Dr. Sukit Warathamrong

Female-to-male genital reconstruction is the work most clearly documented for Dr. Sukit Warathamrong (Thai: นพ.สุกิจ วรธำรง), who holds a plastic surgery post at Yanhee International Hospital, a private, JCI-accredited hospital whose campus lies in Bang Phlat, Bangkok. His English-language Yanhee profile dates his post at the hospital to 1999 and presents him as a board-certified plastic surgeon. On Yanhee's Thai website his profile is filed under two departments: ศูนย์ศัลยกรรมตกแต่ง, the Plastic Surgery Center, and ศูนย์ข้ามเพศ, the transgender service that the English site calls the Pride Center.

The clearest statement of his role comes from Yanhee's gender-affirming pages. The Pride Center team card describes him as “Plastic Surgeon | Expert in Gender Reassignment Surgery (FTM)”, and the English female-to-male surgery page carries the line “FTM Stages 2–3 led by Dr. Sukit Warathamrong”. Those two stages are the genital part of Yanhee's staged FTM pathway. In Stage 2 the vagina is removed (vaginectomy) and the urethra is lengthened, with a new urethral tube prefabricated on the forearm ready for the next operation. Stage 3 is total phalloplasty, in which the forearm tissue is moved to the genital area and the labia majora are reshaped into a scrotum. Our matching guides are urethral lengthening, phalloplasty and scrotoplasty.

Two further sources broaden his listed work. Under treatment experience, his Thai profile includes female-to-male reassignment “all stages” (รวมทุกขั้นตอน), and the Thai page for Yanhee's FTM Stage 1 credits him with one chest case, a mastectomy captioned as a U-incision technique. On that narrower evidence we also connect him with top surgery, with the caveats explained further down. Nose augmentation (เสริมจมูก), which our site files under Asian rhinoplasty, is on that Thai profile too, next to gummy smile correction, correction of eye-muscle defects and Botox injections. His own website, drsukit.com, sums up his focus as female-to-male surgery (all steps), smile correction and nose jobs.

You will also see his surname written Worathamrong. That spelling appears on the Pride Center card, in the heading of his Thai profile and in the ThPRS, ThSAPS and ISAPS directories, while the English profile, the English FTM page and his own site use Warathamrong. Every one of those pages gives the same Thai name, สุกิจ วรธำรง, so both spellings refer to one doctor.

To ask about his availability, request a consultation with Dr. Sukit Warathamrong. We relay what you send to Yanhee's team, and a date counts as booked only once the hospital itself has confirmed it.

Yanhee's English and Thai profiles set out Dr. Sukit's education in three steps. The two plastic surgery steps are also corroborated outside the hospital, by a university alumni list and a society directory; the medical degree rests on the hospital profiles alone.

• Medical degree, 1985. Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University (คณะแพทยศาสตร์ศิริราช มหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล), awarded his Doctor of Medicine. The profile gives the Thai title แพทยศาสตรบัณฑิต, adds the honours note เกียรตินิยมอันดับ 2 (second class) and dates it 2528 in the Buddhist era, equal to 1985.
• Specialty training in plastic surgery, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. The English profile places this under “Specialty Training”. The alumni list kept by Chulalongkorn's plastic and reconstructive surgery division places him in class 7 (รุ่นที่ 7), and an archived English page of the ThSAPS member directory states that he finished training in 1991.
• Specialist diploma in plastic surgery, 1991. Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Medicine is named on his Thai profile as the body behind his specialist certificate (วุฒิบัตร) for the plastic surgery branch, สาขาศัลยศาสตร์ตกแต่ง, dated พ.ศ. 2534 (1991). This Thai specialist qualification is what the English profile describes as “Board Certified Plastic Surgeon”.

Some things are absent from the record. The post-graduate training section of the Thai profile is blank, and no official page we opened mentions a fellowship or training abroad. PubMed returns no indexed papers under Warathamrong, Worathamrong or Warathumrong. Neither absence says anything about his surgical skill. If you want to understand how he learned the forearm urethral prefabrication and phalloplasty methods described on Yanhee's pages, raise it at the consultation.

Licence check. On 27 September 2026 the checkmd site of the Medical Council of Thailand blocked our lookup for Dr. Sukit, and the form did not load. Licence number ว. 12208 appears on his ThPRS entry and in the newer plasticsurgery.or.th directory, but we have not matched it against the council's register, which remains the place to confirm it. The steps we follow for every surgeon are described in our provider research methodology.

