Direk Limmathurotsakul, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Tropical Hygiene, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand; Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit Bangkok, Thailand

Dr. Limmathurotsatokal currently serves as Assistant Professor, Department of Tropical Hygiene, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand; Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Bangkok, Thailand. Dr. Limmathurotsatokal’s primary clinical area of expertise is in melioidosis, leptospirosis and ricketsiosis with a specific emphasis on research methodology, epidemiology and statistics, including Bayesian data analysis. He was a key committee member of the World Melioidosis Congress of 2013 and one of the foremost authorities on endemic melioidosis. Dr. Limmathurotsakul received his MD from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand and his PhD from Open University, UK.