Dr. Uraiwan Tinnungwattana

Dr. Uraiwan Tinnungwattana (Thai: พญ. อุไรวัลย์ ตินนังวัฒนะ) is an ophthalmologist, a medical doctor trained to diagnose and treat diseases of the eye, who works in Bangkok. Official sources connect her with two hospitals in the city:

• [Thainakarin Hospital](/hospital/thainakarin-hospital/), Bang Na. Her profile there describes her as an ophthalmologist (จักษุแพทย์), gives ophthalmology as her specialty and publishes clinic hours for her on Saturdays and Sundays.
• [King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital](/hospital/king-chulalongkorn-memorial-hospital/), Pathumwan. The Thai Red Cross Society operates it, and Chulalongkorn University uses it to train its medical students. Its Department of Ophthalmology, known as Chulalongkorn Eye Center, lists her as a consulting instructor (อาจารย์ผู้ช่วยให้คำปรึกษา) in the Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Ophthalmology Unit.

That Chulalongkorn listing is why her profile is filed under oculoplastic surgery on ThaiCosmeticSurgery.com. Oculoplastic surgery is a subspecialty of eye medicine covering the eyelids, the tear ducts and the bony socket that holds the eye (the orbit). According to the hospital, her unit's remit covers eyelid problems, among them blepharoptosis (an upper lid that droops) and dermatochalasis (surplus eyelid skin), as well as problems with tear drainage, disorders of the orbit and care involving artificial eyes.

Public records show that a large share of her working life has been spent on humanitarian eye care. In news articles from 2022 and 2024, the Thai Red Cross Society describes her as chair of its mobile eye-surgery unit, a project that brings eye operations to people who would otherwise struggle to reach treatment. Thailand's Royal College of Ophthalmologists records ophthalmic pathology as her interest: identifying eye disease by studying tissue under a microscope.

Readers of a cosmetic surgery site should know one thing from the start. None of the official pages we located says that Dr. Uraiwan performs a cosmetic eyelid operation such as double eyelid surgery or cosmetic blepharoplasty, so this profile is not connected to any procedure guide. For an eyelid, tear-duct or other eye problem on which you would like an ophthalmologist's opinion, you can request a consultation with Dr. Uraiwan Tinnungwattana. Our patient team first asks the hospital about her availability and whether your concern falls within the cases she sees.

Her qualifications are published on Thainakarin Hospital's Thai and English profile pages, and both come from the Faculty of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University:

• Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), written แพทยศาสตร์บัณฑิต on the Thai page.
• Certificate in ophthalmology (จักษุวิทยา), shown under the Thai heading วุฒิบัตร and filed under 'Certificates' on the English page.

No year is given for either qualification, and we have not guessed one. We also found no official record of a fellowship in oculoplastic surgery or of postgraduate training outside Thailand. Anyone considering an operation on the eyelids is entitled to ask how much of a doctor's training was spent on eyelid surgery, so raise that with her directly if it matters to your decision.

Her professional listings match that training. She appears as แพทย์หญิง อุไรวัลย์ ตินนังวัฒนะ in the online ophthalmologist search run by RCOPT, Thailand's Royal College of Ophthalmologists, where her entry, checked on 27 September 2026, shows Bangkok and an interest in Ophthalmic Pathology (จักษุพยาธิวิทยา). Thainakarin Hospital adds that she belongs to the Ophthalmological Society of Thailand (สมาคมจักษุวิทยาแห่งประเทศไทย), a membership we have not been able to check against a list published by the society itself.

Her name was missing from the ThPRS membership records we downloaded on 27 September 2026 (ThPRS: Thailand's plastic surgery society). This fits the route by which she came to eyelid work, which runs through ophthalmology rather than through general plastic surgery. King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital itself offers more than one path for eyelid care: the eye department's oculoplastic unit, and a plastic and reconstructive surgery division in the Department of Surgery, where one surgeon's profile lists blepharoplasty. That is why eye doctors holding oculoplastic roles are listed on this site alongside plastic surgeons. Our provider research methodology sets out how we verify degrees, society listings and licence numbers.

Thainakarin Hospital, Bang Na. Thainakarin lists her among its ophthalmologists, with published sessions on Saturday from 08:00 to 15:30 and on Sunday from 13:00 to 16:00; the hospital takes appointments through its call centre on 0-2340-7777. Published timetables can fall out of date, so our patient team checks her sessions with Thainakarin before suggesting a date to you. The photograph on this page is taken from her Thainakarin profile.

Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Ophthalmology Unit, Chulalongkorn Eye Center. The unit (หน่วยจักษุวิทยาตกแต่งและเสริมสร้าง) is part of the Faculty of Medicine's Department of Ophthalmology at Chulalongkorn University, and its clinic is at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. Its web page names her among the clinic's faculty as อ.พญ. อุไรวัลย์ ตินนังวัฒนะ, consulting instructor. We relied on two Internet Archive copies of the unit page, captured in June 2024 and February 2026, and she is listed in both. She has no personal page on the department site and was not in the hospital's archived doctor list, which points to an advisory and teaching role rather than an outpatient clinic running under her own name. The unit publishes a single clinic session, Monday afternoons from 13:00 to 16:00 in the สธ. (Sor Thor) building, 8th floor, and does not say which faculty members attend in a given week. Unit enquiries are listed on 02-256-4000, extension 80902.

Thai Red Cross Society. The Red Cross's own news pages give the fullest picture of her career. On 12 April 2022 it described her as chair of the Red Cross mobile eye-surgery clinic, a project it dates to 1 April 1995. Its Thai and English articles of 8 November 2024 give three roles:

• Special Expert Physician, level 9 (ผู้เชี่ยวชาญพิเศษ นายแพทย์ 9), in the Medical Services Division of the Relief and Community Health Bureau;
• chair of the Thai Red Cross Eye Surgery Project in honour of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, which works as a mobile eye-surgery unit;
• head of the Mobile Eyeglasses Unit, which serves children in remote areas.

According to the English article, the project operates on cataract, glaucoma, pterygium, eyelid conditions and nasolacrimal duct obstruction (blocked tear ducts) for patients who have difficulty reaching care. News from Chulalongkorn's Faculty of Medicine about events in June 2023 and April 2024 also calls her chair of the Red Cross eye-surgery unit. The most recent of these statements dates from November 2024, and we have not seen a newer description of her Red Cross roles.

Ophthalmic plastic surgery society (Thai SOPRS). The Founding Members page of Thailand's society for ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery shows her as a member of its academic committee (คณะกรรมการวิชาการ). Searches of its online member directory under her English and Thai names on 27 September 2026 found nothing, so this profile records a founding role, not a confirmed current membership.

Awards named in official sources. The Thai Red Cross articles of 8 November 2024 report that the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) gave her its 2024 Henry Davison Award, presented in Geneva on 23 October 2024, for service to vulnerable people. Chulalongkorn's Faculty of Medicine reported her among the Medical Council of Thailand's outstanding doctor awardees (แพทย์ดีเด่นแพทยสภา) for Thai year 2557, in the practitioner category, at a ceremony held on 14 November 2016, and among the honourees of the faculty's Medical Icons Award Ceremony on 23 July 2023. These awards relate to public service. They are not evidence about the outcome of any particular operation.

Publications. This profile records three PubMed papers carrying her name:

• *Combined deep topical and superior subconjunctival anesthesia for extracapsular cataract extraction in a rural eye camp*, Anesthesia and Analgesia, 2009. She is first author, and her affiliation is given as the Relief Division of the Thai Red Cross Relief and Community Health Bureau.
• *Prevalence and clinicopathologic findings of conjunctival epithelial neoplasia in pterygia*, Ophthalmology, 2013, as co-author.
• *Epstein-Barr virus-associated leiomyosarcoma of the iris in a child infected with human immunodeficiency virus*, Archives of Ophthalmology, 2003, as co-author.

For the two co-authored papers, PubMed gives only the lead author's affiliation, the Department of Ophthalmology at Chulalongkorn University, and records no separate affiliation for her.

Official sources point to four kinds of work for Dr. Uraiwan Tinnungwattana, and none of them is a menu of cosmetic operations. Each part below explains the area and what it means for a patient thinking of seeing her. What suits your own eyes can only be decided after an examination.

1. General eye care at Thainakarin Hospital. Thainakarin gives her specialty simply as ophthalmology (จักษุวิทยา) and does not list particular treatments. Expect her Thainakarin clinic to work like any eye-specialist appointment: your eyes and lids are examined and you are told whether anything needs treatment. If the appearance of your eyelids is your main worry, mention it in your request. Thainakarin's surgery department lists double-eyelid surgery among its plastic surgery services, so the hospital can tell us whether Dr. Uraiwan or one of those surgeons is the better person for you to see.