Yanhee International Hospital, since 1999. His English profile dates his current plastic surgeon post from 1999. Besides his place on the Pride Center's FTM team, a hospital news item published on 7 May 2026 describes him as a “Plastic Surgery Specialist at the Aesthetic Surgery Center of Yanhee Hospital”.

Before Yanhee. Two provincial hospitals follow his Yanhee post under “Medical Experience” on the English profile: Mittraparp Memorial Hospital in Saraburi Province, and Hat Yai Hospital in Songkhla Province, which the profile spells “Had Yai Hospital, Songkla”. Neither entry carries dates or a job title.

ThSAPS committee terms. Web-archived committee pages of Thailand's aesthetic plastic surgery society (ThSAPS) show him on the society's executive committee in 2014–2016 as a general committee member (กรรมการกลาง) and in 2016–2018 in the academic affairs post (วิชาการ).

Society memberships, and what each one rests on:

• ThPRS (Thai society for plastic and reconstructive surgery): his entry in the public member list gives a Yanhee Hospital address, and plasticsurgery.or.th, the newer directory, tags him as a verified doctor.
• ThSAPS (Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, Thailand): archived copies of its retired online directory record “Member since: 1993” for him.
• ISAPS (International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery): status Active, with Yanhee's Bang Phlat address, in the Thailand results of the ISAPS surgeon finder on our 27 September 2026 check.
• THAI-PATH (Thailand Professional Association of Transgender Health): he is named as an honorary member (สมาชิกกิตติมศักดิ์) on the association's members page; his Yanhee profiles never mention it.
• World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH): “WPATH active member” is stated on his Thai profile. WPATH's provider directory would not open when we checked, so this membership rests on Yanhee's word alone.
• Medical Council of Thailand: appears under memberships on the Thai profile. The council is Thailand's licensing authority for doctors, not an optional society.

Visiting professorship reported by Yanhee. The 7 May 2026 news item states that Asan Medical Center in Seoul (University of Ulsan College of Medicine) gave him “TJ Lee's Visiting Professorship Recognition (2025)” for his work in FTM gender reassignment surgery. We found no Asan Medical Center page confirming it, so treat it as the hospital's own report.

Published case totals. His Thai profile gives case counts for several of his procedure areas. They are the hospital's figures, which we could not check, so we leave them out. Should volume weigh in your decision, put the question to Dr. Sukit himself: how many Stage 2 or Stage 3 operations of your kind he does yearly, and what proportion lead to a complication or revision.

We list a procedure for Dr. Sukit only when a Yanhee page, his Thai profile or drsukit.com names it. Under each heading, the general points are drawn from our procedure guides and apply to the operation as a whole, not to his personal technique or outcomes; whether any of it suits you needs his assessment.

Urethral lengthening and vaginectomy (Yanhee Stage 2)

According to Yanhee's English FTM page, Stage 2 combines vaginectomy with urethral lengthening, and the urethra that will later run through the phallus is prefabricated on the forearm at this point. In general, lengthening the urethra is what allows a person to pass urine standing. Our phalloplasty guide is frank that the urethra is where problems most often arise: fistulas, meaning leaks, and strictures, meaning narrowing, either of which can require another operation. Some people decide on phalloplasty without urethral lengthening to lower that risk, so it is reasonable to ask whether Yanhee's staged plan allows that choice. Skin that will line a new urethra often needs permanent hair removal beforehand; since Yanhee builds the urethra on the forearm, check with Dr. Sukit's team whether this applies to you and how early to start. See also our urethral lengthening page.

Total phalloplasty (Yanhee Stage 3)

Yanhee's page says the prefabricated forearm tissue is transferred to the genital area in Stage 3. Looking at phalloplasty generally, the radial forearm free flap is the donor site used most often; its skin is thin and keeps sensation, and the forearm is left with a visible scar under a skin graft. An anterolateral thigh flap spares the arm, but the tissue is often bulkier and sensation may be reduced. Because Yanhee describes the forearm method, ask whether a thigh flap is ever offered. In the first days after a flap operation, patients generally stay on bed rest in hospital with a catheter and drains while the flap is watched closely, and stopping all smoking is essential if the flap is to survive. Risks our phalloplasty guide asks you to discuss include infection, bleeding and blood clots, loss of part or all of the flap, problems at the donor site, reduced sensation and, if implants are placed later, implant complications. The whole pathway usually stretches over a year or more and involves more than one trip to Thailand.

