Dr. Wichai Surawongsin

Dr. Wichai Surawongsin (Thai: นพ. วิชัย สุรวงษ์สิน) is a plastic surgeon who practises at Kamol Cosmetic Hospital, a cosmetic surgery hospital on Lat Phrao 94 (Inthraphon Road) in the Wang Thonglang district of Bangkok. Kamol's own profile of him says his work has a strong focus on gender-affirming surgery, especially male-to-female gender reassignment surgery (GRS, also written SRS), and describes him as a long-standing member of the hospital's gender surgery team, working alongside its chief plastic surgeon, Dr. Kamol Pansritum.

The areas of expertise the hospital lists for him are:

• Male-to-female sex reassignment surgery (SRS)
• Feminizing genital surgery techniques
• Aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgery
• Long-term transgender patient care

On our site that becomes one documented procedure: vaginoplasty, the operation that creates a vagina, clitoris and labia. His profile does not say which vaginoplasty technique he uses, so we have not tied him to penile inversion, peritoneal or colon vaginoplasty individually. Nor do we link him to named cosmetic operations, because none are listed for him.

The hospital lists two Thai specialist boards for him: general surgery first, then plastic surgery. His specialty is also confirmed away from Kamol's own pages. ThPRS, Thailand's professional society for plastic and reconstructive surgeons, includes him in its public list of members, an entry we opened ourselves, and Chulalongkorn University's plastic surgery division names him among its former trainees.

Some things a patient might look for are not published anywhere we could verify: the languages he speaks, how many years he has practised or how many operations he has performed, and his entry on the Medical Council of Thailand register (see the training section below). We say so plainly rather than fill the gaps.

To speak with him, request a consultation with Dr. Wichai Surawongsin. Our patient team passes your request to Kamol Cosmetic Hospital and comes back to you once the hospital has confirmed availability; nothing is booked until then.

Kamol Cosmetic Hospital publishes Dr. Wichai's education on both its English and its Thai profile pages, and the two versions agree (the Thai page gives the Buddhist-era years 2538, 2539 and 2546). Put together with the Chulalongkorn alumni record, his published training runs as follows:

• 1995: Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Remedios Medical College, the Philippines. We give the school name exactly as the hospital prints it; its full official name is not something we could verify.
• 1996: Thai Board of General Surgery, listed with Mahidol University.
• Plastic surgery training, Chulalongkorn University. The university's plastic and reconstructive surgery division (CUPS) names him on its alumni page as part of its 14th class (รุ่นที่ 14). That page does not state the years he trained.
• 2003: Thai Board of Plastic Surgery, listed with Chulalongkorn University.

Read together, the record shows a general surgery qualification first and a plastic surgery qualification later. For a patient, the useful point is that his plastic surgery training is confirmed by two separate parties: the hospital that lists him as a surgeon and the university division that trained him. The published record places his general surgery board just one year after his medical degree; we reproduce the years exactly as the hospital publishes them, and if a particular date matters to you, Kamol can confirm it.

Licence check. The Medical Council of Thailand keeps the public register of doctors licensed to practise in Thailand. No licence number appears on his ThPRS directory entry; the licence can be looked up on the Medical Council of Thailand's public register at checkmd.tmc.or.th. You can search the register yourself with his Thai name, วิชัย สุรวงษ์สิน, or ask Kamol for his licence number before you commit to surgery. Our provider research methodology explains how we check and date credentials.

Publications. A PubMed search for his surname returned only other authors, so we list no research publications for him. That means there is no published body of work to review; it is not a judgement about his clinical practice.

Kamol Cosmetic Hospital, Bangkok (current). Kamol lists Dr. Wichai as a plastic surgeon, one of seven plastic surgeons in its doctors directory; the others are listed on our Kamol Cosmetic Hospital profile. His hospital profile calls him a long-standing member of the gender surgery team working with Dr. Kamol Pansritum. It also mentions his experience in years, but the English and Thai versions give different figures, and the large patient number it quotes is credited to the team rather than to him, so we repeat neither. If the number of vaginoplasties he personally performs each year matters to you, and our vaginoplasty guide suggests it should, ask him directly at consultation.

