Professor Banchong Mahaisavariya is the former Dean of The Faculty of Graduate Study of Mahidol University during 2007-2014. He is currently Vice President of Mahidol University. He also serves as the President-Elect of the Royal College of Orthopaedic Surgeons of Thailand (RCOST). He obtained a medical degree, internship and residency training in orthopaedic surgery from the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital. After finishing orthopaedic training in 1983, he was appointed as teaching staff at the Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University until 1993. During this time, he gained experience in serving orthopaedic trauma service, hand and microsurgery. Many research works relating to innovative ideas and new surgical techniques in fracture treatments have been published in prominent journals such as J Bone Joint Surgery, Clinical Orthopaedic and Related Research, Acta Orthopaedic Scandinavia, British Journal of Surgery and Injury, etc. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre de Traumatologie et Orthopaedie in Strasbourg, France in 1990. He was a founding member of the Asian Association of Dynamic Osteosynthesis (AADO) in 1992. He went back to join the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital as Associate Professor in 1993. He was AO Fellow in 1995 with Prof. Marvin Tile and Prof. Joseph Schaztsker at Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto Canada. He was promoted to a full Professor since 1997.
His special interests include: the biomechanics of fracture fixation, the development of new implant designs for fracture fixation, new surgical techniques for fracture fixations, etc. He has served on several committees in the Orthopaedic Societies both domestic (RCOST) and global levels such as ASEAN Orthopaedic Association (AOA), Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association (APOA), AADO, EFORT and SICOT. He also serves in the editorial board and reviewer of several international journals such as JBJS, CORR, JOS, Techn Orthop.