Dr. Polakit Teekakirikul

Chief Executive Officer, VitalLife Scientific Wellness Center; Chief Scientific Officer, Bumrungrad International Hospital

Assistant Professor Dr. Polakit Teekakirikul is Chief Executive Officer of VitalLife Scientific Wellness Center and Chief Scientific Officer of Bumrungrad International Hospital. He practices at the Bumrungrad Genomic Medicine Center, where he focuses on advancing genomics and precision medicine.

He earned his MD from Chulalongkorn University. After completing his internship and residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in clinical molecular genetics at Harvard-affiliated Hospitals and Harvard Medical School, he specialized in cardiovascular medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), focusing on genetic cardiomyopathy and cardiac MRI.

Before his current role, Dr. Polakit was an Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiology at Prince of Wales Hospital and Hong Kong Children’s Hospital, under the Chinese University of Hong Kong.