Pranangklao Hospital, Nonthaburi (status unconfirmed). His ThPRS member entry, posted in 2019, gives two workplace addresses: the Plastic Surgery Unit (หน่วยศัลยศาสตร์ตกแต่ง) at Pranangklao Hospital (โรงพยาบาลพระนั่งเกล้า) in Nonthaburi province, and Kamol Cosmetic Hospital. Chulalongkorn's alumni page likewise gives the Department of Surgery at Pranangklao Hospital as his address. We could not reach Pranangklao Hospital's own website to confirm whether he still works there, so we record it as a role of unconfirmed status, not as a place to book. Requests made through our site go to Kamol Cosmetic Hospital.

The wider team at Kamol. Kamol presents male-to-female genital surgery as team work. Besides its plastic surgeons, the hospital's doctors directory places several other specialists on its gender-affirming surgery team, including:

• colorectal surgeon Dr. Charnjiroj Thiptanakit, described as a consultant in sigmoid colon and peritoneal vaginoplasty
• colorectal surgeon Dr. Kasidin Vitoopinyoparb, who prepares the colon graft laparoscopically for colon vaginoplasty
• paediatric surgeon Dr. Danai Meekaewkunchorn, who performs the open colon technique
• urologist Dr. Ravis Tivitmahaisoon

For you, this means it is worth asking who will be in the operating room for your technique, what each person does, and who is responsible for your follow-up.

Societies and professional bodies

• ThPRS, the society that plastic and reconstructive surgeons in Thailand belong to: we confirmed his listing on its public member directory, which by the society's own description contains members only.
• ThSAPS, the Thai society for aesthetic plastic surgery: membership claimed on his Kamol profile; ThSAPS publishes no member list we could check.
• The Medical Association of Thailand: stated on the Kamol profile.
• Royal College of Family Physicians of Thailand: stated on both the English and the Thai Kamol profiles.
• Thai Medical Council: stated on the Kamol profile (see the licence note in the training section).

Vaginoplasty: male-to-female genital surgery (SRS/GRS)

This is the procedure Kamol's profile puts at the centre of Dr. Wichai's work, described there as male-to-female sex reassignment surgery and as feminizing genital surgery techniques. As general background, vaginoplasty builds a vaginal canal, a clitoris and labia, and in most cases the testes are removed (orchiectomy) during the same operation. It is performed under general anaesthesia; operating time is commonly three to six hours, and a hospital stay of five to seven nights is typical.

Kamol's service pages set out a range of versions of the operation. Those pages describe the hospital's menu, not Dr. Wichai's personal caseload, and nothing on his profile tells us which of them he performs:

• Shallow-depth surgery, which Kamol calls SRS I and our site covers as vulvoplasty: the external genitals are created without a deep canal, so there is no lifelong dilation routine.
• Penile inversion vaginoplasty, Kamol's SRS II and in general the most established technique, lines the canal with penile skin, often topped up with skin grafts taken from the scrotum.
• Peritoneal vaginoplasty uses peritoneum, the membrane lining the abdomen, to form part of the canal.
• Colon (sigmoid) vaginoplasty, which Kamol performs by both open and laparoscopic routes, uses a segment of bowel. Surgeons generally hold it back for specific circumstances, for instance a revision or a shortage of skin.
• Revision vaginoplasty for people who have already had genital surgery.

Choosing among these turns on your anatomy, what you want from surgery and the operating surgeon's experience. That makes the first practical question for Dr. Wichai a simple one: which of these operations does he carry out himself, and which would he pass to colleagues in the team?

