. Dr. Kamol's profile does not say which languages he speaks. According to the hospital, its staff work in Thai and English, and interpreters for other languages are available when requested; mention this in your consultation request if you need one.

How long to plan for. Dr. Kamol or his team will tell you when you are fit to fly, so buy a ticket you can change. Typical time in Thailand, taken from our procedure guides rather than from the hospital: roughly three to four weeks after vaginoplasty; about the same for a first-stage phalloplasty, with shorter visits for the later stages; two to three weeks after metoidioplasty, or longer while a catheter remains in place; ten to fourteen days for FFS, more after a large combined operation; seven to ten days after breast augmentation, rhinoplasty or liposuction; and five to seven days for eyelid surgery. Many people who travel for genital surgery come with a companion, and recovering at K Garden keeps you near the hospital for dressing changes and check-ups.

Every request should say which operation you have in mind, the dates that would work for you, and whether you would rather meet Dr. Kamol by video or in Bangkok. Add a brief health summary: the medicines you take, allergies, whether you smoke, and past operations. The points below, grouped by his documented procedures, come on top of that. Documents and photographs can wait: once his team asks for them, our booking form or WhatsApp is the route to use.

Vaginoplasty or peritoneal vaginoplasty

• The hormones you take, and the date you started them.
• Assessment letters, if you already have them, or a note of what your clinician at home can provide.
• Progress so far with genital hair removal (laser or electrolysis sessions completed).
• Earlier abdominal or pelvic operations, relevant if a peritoneal approach is being considered.
• Your goals for depth, and whether you would prefer to avoid dilation, which would point towards a zero-depth option.

Revision vaginoplasty

• The operation notes from your first surgery: who operated, when, which technique, and whether skin grafts, peritoneum or colon were used.
• A description of the problem, such as narrowing, loss of depth, urinary symptoms or the appearance of the labia.
• Your current dilation routine and dilator size.

Phalloplasty or metoidioplasty

• How long you have been taking testosterone.
• Whether you have had a hysterectomy or top surgery, and where.
• Your priorities: standing urination, size, sensation, sexual function, or fewer operations.
• Phalloplasty only: the donor site you have in mind (forearm or thigh) and whether its hair has already been removed.

FFS or FMS

• Front, side and three-quarter photos in even light with the hair pulled back from the forehead, if the team requests them.
• Any facial CT scans you already have.
• Details of previous facial surgery, fillers or implants.
• A short list of the features you want to change, ranked from most to least important.

Breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, liposuction or eyelid surgery

• Breasts: details of previous breast surgery and any implant cards.
• Nose: front, side and base photos if requested, plus any breathing problems or earlier nose surgery.
• Body: the areas you want treated and whether your weight is stable.
• Eyelids: tell the team about dry eyes, glaucoma, thyroid-related eye problems or any change in your vision.

Save a copy of each document and photo you share with Kamol Cosmetic Hospital; the doctors who look after you at home will need the same file after your trip.