Scrotoplasty

Scrotal reconstruction belongs to Yanhee's Stage 3: the English FTM page says the labia majora are converted into a scrotum. In general, testicular implants, and erectile implants for those who want them, are placed at a later stage, once the earlier surgery has healed. Our scrotoplasty page gives an overview; ask Dr. Sukit when, and in which operation, Yanhee would place any implant.

Top surgery (chest masculinization)

The link to chest surgery is weaker than for the genital stages. It rests on the “all stages” wording of his Thai profile and on a single mastectomy case credited to him on Yanhee's Thai Stage 1 page, captioned as a U-incision technique (แผลเทคนิคตัว U), which that page treats as a periareolar approach. The Pride Center, meanwhile, names his colleague Dr. Chokchai Amornsawadwattana as its “Expert in Top Surgery (Mastectomy)”. If a flat chest is your main aim, ask which Yanhee surgeon would operate. As general guidance, our top surgery guide explains that the technique is chosen from chest size and skin quality: a double incision with free nipple grafts is the usual method for medium and larger chests, a periareolar incision is used for smaller chests whose skin is elastic, and a keyhole incision is reserved for very small, firm chests. The same guide points out that WPATH SOC-8 does not make testosterone a precondition for chest masculinization, although individual surgeons may set their own rules. For planning, it gives a common stay of 10–14 days, enough for the drains to be withdrawn and the grafted nipples inspected ahead of your return flight.

Nose augmentation (Asian rhinoplasty)

His Thai profile includes เสริมจมูก (nose augmentation), and drsukit.com names nose jobs as one of three focus areas. Augmentation builds up a flat bridge or gives the tip more projection, either with an implant or with the patient's own cartilage. For the hospital as a whole, Yanhee's nose implant page names silicone, Gore-Tex and Medpor as implant options, alongside cartilage harvested from the ear or rib; no page tells us which of these Dr. Sukit prefers. Our rhinoplasty guide notes that implants bring particular risks, such as infection, shifting or extrusion that can mean removal, on top of the risks of any nose operation, among them bleeding, a nose that looks uneven, numb skin, blocked breathing and an outcome that disappoints you. On the usual timeline in that guide, stitches and the external splint are removed at around day 5 to 10, the bulk of the visible swelling fades over 2–3 weeks, and refinement of the tip can continue past 12 months. See also our Asian rhinoplasty page.

Other entries on his Thai profile

His Thai treatment-experience list has three more items: gummy smile correction (แก้ไขปัญหายิ้มเห็นเหงือก), which his website calls smile correction; correction of eye-muscle defects (แก้ไขกล้ามเนื้อตาพิการ); and Botox injections. We have no guides for these. Yanhee's own ptosis pages use a different Thai term, so we do not read the eye-muscle entry as ptosis correction; ask him what it involves before assuming it covers your problem.

Not attributed to him on official pages

• Metoidioplasty: the Pride Center describes it as an alternative to phalloplasty for the genital stage, without naming him for it.
• Hysterectomy and oophorectomy: these sit in Yanhee's Stage 1 and are carried out by gynecologists; the Pride Center lists Dr. Boonchai Thanyalakpark for them.
• Male-to-female surgery: the Pride Center card for Dr. Worapon Ratanalert reads “Expert in Gender Reassignment Surgery (MTF)”.
• Revision of genital surgery done elsewhere: this is mentioned only in patient testimonials on his profile, which we do not count as evidence. If you need a revision, set out your earlier operations in your request.

Most conversations with Dr. Sukit's team begin while you are still at home. Yanhee runs a free online pre-assessment that an international coordinator reviews, and our patient team can relay your questions to the hospital. A plan drawn up from records and photos stays provisional, and only his own examination at Yanhee can confirm it.

Questions about Stage 2 or Stage 3 (urethral lengthening, phalloplasty, scrotoplasty):

• Will you operate on me at Stage 2 and Stage 3, and which Yanhee surgeons handle the chest and hysterectomy stages?
• What interval do you recommend between stages, and how many weeks should I spend in Thailand for each?
• Which arm is used as the donor site, how is that arm covered afterwards, and do you ever use a thigh flap?
• Does prefabricating the urethra on my forearm mean I need hair removal there first, and when should it begin?
• Could I have phalloplasty without urethral lengthening, and how would that change the risks?
• After Stage 3, how long is the inpatient stay, and how long do the catheter and drains stay in?
• If a fistula or stricture appears after I fly home, how is it handled, and what does the package pay for?
• At which stage would a testicular or erectile implant be placed?
• Roughly how many Stage 2 and Stage 3 operations do you carry out in a year, and how often do patients need a revision?
• Which assessment letters and what record of hormone treatment do you need to see?
• Can I have full operation notes in English to give my doctor at home?