Points to understand before you consult him about vaginoplasty (general guidance; suitability always needs an individual assessment, and Dr. Wichai may apply it differently):

• Eligibility. Thai surgeons generally work to international guidance such as the WPATH Standards of Care, Version 8. For genital surgery that usually means a documented assessment by a qualified health professional, capacity to consent, and physical and mental health that are reasonably well managed. SOC-8 also proposes hormone treatment for a minimum of six months beforehand, unless hormones would be medically inadvisable for that person or are not part of what they want. Some surgeons still ask for two letters. Dr. Wichai has not published his own criteria, so request them in writing.
• Hair removal. Hair can grow inside the new canal if the skin used to line it still has follicles. For that reason, many surgeons advise or insist on permanent hair removal of the donor area, by electrolysis or laser, before the operation. Finishing it can take several months, so bring it up at first contact, long before you look at flights.
• Length of stay. In general, expect to spend about three to four weeks in Thailand. At Kamol, patients leaving the ward continue their recovery at K Garden, the hospital's nearby serviced apartments. Kamol's recovery page says that for male-to-female genital surgery patients, specialist nurses handle dressings and dilation there twice daily.
• Dilation. Dilation starts in hospital with staff guiding you. In the first months it is done several times a day, then gradually less often, but most people need to keep it up indefinitely to preserve the depth and width of the canal.
• Work and daily life. Office-based work is often possible from around six to eight weeks. Heavy lifting and sexual intercourse generally wait longer; your surgeon will tell you when.
• Risks. Recognised complications include bleeding and infection, slow-healing wounds, urinary trouble (spraying, or a narrowed opening), a canal that loses depth or tightens, and changes in sensation. Rarely, a rectovaginal fistula forms, a passage between the new vagina and the rectum, and this is a serious complication. Some patients later opt for a secondary operation, for example to refine the labia. Ask Dr. Wichai for his personal complication and revision figures.

Long-term transgender patient care

Long-term transgender patient care is also listed among Dr. Wichai's areas of expertise. Kamol does not explain what that care involves, so treat it as a topic to explore at consultation rather than as a defined service. If you are travelling from abroad, the useful questions are what follow-up he provides after you return home, how you would reach his team if a problem arose months later, and whether your operation notes will be handed over in English so your own doctors can read them.

Aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgery

His profile also mentions aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgery, but only in general terms and without naming any operation, so we do not attach specific cosmetic procedures to his name. Kamol Cosmetic Hospital as a whole offers feminizing operations that some patients plan around genital surgery, such as facial feminization surgery, gender-affirming breast augmentation and a tracheal shave. For any of these, our patient team can find out whether Dr. Wichai does it or which Kamol surgeon would.

Your first consultation can take place online or face to face in Bangkok; Kamol runs secure video appointments with its surgeons for anyone not yet ready or able to fly to Thailand. Either way, this is the meeting where you learn whether Dr. Wichai will operate on you and how he would approach it. Questions to bring:

The operation itself

• Which vaginoplasty techniques do you perform personally, and which would you advise for my anatomy and goals? What is your reasoning?
• If peritoneal or colon vaginoplasty is on the table, which other Kamol surgeons join the operation, and what part does each play?
• Will you operate from start to finish, and will you be the one who sees me at check-ups?
• In my case, would orchiectomy be done during the same operation?
• Roughly how many vaginoplasties do you do annually, and what share of your patients have complications or go on to revision surgery?

Eligibility and getting ready

• Which assessments or letters do you need from me, and in what format?
• How long should I have been taking hormones, and do I need to change or stop them around the operation?
• Is hair removal required, over which area, and by when should it be complete?
• Could any of my health conditions or medicines alter the plan or the timing?

Recovery

• How many nights will I be on the ward, and at what point do I move to K Garden?
• How often will I dilate in the early weeks, how does that change later, and are dilators provided?
• What do you need to see before you clear me to fly home, and when is that likely?
• If something goes wrong after I am home, who do I contact, and what is the process?

Plan and price

• What does the quote cover: nights in hospital, anaesthesia, pre-operative tests, dilators, medicines, accommodation support and follow-up visits?
• What could make the price go up, such as a change of technique or a secondary procedure?

As a rule, no surgeon can fix the technique or a final plan before examining you in person, so what comes out of an online consultation is normally a provisional plan that is finalised in Bangkok. For the factors that change the price of genital surgery, see our cost guides and the cost notes in the vaginoplasty guide.

