Kriang Tungsanga
Thailand
Pioneer Award: Oceania & South East Asia
The ISN Pioneer Awards, restricted to individuals from non-high-income countries, honor the ‘unsung heroes’ of nephrology: doctors who have made extraordinary efforts to advance nephrology in a specific country or region.
Professor Emeritus Kriang Tungsanga graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, in 1973. He received postgraduate training as a research fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, US. He returned to the Faculty of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University as a faculty staff member in the Department of Medicine and gradually ascended to the position of professor of medicine.
Professor Tungsanga’s areas of interest include kidney stone disease and CKD early detection and prevention, with particular emphasis on implementing integrated care at a community healthcare level. His previous academic positions were past president of the Nephrology Society of Thailand, the Royal College of Physicians of Thailand, and chair of the Committee for National List of Essential Medicine in the Royal Thai Government (2016-2021). He also serves as the chair of the Ethical Committee for Research in Man at the Ministry of Public Health of the Royal Thai Government. He has published 230 papers in peer-reviewed medical journals.
Professor Tungsanga will receive the 2025 Pioneer Award for OSEA at a regional meeting in 2025.