2. Oculoplastic and reconstructive ophthalmology. Through her consulting-instructor role she belongs to Chulalongkorn's unit for eyelid, tear-duct and orbital problems. The unit names two eyelid conditions that patients often mix up:

• Blepharoptosis (ptosis), an upper lid that droops. In general, the lid margin itself hangs lower than it should, usually because the muscle that raises the lid is weak or stretched. Trimming skin does not fix this; the lifting mechanism has to be addressed. Surgeons and hospitals whose official pages name that operation are gathered on our ptosis correction page.
• Dermatochalasis, surplus upper-lid skin. In general, the lid margin can sit at a normal height while loose skin hangs over it, making the lid look hooded and sometimes cutting off the top of the field of vision. The usual treatment is upper eyelid surgery, which takes away the extra skin and, in some cases, fat.

The two often occur together, and a sagging brow can add weight to the upper lid. Our general blepharoplasty guide points out that where the brow has dropped, a brow lift may be the more suitable operation. A careful eyelid examination therefore treats the brow, the skin and the height of the lid margin as one picture. The unit page does not name the operations Dr. Uraiwan carries out herself, and we have not linked her to either guide. A consultation with her can give you an ophthalmologist's view of the cause; ask her whether she would do any operation herself or pass you to a colleague.

3. Ophthalmic pathology. RCOPT lists this as her area of interest. In general, the field is about reaching a diagnosis from tissue: a specialist examines under the microscope, for instance, a lump taken from an eyelid or a growth removed from the front of the eye. Two of her recorded papers belong here, one on tissue findings in pterygia (fleshy growths on the clear membrane over the white of the eye) and one on a rare tumour of the iris. If you have an eyelid lump or a growth on the eye that you want assessed, it is reasonable to say so when you request a consultation with her. Only an examination, and a tissue sample where needed, can establish what it is.

4. Red Cross community eye surgery. She chairs the Red Cross mobile eye-surgery unit, which, according to the Red Cross, treats cataract, glaucoma, pterygium, eyelid conditions and blocked tear ducts in people in Thailand who have limited access to care. International private patients cannot book this service, and it is not cosmetic work, but it accounts for most of the surgical work that official sources describe.

Not documented. No official source we found connects Dr. Uraiwan with double eyelid surgery, lower eyelid surgery, brow lifts or other cosmetic facial operations. If one of those is what you want, the pages for double eyelid surgery, lower eyelid surgery and blepharoplasty list the surgeons and hospitals whose official pages name each procedure. Tell our team which one interests you and we can set out those options side by side.

Because her documented work joins general ophthalmology with a place in Chulalongkorn's oculoplastic unit, the main value of seeing Dr. Uraiwan is a diagnosis: what is causing the eyelid or eye problem, and what could be done about it. In general, an eyelid examination measures where the lid margin sits and how strongly the lifting muscle works, judges the amount of loose skin and the position of the brow, and checks the health of the eye surface and your sight. Expect questions about dryness of the eyes, glaucoma, thyroid eye disease and how well you see, since each of these can change whether surgery on the lids is safe for you.

Questions you could bring to her:

• Is the heaviness mainly a low lid margin, surplus skin, a dropped brow, or several of these, and which findings tell you so?
• Would you perform the operation you are suggesting yourself? If not, which surgeon would, and in which hospital?
• Would treatment take place at Thainakarin Hospital or at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, and who would check the result afterwards?
• What type of anaesthesia is planned? For eyelid surgery in general, our guide lists local anaesthesia with sedation or, in some cases, general anaesthesia.
• Are my eyes dry at the moment, and could the operation make them drier?
• For a drooping lid, how do you decide the final height, and what can be done if the two sides end up uneven?
• If anything is removed, such as a lump, will it go for pathology, and how will the report reach me after I have left Thailand?
• What length of stay in Thailand should I plan for? In general, our eyelid surgery guide gives 5–7 days, enough for stitch removal and a wound check, though the surgeon makes the final call.
• Whom should I call if I develop strong eye pain or my vision changes once I am back home?

Other concerns call for other questions. For an eye that waters or discharges, possibly because of a blocked tear duct, or for a lump on the lid or on the surface of the eye, ask which tests will confirm the cause, whether treatment can be completed within a short stay, and what follow-up will be needed. Photographs alone cannot settle these points; an examination is needed.