Because Dr. Wichai operates at Kamol Cosmetic Hospital, the logistics of your trip run through that hospital. What follows is drawn from Kamol's published information and, for accreditation, from the accreditor's own directory. These services are the hospital's, not ThaiCosmeticSurgery.com's.

Where it is. Give taxi drivers or map apps this: house number 1223 in Lat Phrao 94, Inthraphon Rd., with Wang Thonglang as the district and 10310 as the postcode. Directions and details of the neighbourhood are on our Kamol Cosmetic Hospital profile.

Accreditation. Kamol Cosmetic Hospital showed as accredited in the directory of Joint Commission International (JCI) on the day we looked, 27 September 2026, and no expiry date is displayed there. HA Thailand's accreditation search, by contrast, returned nothing for the hospital.

Inside the hospital. Kamol says the building was designed specifically for complex aesthetic and gender-affirming operations. Surgery takes place on the fourth floor, where the theatres include a microsurgery room and an endoscopic suite (seven operating rooms, according to the Thai-language facilities page), with an 11-bed monitored recovery room alongside. Inpatients stay on the fifth and sixth floors, arranged around a central nurse station; standard rooms measure 26 sqm and VIP rooms 52 sqm. The seventh floor holds medical residence apartments for recovery stays. Registration, consultation rooms and minor surgical facilities share the third floor, and the second floor is given over to a wellness and diagnostic centre with ECG, cardiac stress testing, ultrasound, X-ray and an on-site laboratory.

What Kamol arranges for visitors from overseas

• Ahead of the trip: if coming to Bangkok is not yet possible, a surgeon can see you by video; a personal representative is allocated to manage each consultation request; and a phone line for international callers takes routine and urgent enquiries.
• Getting there and staying: assistance arranging hotels and airport pick-ups, plus a limousine to the airport on the day you leave.
• Language: English and Thai as standard; for any other language Kamol can bring in an interpreter on request.
• Visa: the hospital states it can extend a medical treatment visa.
• Leaving the ward: recovery continues at K Garden, the serviced apartments Kamol offers close by. Wound dressings, stitch removal and surgeon follow-up happen there, and male-to-female genital surgery patients have specialist nurses help with dressings and dilation two times a day.
• Paying: cash in Thai baht, US, Canadian or Australian dollars, euros or British pounds; credit and debit cards; or a bank transfer.

Language at consultation. Which languages Dr. Wichai speaks is not stated on any official page we checked. The hospital's team works in English and Thai, so if you need another language, mention it in your request and ask Kamol to book an interpreter ahead of the consultation.

Trip length and flights. For vaginoplasty, set aside roughly three to four weeks in Thailand and book a return flight whose date can be moved, because recovery varies and it is the surgeon who decides when flying is safe. Plenty of patients bring someone with them. Before you fly out of Bangkok, collect your operation notes in English and agree a follow-up arrangement for when you are home.

Giving Kamol's team clear information at first contact helps them judge whether Dr. Wichai is the right surgeon for you and what else they will need. Keep your notes short and factual:

• What you are hoping for. Vaginoplasty, and whether you are leaning towards a full-depth canal, shallow-depth surgery (vulvoplasty) or revision of an earlier operation. Being undecided is fine; the consultation exists to help you choose.
• Hormones and care to date. Whether you take hormones now, the names of the medicines, the date you started and the prescribing doctor.
• Letters. Any assessment or referral letters already in your hands, as copies. If you have none yet, say so and ask Kamol what it needs.
• Hair removal progress. How many electrolysis or laser sessions you have had on the genital area, and how many more you expect to need.
• Health background. Current health conditions, past operations (particularly genital or abdominal surgery, including any previous orchiectomy), regular medicines, allergies and any earlier reaction to anaesthesia.
• Records from a previous surgeon. For a revision, the operation notes and letters from whoever performed your first surgery, in English where possible.
• Timing and company. The period in which you could stay three to four weeks, and whether someone will come with you.
• Priority questions. The questions from the consultation list above that matter most to you.
• Photos. Send these only if the hospital requests them, and then only via our consultation form or WhatsApp line. Never send intimate images to an address you came across elsewhere.