Background of Our Hospital<\/strong><\/p>\n After graduation in 1978 with a degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.) from Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Dr.Pongpao Hosathitam started his career as a practicing veterinarian in commercial pig and poultry farms belong to the commercial animal feed manufacturing company in Bangkok. At this company he was responsible for management of the health and productivity as a whole of those animals in the farms. However, in 1983 with the passion of small animal veterinary medicine he has decided to move to Chiang Mai and begun his new journey in small animal veterinary medicine since then.<\/p>\n A small animal clinic named Chotana Veterinarain was first established here in Chiang Mai at soi Pongsuwan, Chotana road and later on moved to the present site and upgraded to Chiang Mai Chotana Animal Hospital located at \u00a0250\/17 Chiang Mai-Lampang Superhighway near Tesco Lotus, Kamthieng Market. Also he has used his knowledge, skill and experience for the benefit of pig farmers as a consultant for many commercial pig farms both large and medium size in Chiang Mai and Lamphun.<\/p>\n World Tour …In Search of\u00a0 International <\/em><\/strong>Pig Veterinary Knowledge<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n In order to update the knowledge in pig veterinary medicine to an international level, Dr.Pongpao Hosathitam has gone to attend the 12th<\/sup> International Pig Veterinary Society Congress (12th<\/sup> IPVS Congress) held at The Hague, The Netherlands during 17th<\/sup>-20th<\/sup> August 1992. All up to date knowledge about pig health and productivity has been applied for the benefit of large and medium size of commercial pig farms in this region of Thailand.<\/p>\n He also has ever been\u00a0elected president of Lanna Veterinary Society, a society where all members who are both private and government veterinarians working in the northern part of Thailand come to join force and provide their veterinary knowledge and skill to the public both pig farmers and pet owners in Chiang Mai and nearby provinces.<\/p>\n Additionally, he has lectured in a dog raising education program for dog breeders and owners held at Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University on June 13, 1993. Since the inception of Chiang Mai Chotana Animal Hospital, in addition to pet health care in particular for your beloved pets we have been continuously improving our service in every aspect such as:[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]\n reminding system for pet health program to ensure that your pets vaccination program are always current and follow up checkup and treatment for geriatric diseases.<\/p>\n We always update our team\u2019s veterinary knowledge and skill through continuing education program from internet, seminar and conference. Equipment and instrument required for effective diagnosis, treatment and surgery (both soft and bone surgery) for your pets are fully available such as autoclave, radiography machine, gas anesthetic machine with ventilator, pulse oximeter, infusion pump etc. Skill and up to date knowledge for making diagnosis and surgery are also current and ready for making your pets healthy and happy.<\/p>\n World Tour \u2026In search of\u00a0 Worldly <\/em><\/strong>Small Animal Veterinary Knowledge<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n In 1997, Dr.Pongpao Hosathitam has been to United Kingdom in order to attend the international conference for small animal called World Congress of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) on 3rd<\/sup>-6th<\/sup> April 1997 held at the International Convention Center (the ICC), Birmingham, United Kingdom and WSAVA 24th<\/sup>-27th<\/sup> October 2003 held at Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand and many other seminars organized by Thai and International Veterinary Institutes.<\/p>\n All those events are the gathering of the international experts and specialists in every branches of small animal medicine who willingly lecture and provide hand-on knowledge and experience on topics of their in depth knowledge for all participating attendants.<\/p>\n By the time we started our veterinary clinic in Chiang Mai in 1984, pet orthopedic (bone surgery) service was not yet available, so when such serious orthopedic cases were brought to any veterinary clinics in town the answers to pet owners would mostly be referring to veterinary schools in Bangkok (700 plus kilometer away from Chiang Mai). The best that\u00a0could be done at the time was just for a simple orthopedic case such as bandaging, while any complicated orthopedics case which needed orthopedic specialist and specific instruments were obviously absence. That kind of situation was absolutely embarrassing to both pet owners and attending veterinarians.<\/p>\n In 1999, in response to Dr.Richard Eaton-Wells\u2019 invitation, Dr.Pongpao Hosathitam has taken this precious opportunity to visit his own veterinary practice in Brisbane, Australia named Queensland Veterinary Specialists <\/a>(formerly known as \u201cWest Chermside Veterinary Clinic\u201d) with the aim[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]\n to\u00a0learn and see how an operation of veterinary specialist practice be, orthopedic surgery in particular for 2 weeks long. This trip has significantly enhanced our practical knowledge and skill much more than our expectation. In addition to practical knowledge and skill in orthopedics surgery we also gain practical knowledge about veterinary referral center where sophisticated cases include veterinary orthopedics cases, reproductive system difficulties and other sophisticated internal medicine cases are referred to this Queensland Veterinary Specialists by general practitioners in this area and even from other parts of Australia for the best benefit of the sick pets and owners.<\/p>\n Also in 2000, with the aim to enforce and\u00a0accumulate more and\u00a0more knowledge and skill in orthopedics surgery Dr.Pongpao Hosathitam has decided to participate a workshops in the U.S.A. named Surgical Fixation of Fractures (A course in AO\/ASIF Techniques 31st Annual Canine Basic Course) May 11-14, 2000\u00a0at The Hyatt Regency\u00a0organized by\u00a0The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A..\u00a0 Additionally, WSAVA Orthopaedics lectures and workshops in Thailand-Bangkok and Chiang Mai, October 2000 has also been attended by Dr.Pongpao Hosathitam. This workshops were presented by two Australian veterinary orthopaedics specialists namely Dr.Geoff Robins from Specialist Small Animal Surgeon, Brisbane, Australia and Dr.Roger Clarke.<\/p>\n Since the past decades we have been seeing more and more cases of Chronic Renal Failure both in dog and cat, then in order to improve our knowledge and skill on this particular disease, CE course on this subject become absolutely necessary. So in 2001, Dr.Pongpao Hosathitam has taken the Renal Insufficiency online CE course\u00a0 organized by Veterinary Information Network<\/a>, Inc. U.S.A. after being a member of this Network since July, 2000.<\/p>\n Skin diseases have also been increasingly worsening the quality of life of more and more dogs and cats. In order to address this issue more effectively Dr.Pongpao Hosathitam has attended CE course on this subject: Small Animal Dermatology Diagnosis and Theapeutics, 30 November \u2013 2 December 2001 held at Kanchanaburi, Thailand which was taught by Australian veterinary dermatologist named Dr.Beth McDonald.<\/p>\n Enthusiastically, Dr.Pongpao Hosathitam has regularly participated annual veterinary conference organized by The Veterinary Association of Thailand (VPAT) with the passion to best service pets and owners with current and up-to-date knowledge. During April 27-30, 2008 he has attended VPAT Regional Veterinary Congress 2008 held at Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][rev_slider_vc alias=”About”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text] Background of Our Hospital After graduation in 1978 with a degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.) from Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Dr.Pongpao Hosathitam started his career as a practicing veterinarian in commercial pig and poultry farms belong to the commercial animal feed manufacturing company in Bangkok. At […]<\/p>\n
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