Dr. Thiti Chaovanalikit

Dr. Thiti Chaovanalikit (Thai: นพ. ธิติ เชาวนลิขิต) is a Thai plastic surgeon with a weekly outpatient clinic at Bumrungrad International Hospital, a private hospital on Soi Nana Nua (Sukhumvit Soi 3) in Bangkok's Watthana district. He consults within the hospital's Plastic (Cosmetic) Surgery Center, whose counter is up on level 16 of Building A, and that centre includes him on its published surgeon list. Bumrungrad files his specialty under Plastic Cosmetic & Reconstructive Surgery, which its Thai-language site renders as ศัลยศาสตร์ตกแต่ง. More about the city itself is on our Bangkok page.

He qualified in medicine with honours in 1992, graduating from Mahidol University's Siriraj Hospital medical faculty. He later earned two Thai specialist board diplomas, the first in surgery in 1999 and the second in plastic surgery in 2000. His name is on the ThPRS membership roll, and his Bumrungrad profile says he consults in Thai and English.

Most of what is publicly recorded about his work comes from a second hospital in the city. Lerdsin Hospital, run by the Ministry of Public Health on Silom Road, is the affiliation printed on three research papers he wrote or co-wrote between 2018 and 2022, which describe him as a plastic surgeon in its plastic and reconstructive surgery unit. A surgical outpatient timetable from Lerdsin, saved by an internet archive in May 2025 under a 2025 file name, still shows him in the Wednesday plastic surgery clinic there. The papers cover quality of life after gender confirmation surgery among Thai transgender women, a vaginoplasty technique that uses a flap of peritoneum, and a scoring method that may help predict whether diabetic foot ulcers heal.

What is not documented. Dr. Thiti's Bumrungrad profile leaves the special-interests field blank and mentions no individual operations, and its medical experience and publications sections are empty. We have not found any other official page setting out the procedures he performs. For that reason this profile does not connect him to particular procedures; the services of the Plastic Surgery Center belong to the centre as a whole, not to each surgeon in it. If you request a consultation with Dr. Thiti Chaovanalikit, our patient team first asks the hospital whether the operation you are interested in is one he carries out.

The qualifications below are taken from Dr. Thiti's English- and Thai-language profiles on Bumrungrad's website, both re-read on 27 September 2026. Because the Thai version gives years in the Buddhist Era (B.E.), which is 543 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar, each entry shows both years.

Medical degree with honours, 1992 (B.E. 2535). The degree, แพทยศาสตรบัณฑิต (doctor of medicine), was conferred by Mahidol University after his studies at its Siriraj Hospital faculty. Bumrungrad's English page simply notes honours; the Thai page adds the qualifier เกียรตินิยมอันดับ 2, which means second-class honours.

Surgery board diploma, 1999 (B.E. 2542). Surgery came first: Bumrungrad's English page lists a Thai Board of Surgery diploma dated 1999, and the Thai page records the same award under B.E. 2542.

Plastic surgery board diploma, 2000 (B.E. 2543). A year after the surgery board he completed specialist certification in plastic surgery, which Bumrungrad records as a Thai Board diploma in that field.

In general, a วุฒิบัตร, the Thai term behind these English titles, is a specialist certificate that a doctor in Thailand receives after completing recognised residency training and then passing that specialty's board examination. Put simply, Dr. Thiti holds Thai specialist certification both in surgery and in plastic surgery. No fellowship, overseas training or academic rank appears on either Bumrungrad profile, and the hospital uses the plain title 'Dr.' for him.

Professional societies

• ThPRS. The plastic and reconstructive surgeons' society posted his member entry on 27 November 2019, with his surname spelt 'Chowwanalikit'. That entry named two workplaces: the plastic surgery department of Lerdsin Hospital and Asoke Skin Hospital.
• ThSAPS. His name is on an archived February 2020 copy of an online directory of aesthetic plastic surgeons, formerly hosted on surgery.or.th by the aesthetic plastic surgeons' society ThSAPS. That directory is no longer online and our searches turned up no current public member list, so whether he remained a member after 2020 is unconfirmed.