In general: healing and risks after eyelid surgery. Our eyelid surgery guide sets out the usual course. For the first 2–3 days the lids are typically swollen and bruised. Stitch removal tends to fall at about day 5–7, the bruises largely fade within 1–2 weeks, and lid shape and scars go on maturing over weeks to months. The guide's list of possible problems runs from the more common to the rare: eyes that feel dry or irritated; vision that stays blurred for a while; lids that do not close completely; a difference between the two sides; scars that remain visible; a lower lid that pulls away from the eye; infection; and, on very rare occasions, a bleed behind the eye that endangers sight. Any loss of vision, or severe pain, following an eyelid operation is an emergency: get help straight away. Whether any operation is suitable for you needs an individual assessment.

Thainakarin and King Chulalongkorn Memorial are in different districts of Bangkok, so check which hospital your appointment is at before you choose a hotel.

[Thainakarin Hospital](/hospital/thainakarin-hospital/): 345 Debaratna Rd., Km 3.5, Bangna Nuea, Bangna, Bangkok 10260. According to Thainakarin, an international patient desk and an International Department coordinate care for visitors from other countries, in Thai, English, Chinese, Arabic, Bengali, Khmer and Myanmar. Dr. Uraiwan's own profile gives Thai and English as hers. Her weekend sessions may fit a short visit, but have them confirmed before you travel. This profile shows no accreditation for Thainakarin, because we have not yet found one in an accreditor's own database or in a dated, current statement from the hospital.

[King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital](/hospital/king-chulalongkorn-memorial-hospital/) stands on Rama 4 Road in Pathumwan (number 1873, Bangkok 10330). Run by the Thai Red Cross Society, it opened on 30 May 1914 according to its official history, and Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Medicine teaches there. In the database of HA Thailand, the country's hospital accreditation body, its Advanced Hospital Accreditation was re-awarded on 23 May 2025 and runs until 22 May 2029. The hospital website has an English version, but we did not find an official description of services for foreign patients such as an international centre, interpreters or airport pick-up. Dr. Uraiwan has no personal appointment listing there, so expect our team to need longer to find out whether, and how, she could see you at this hospital.

In general: planning an eyelid-surgery trip. Should a consultation lead to eyelid surgery, our eyelid surgery guide suggests allowing about 5–7 days in Thailand. Pick a return flight you can change, because the go-ahead to fly comes from your surgeon. Pack sunglasses, keep out of swimming pools and leave off eye make-up until your surgeon says otherwise, and ask which eye drops to use on the plane. Before leaving, request a written report of the diagnosis, any surgery and any pathology findings, so that your eye doctor at home can continue your care.

Each hospital, not ThaiCosmeticSurgery.com, is responsible for its own medical care, fees and patient services.

Good information lets the hospital judge whether Dr. Uraiwan is the right doctor for you and how long your appointment needs to be. Keep medical records and photos to yourself until the hospital's team asks to see them; at that point, send them solely via our request form or our WhatsApp line.

• The problem in your own words: a drooping lid, heavy or hooded upper lids, a lump, a watering eye, an issue following previous eyelid surgery, or a routine eye check.
• When it started and whether it is getting worse. For a drooping lid, say whether it came on slowly or suddenly and whether it changes over the course of the day; for a lump, say when you first saw it and whether it has changed in size.
• Photos, if the hospital asks: well-lit, straight-on photos of both eyes at eye level, with no make-up or glasses, eyes open and looking forward. You may also be asked for photos with the eyes looking upwards and gently closed. An older photo of your face, taken before the change, can show how much the lids have altered.
• Eye history: your current glasses or contact-lens prescription; any diagnosed eye condition (for example glaucoma, a dry-eye problem or thyroid eye disease); and past eye surgery, including laser vision correction or earlier eyelid operations, with copies of operation notes where available.
• Previous results, such as a biopsy or pathology report on an eyelid lump.
• Overall health: other medical conditions, all medicines and supplements (blood thinners in particular) and any allergies.
• Practical details: dates that suit you, which of her two hospitals you prefer, and your preferred language for the consultation.
• Your own questions, so the appointment covers what you most want to know.

In general, a lid that droops suddenly, particularly together with double vision, a severe headache or a pupil that looks different, needs urgent assessment by a doctor near you rather than a planned consultation in another country.