As a Doctor

Dr. Nond is a contemporary physician

Dr. Nond was trained as an old-school doctor who can diagnose diseases with minimal special examinations, making treatment decisions based on symptoms (history taking) and clinical signs (physical examination), looking at x-ray films on the light box, and performing various surgeries ranging from excising lumps, breast lumps, piercing ears for earrings, performing normal deliveries, forceps deliveries, vacuum deliveries, male and female sterilization, appendectomy, cesarean section, spinal block for lower body anesthesia, and general anesthesia with injectable or intubation. Nowadays, many modern special investigations are available and things are done on computers, including viewing X-ray results on the computer screen, unlike newer-generation doctors who graduate and can hardly perform any procedures due to changes in the education system and public health system, and must refer most cases to specialists.

Dr. Nond has no reviews

Dr. Nond studied medicine at the top medical school in the country and graduated during the transition period from the era when doctors were prohibited from advertising or soliciting patients to their services (because it violated the Medical Council regulations, which still exist today) and were strictly taught to maintain complete ethics, to the current era where medicine has become a business and many doctors advertise and market their services extensively. However, being an old-school doctor, you won't see advertisements for Dr. Nond's practice on social media, and there are no reviews, nor has he ever paid commissions to anyone for bringing patients in. The only thing that has been done for a long time, before many others, since 2009, is this website.

Dr. Nond has been in the academic field

Despite being an old-school doctor by nature, Dr. Nond has not fallen behind in any aspect. At the beginning of his residency training to become a plastic surgeon, he was appointed as a staff in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University. Throughout his career, he has been in the academic field, at the top medical school where everyone aspires to study, with constant teaching and academic activities. He was the first to introduce resorbable plates and screws, Endotine and Goretex, to Thailand and the first in the country to perform endoscopic brow lift and endoscopic face lift, performing open rhinoplasty (commonly known today as open nose surgery) on cleft lip patients and for aesthetic purposes on international patients since 2001, long before it became popular in Thailand.

A Civil Servant

Dr. Nond works as a civil servant at the Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand's premier medical school. Chulalongkorn Hospital, its affiliated hospital, serves as our primary training facility. Since 1998, Chulalongkorn Hospital has been one of the largest plastic surgery training institutions in the country.

And it is a great pride in his civil service life. On April 23, 2026, the Royal Gazette, Volume 143, Special Section 1 B, published the announcement regarding the Royal Decoration of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant and the Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand, Grand Cross Class, for the year 2025. Dr. Nond was among those who received the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant (Maha Paramaphon Chang Phueak) on the occasion of the Royal Ceremony celebrating His Majesty the King's Birthday on July 28, 2025.

Main Work at Chulalongkorn

King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital

In fact, cosmetic surgery is not the only work Dr. Nond does. Dr. Nond initiated the idea that there should be a specialized center for correcting facial and cranial abnormalities at King Memorial Chulalongkorn Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society, since 2000. Initially, there was no such center in Thailand. Dr. Nond proposed this idea to professors at Chulalongkorn and worked to make it a reality. Today, that specialized center is the Princess Sirindhorn Craniofacial Center, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society, the first and most comprehensive center of its kind in Thailand.

Throughout his tenure at the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Dr. Nond has dedicated his efforts to establishing excellence at the Princess Sirindhorn Craniofacial Center to this day. Dr. Nond set up the operational systems from the start, recruited permanent staff, and implemented modern technologies for management. He formulated patient care policies that encompass physical, mental, and social aspects. He initiated almost all the projects and activities of the center, bringing information technology into public relations, making the Princess Sirindhorn Craniofacial Center widely known. For most of the period after the center's establishment, from 2005-2020, Dr. Nond was the sole plastic surgeon at Chulalongkorn Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society, who treated over 3,000 patients at the Princess Sirindhorn Craniofacial Center, along with other specialists. Since 2020, even with a new craniofacial surgeon joining, he still manages the majority of patients at the Princess Sirindhorn Craniofacial Center. He also initiated the Mobile Clinic Project, an innovative treatment approach caring for these patients nationwide. He started the Craniofacial Fellowship, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia, which continues to attract both Thai and international surgeons for training up to the present day.

As a result of his work in the field of craniofacial surgery, Dr. Nond was elected to serve as the President of the Thai Cleft Lip-Palate and Craniofacial Association for two terms. He was also the first Thai person to hold the highest position in an international craniofacial association, becoming the President of the Asian Pacific Craniofacial Association.

Dual Board Certification

After completing a five-year residency at Chulalongkorn Hospital, Dr. Nond obtained two board certifications from the Medical Council of Thailand: General Surgery and Plastic Surgery. Working alongside esteemed faculty members, including Dr. Thavorn Charoonsmith, Dr. Manas Satienchoak, Dr. Charan Mahatthummarat, Dr. Prayuth Chokrungvaranont, and Dr. Sirachai Jindarak, who were renowned Thai plastic surgeons, laid the foundation for his current success.

Advanced Overseas Training

Later, he went for advanced training as a resident physician abroad at the Australian Craniofacial Unit in Australia with renowned faculty, especially Professor Dr. David J. David, for one year. This was followed by another year of training with Professor Dr. Mutaz Habal at the Tampa Bay Craniofacial Center in Florida, USA.

His overseas training, coupled with his participation in national conferences and cosmetic field, exposed him to cutting-edge surgical techniques, medical devices, and materials not previously available in Thailand, such as endoscopic breast surgery, body contouring, resorbable plates and screws, facial bone distraction devices, endoscopic procedures, and bone cement. This was a golden opportunity in his career.

Professor Nond Rojvachiranonda with his two esteemed mentors, Professor David J. David (right) and Professor Mutaz B. Habal (left), during his overseas training in Australia and the United States. Both mentors are internationally renowned craniofacial surgeons. Professor David J. David belongs to the first generation of craniofacial surgeons who trained under Professor Paul Tessier. Professor Mutaz B. Habal, a student of Professor Joseph Murray, who is the pioneer of craniofacial surgery in the United States, was also part of the team that performed the first successful kidney transplant in 1954.

Dr. Nond is a family doctor

This does not mean family medicine. It refers to Dr. Nond's anesthesiologist friend who regularly administers anesthesia for his patients. He told Dr. Nond that he is a family doctor because his anesthesiologist friend often sees that Dr. Nond's patients come from the same families—parents, children, grandparents—all coming on different occasions after seeing the results in others. So, Dr. Nond earned this nickname without having to further study or pass an exam to gain expertise like in family medicine.