Medical licence

The ThPRS entry records his Medical Council of Thailand licence number as 17586. The number appears here as ThPRS reports it; it can be looked up on the Medical Council of Thailand's public register at checkmd.tmc.or.th. You are welcome to try the lookup yourself with his Thai name, ธิติ เชาวนลิขิต. Our research methodology page explains how sources are chosen and how each kind of fact is labelled.

Bumrungrad International Hospital (current). Bumrungrad lists Dr. Thiti as a plastic surgeon in its Plastic Surgery Center, where his clinic code is 16A (Building A, 16th floor). The doctor timetable we viewed on 27 September 2026 gave him a single weekly outpatient session, Wednesday from 16:00 to 19:00, which is the session to aim for if you want to meet him in person. Timetables are revised from time to time, and outpatient hours do not show which days he operates, so our patient team rechecks his schedule each time a patient asks for him.

The centre around his clinic offers more than any one surgeon's practice. Bumrungrad describes it as covering cosmetic surgery, reconstructive surgery and hair transplantation. It is open Monday to Friday from 8.30 to 20.00 and at weekends from 8.00 to 17.00; seeing a doctor there requires an appointment. The centre's web page names 22 surgeons in total.

Lerdsin Hospital (documented up to 2025). Lerdsin is a public hospital of Thailand's Ministry of Public Health, located on Silom Road in Bang Rak, Bangkok. On his papers published in 2018, 2020 and 2022, Dr. Thiti's affiliation is given as the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit in Lerdsin's Department of Surgery (the 2018 paper words it 'Plastic Surgeon, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery'). His 2019 ThPRS entry also names Lerdsin's plastic surgery department (ฝ่ายศัลยกรรมตกแต่ง). The latest trace is an outpatient schedule image from the hospital's surgery pages, captured by the Wayback Machine on 4 May 2025; its file name marks it as the 2025 schedule, and it places him in the plastic surgery row on Wednesdays. On that image his surname reads ชาวนลิขิต, with the initial vowel sign เ missing. We treat this as a typing error, since his first name, the plastic surgery row and his years of Lerdsin affiliation are all consistent with him. Whether he still holds that clinic is best checked with the hospital.

Asoke Skin Hospital (2019 listing only). The same ThPRS entry lists Asoke Skin Hospital (โรงพยาบาลผิวหนัง อโศก) in Bangkok. When we checked the doctor list for its Asoke branch on 27 September 2026, it named dermatologists only and he was not among them, so this is not treated as a current post.

Published research. Three PubMed records list Dr. Thiti as an author with a plastic surgery affiliation at Lerdsin:

• *Quality of Life, Self-Esteem, and Depression Among Thai Transgender Women Before and After Male-to-Female Gender Confirmation Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Observational Study*, in Sexual Medicine (2022). He is its first author, and his two co-authors are also from Lerdsin's Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit. The study included 41 Thai transgender women, and its study period ran from January 2018 to December 2020.
• A 2020 case report in Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery on vaginoplasty using a pedicled flap of peritoneum in male-to-female gender affirmation surgery, on which he is a co-author.
• *An MMP/TIMP ratio scoring system as a potential predictive marker of diabetic foot ulcer healing*, in the Journal of Wound Care (2018).

His surname is written Chaovanalikit by Bumrungrad and PubMed but Chowwanalikit on the ThPRS entry. In Thai script, เชาวนลิขิต is spelt identically on Bumrungrad's Thai page and in both society listings.

Patients generally want to know which operations a surgeon actually does. In Dr. Thiti's case three kinds of evidence exist: the specialty Bumrungrad gives him, the services of the centre that hosts his clinic, and the topics of his published papers. None of the three tells us which operations he personally performs, so each part below finishes with the point to confirm.

1. Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery at Bumrungrad's Plastic Surgery Center

The label Plastic Cosmetic & Reconstructive Surgery covers both aesthetic and restorative work. The centre where he consults lists the cosmetic procedures below; each link leads to our general guide to that procedure, not to a service confirmed for him:

• Face: facelift, brow lift, eyelid surgery, rhinoplasty (augmentation and reduction), chin augmentation, facial implants such as cheek augmentation, and ear surgery
• Breast and chest: breast lift, breast augmentation and breast reduction, plus gynecomastia surgery for enlarged male breast tissue
• Body: tummy tuck, liposuction and HD liposuction
• Hair: hair transplantation

Its reconstructive services include hand surgery, reconstruction following cancer treatment, breast reconstruction, reconstruction for children, and facial bone and maxillofacial reconstruction.