Our guides follow WPATH SOC-8. Under it, surgeons generally look for an assessment on record, the ability to give informed consent, health that is under control and, where appropriate and wanted, a period on hormones before phalloplasty. Hospitals apply these criteria in different ways, so confirm Yanhee's exact requirements early.

Questions about chest surgery: which technique fits your chest and skin; whether Dr. Sukit or another Yanhee surgeon will operate; whether you can see results in chests like yours; and how aftercare continues once you are home.

Questions about nose augmentation: whether he favours an implant or cartilage for your nose, which material, and his reasons; whether your own cartilage is suitable; how often he performs your type of augmentation; what the price covers and what a revision would cost; and when it is safe to fly.

Thai and English are the two languages listed on Dr. Sukit's English profile. Yanhee adds interpreting support for overseas patients, starting with registration on the day you arrive.

Dr. Sukit operates at Yanhee's hospital in Bang Phlat: you will find it at 454 Charansanitwong Road Soi 90, within the Bang O subdistrict, postcode 10700. By the hospital's own figure it has 400 beds. Yanhee appears in Joint Commission International's directory as an accredited Hospital Program organisation; the JCI certificate reproduced by Yanhee online is dated 13 March 2026, with expiry on 12 March 2029. HA Thailand, the national accreditor, currently lists no valid accreditation for Yanhee; the hospital's last cycle with HA ended in 2019. The Pride Center, whose FTM team includes Dr. Sukit, describes a service that runs from psychiatric consultation and hormone treatment through surgical planning to aftercare.

Before you fly. Yanhee reviews an online pre-assessment free of charge, and an international coordinator looks at it before you commit to travel. For a fee, Yanhee can arrange rides to and from the airport, hotel and hospital, and its partner hotels give lower rates if you book the room within a Yanhee package.

On admission. Your registration as an overseas patient takes place at the International Counter, which Yanhee places on its first floor. From arrival, a Yanhee interpreter is allocated to you and walks with you between departments; Yanhee says interpreting and translation carry no extra charge, and English-speaking coordinators are stationed around the building. While you are an inpatient, the international liaison team visits every day. Because genital stages involve a longer admission, it is worth knowing that Yanhee helps admitted patients extend their visa if treatment takes longer than planned.

Paying and leaving. Bills can be paid by card (credit or debit), by bank transfer, or in cash in widely traded currencies. At discharge Yanhee hands over three papers: a medical certificate, a document clearing you to fly, and a written summary of your admission. Once home, you keep in touch by email and can send photos for the doctor to review.

Quotes. For most cosmetic operations, Yanhee says, the package price normally bundles the doctor's fee with theatre time, the room, nursing, food and medication. It does not say whether FTM stages are packaged the same way, so request a written quote for each stage that spells out what is included and what you would pay if a complication required more surgery.

Planning the trips. Staged genital surgery is the part of Dr. Sukit's work that needs the most travel planning. As a general figure, our phalloplasty guide suggests a stay of roughly 3–4 weeks for the opening phalloplasty operation, briefer visits afterwards, and several months between operations; ask how Yanhee's Stage 2 and Stage 3 fit that pattern. Keep your return flight flexible, since the surgeon decides when flying is safe, and settle before departure how you will contact Dr. Sukit's team if something goes wrong at home. Our guides give shorter general figures for his other procedure areas: commonly 10–14 days in Thailand after chest surgery and 7–10 days after nose surgery.

Gathering the following in advance saves time with Yanhee. Keep it ready, and share it once the hospital's team asks.

For FTM genital surgery (urethral lengthening, phalloplasty, scrotoplasty):

• A brief history of your gender-affirming care, including when testosterone was started and what you use now.
• Operation notes from earlier surgery, above all chest surgery, hysterectomy and any previous genital operation.
• Assessment or referral letters you already hold, so the team can say whether anything else is needed.
• A list of your health conditions, prescribed and over-the-counter medicines, supplements and allergies, plus your smoking or vaping status.
• How far you have got with forearm hair removal, if you have started.
• What you want from surgery: standing urination, whether implants are part of your plan, and how many trips you can make.
• Forearm or genital photos only when requested, sent by the method the team names.

For chest surgery: notes from any earlier chest operation, your health history and medicines, and chest photos only when asked.

For nose augmentation: front, profile and underside (base) photos taken in even light, and details of previous nose surgery or injury, breathing problems, allergies and medicines.

For every request: your ideal travel dates and how much they can move.