*What to confirm:* whether Dr. Thiti himself performs your procedure. His profile names no special interests, so the centre's list cannot be treated as his personal list. If the operation you want is not one he does, our team can point you to Bumrungrad surgeons whose official profiles include it.

2. Gender-affirming surgery: researched, not listed as a service

Two of his three papers relate to gender-affirming surgery for transgender women, and both came out of his work at Lerdsin Hospital. As first author of a prospective study in *Sexual Medicine* (2022), he looked at quality of life, self-esteem and depression in 41 Thai transgender women before and after gender confirmation surgery. He is also among the authors of a 2020 case report describing a pedicled peritoneal flap vaginoplasty.

As general background, vaginoplasty is the operation that forms a vagina, together with a clitoris and labia, for transgender women. In peritoneal vaginoplasty, part of the canal is lined with peritoneum, the thin membrane that lines the abdomen; 'pedicled' means the flap stays connected to its own blood supply while it is moved into position. Like any major operation it carries risks, and whether a given technique suits a particular person is something only a surgeon's individual assessment can settle. A case report describes the operation of an individual patient, so it shows that he was involved with the technique, not how often he uses it.

What the record does not show is that he offers gender-affirming surgery to patients now. At Bumrungrad, gender-affirming operations are organised by the Pride Clinic, whose feminizing surgery list includes three vaginoplasty techniques, namely penile peritoneal vagina, colon graft and penile skin graft. Four surgeons appear there under the heading 'Transgender Plastic Surgeons', and Dr. Thiti is not one of them. *What to confirm:* if you would like to talk to him about vaginoplasty, ask our patient team to establish whether he offers it, at which hospital and through which clinic, before you make travel plans.

3. Wound-healing research

His 2018 paper in the *Journal of Wound Care* tested a scoring system built on the balance between matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and the tissue inhibitors that regulate them (TIMPs), as a possible way to predict whether a diabetic foot ulcer will heal. That work sits closer to reconstructive than to cosmetic plastic surgery. It is research, not a clinical service listed for him: Bumrungrad has a separate Holistic Wound Care Center, and nothing we found connects him to it.

Dr. Thiti's public profile is brief, so the consultation is where the missing detail has to come from. The questions below begin with the gaps in his record and then turn to the operation itself. Many patients find it helpful to note the answers, or ask for them in writing, so they can set them beside the advice of any other surgeon they see.

About his practice

• Do you perform this procedure yourself, and in which hospital would the operation be done?
• About how many of these operations do you carry out? No case numbers are published for him, so it is reasonable to ask.
• Your Bumrungrad clinic runs on Wednesday afternoons. If I need a check before my flight home, can I be seen on another day, and who covers for you when you are away?
• At which other hospitals or clinics do you currently see patients?

About the operation

• Which technique would you recommend for me, and why that one over the alternatives?
• Which risks are most relevant to me, how would a complication be managed, and what would happen if a revision were needed?
• What type of anaesthesia would I have, who would give it, and how many nights would I stay in hospital?
• What does the written estimate cover: your fee, anaesthesia, theatre, hospital nights, medicines, compression garments and follow-up visits?
• How long should I stay in Bangkok after surgery, and who decides when I am fit to fly?
• What follow-up is possible once I am home, and can I have my operation notes in English for my own doctor?

If you are asking about gender-affirming surgery

• Do you perform vaginoplasty yourself, and would it be arranged through Bumrungrad's Pride Clinic or at another hospital?
• Which techniques do you use, and which would fit my anatomy and my goals?
• Which assessment letters and how long a hormone history do you ask for, and which edition of the WPATH Standards of Care guides your practice?
• Should I have permanent hair removal before surgery, and how far in advance should it start?

If your concern is reconstructive

• Is this treated in Bumrungrad's Plastic Surgery Center, or would another department take part?
• Which earlier operation notes, scans or reports would you like to see before giving advice?

Dr. Thiti's Bumrungrad profile lists English as one of his languages, so a consultation in English should be possible without an interpreter. Beyond those two languages, Bumrungrad's factsheet mentions a pool of over 130 interpreters. Its patient services page names languages including Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Vietnamese; Spanish, Italian, Turkish and several others can be requested specially, depending on availability.

Services Bumrungrad describes for patients travelling from abroad:

• Medical Coordination Office (Building A, level 10). This complimentary service is staffed by coordination doctors and nurses. Ahead of your trip, its staff can look over your records, prepare cost estimates, schedule appointments or telemedicine and correspond with insurers or embassies; when you are discharged, it prepares the medical report you take home, confirms in writing that you can fly and sets up aftercare.
• Help in your own language. Bumrungrad's Cultural Support Officers work with overseas patients who would find another language easier than English. Its Cultural Helpdesks, open 08:00–18:00 on the Sky Lobby level (10th floor) of the BI Clinic Building, handle coordination, escorts, language support and concierge requests.
• Arriving by air. An airport representative works from Exit C, Gate 9 of Suvarnabhumi's International Arrival Hall, daily between 07:00 and 23:00. Complimentary shuttle vans leave Suvarnabhumi hourly for the hospital or nearby hotels, though departures depend on passenger numbers.
• Getting around. A complimentary van links the hospital to BTS Nana and BTS Phrom Phong, seven days a week.
• Visas and bookings. Bumrungrad's Business Center can arrange visa extensions, in coordination with the Bangkok Immigration Office, both for patients and for anyone accompanying them. It also books hotels, domestic and international flights, and transport to the airport or elsewhere.
• Remote consultation. Tele-consultation with a doctor appears among the Plastic Surgery Center's listed services, though that does not tell us whether Dr. Thiti himself offers it.

Accreditation and facilities. Our checks on 27 September 2026 found Bumrungrad listed by Joint Commission International as accredited under its Hospital Program, with a first accreditation date of 2 February 2002. HA Thailand's status search showed an Advanced Hospital Accreditation (re-accreditation) running to 22 May 2029, and the Global Healthcare Accreditation directory has listed the hospital since 20 September 2017. Bumrungrad's factsheet gives its size as 580 inpatient beds, with 40 operating theatres.

Timing a visit around his clinic. His only published outpatient session at Bumrungrad is on Wednesday, 16:00–19:00. If you are travelling for a face-to-face consultation, land before a Wednesday and leave a free day in your plans in case the session moves. If you would rather discuss your case before booking flights, ask for an online consultation first; we will ask Bumrungrad whether he offers one.

Lerdsin Hospital. Ask our patient team about international patient services at Lerdsin Hospital. Consultation requests made through our patient team are therefore arranged at Bumrungrad, where his clinic is confirmed.

It helps to have the details below ready when you get in touch. Hold back photographs and medical records until the surgeon's team requests them, and at that point use the booking form or our WhatsApp chat to share them.

For every request

• The change you have in mind, or the problem you would like Dr. Thiti to look at, described in your own words
• Your overall health, any long-term conditions, past operations, current medicines and supplements, and allergies
• Any smoking, vaping or other nicotine use
• Records of any past operation on the area concerned, including what was done and when
• Your possible travel dates (his published Bumrungrad clinic is on Wednesdays) and your preference between meeting online and meeting in person
• The language you would like to use: Thai and English are documented for him, and Bumrungrad can arrange interpreters for many other languages

Photographs

• Face (for example nose, eyelids, chin or signs of ageing): a front view, each side in profile and each three-quarter angle, photographed in even daylight with hair pulled back and without make-up or glasses
• Breasts, chest or body: front, side and three-quarter views, standing against a plain background, framed only as far as you are comfortable sharing
• Scars or reconstructive concerns: one close-up and one wider shot that shows where on the body the area is

If you are asking about gender-affirming surgery

Prepare the letters from the health professionals who have assessed you, a summary of your hormone treatment (which medicines, and since when) and details of any hair removal you have already had. Requirements vary from surgeon to surgeon, so the team will tell you exactly what is needed once it is known whether Dr. Thiti offers the operation.

If your question is reconstructive

Collect your operation notes, any relevant scan or pathology reports (for example after cancer treatment) and a list of the treatments you have had so far. Since Thai and English are his documented languages, documents in either are likely to be the simplest for him to review.