RiTradiology Overview
For Knowledge Sharing*
RiTradiology.com (formerly known as RadiologyInThai.com) shares knowledge in radiology and related fields with physicians around the world through high-quality images and scientifically-proven contents in a form of brief, easy-to-read posts. A wide variety of contents includes head-to-toe imaging diagnosis of common diseases, classic radiologic signs, quality in radiology, training/education, radiation safety and radiology-related opinions. All imaging modalities are presented, including radiography, ultrasound, CT, MRI, nuclear medicine, mammography, and PET. In addition to regular posts, a slideshow offers a downloadable lectures of interesting imaging topics produced by RiTradiology.com authors. 'Friend Connect' is a social networking tool for the site.
RiTradiology.com was started with an informal discussion between Rathachai Kaewlai MD, a Thai radiologist -- at that time a clinical fellow in radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston -- and a few Thai radiologists. They agreed to create a website dedicated to sharing of knowledge in radiology and related fields to any interested physicians of any levels of training. On April 1, 2008, the first article about scleral buckling device of the eye was created by Bundhit Tantiwongkosi MD. The second and third articles followed quickly, since then the rate of publishing the articles has been at one article/3 days. Several articles in the first month were written in Thai language. However, realization of the importance of using a universal English language came after the knowledge that many visitors were not from Thailand. The second iteration of the website was in adding English contents, as they would be better received worldwide. Currently, most articles are written in English -- some may have a brief Thai summary or an accompanying Thai-language podcast. Moreover, a Translator tool is available to quickly turn any pages into 11 common languages (including Spanish, Arabic, Chinese).
Website Owner and Main Author
RiTradiology.com owner and administrator is Rathachai Kaewlai MD.
Rathachai Kaewlai, MD (น.พ. รัฐชัย แก้วลาย)
Contact by email
Affiliation: Ramathibodi Hospital and Bumrungrad International, Bangkok, Thailand
Work History:
2009 Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., USA
Training History:
2010 American Board of Radiology (Diagnostic Radiology, MGH)
2007 clinical fellow in thoracic radiology (MGH),
2006 clinical fellow in emergency radiology (MGH),
2005 clinical fellow in body imaging (NEOUCOM)
2002 resident in radiology (Ramathibodi Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand)
Interests: Emergency and trauma radiology, thoracic and abdominal radiology, quality
Publications: BioInfo Library, Google Scholar
RiT Milestones
- 14 February 2008: RiT was first registered to blogspot.com as "radiologyinthai".
- 1 April 2008: The first post was created and published by RiT contributor, Bundhit Tantiwongkosi, M.D.
- 1 October 2008: RiT was featured in www.radRounds.com
- December 2008: A hundred posts was reached.
- May 2009: Website name was changed to "RiTradiology.com"
- 2 June 2009: RiT reaches 10,000 visitors as recorded by Site Meter. There are approximately 60-70 visitors, 100-120 page views per day.
- 28 September 2009: RiT reaches 22,000 visitors. There are approximately 120-140 visitors and 200 page views per day.
- 18 November 2009: 30,000 visitors were reached.
- 12 January 2011: RiT has been read by 100,000 visitors.
Contributing Authors (by #posts)
Supika Kritsanepaiboon, MD (พ.ญ.ศุภิกา กฤษณีไพบูลย์) (4)Affiliation: Prince of Songkla University Hospital, Songkla, Thailand
Training History:
2007 observer in pediatric radiology (2-year) (Children Hospital Boston, USA)
200x resident in radiology (Prince of Songkla University Hospital, Thailand)
Interests: Pediatric radiology, pediatric cardiac imaging
Publication(s): BioInfo Library, Google Scholar
Tanop Srisuwan, MD (น.พ. ธนพ ศรีสุวรรณ) (2) Affiliation: Chiang Mai University Hospital, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Training History:
2007 observer in interventional radiology (2-month) (Melbourne, Australia)
2006 clinical fellow in body imaging and intervention (Ramathibodi Hospital)
2003 resident in radiology (Ramathibodi Hospital)
Interests: Interventional radiology, cardiac imaging
Publication(s): BioInfo Library, Google Scholar
Bundhit Tantiwongkosi, MD (น.พ. บัณฑิต ตันติวงศ์โกสีย์) (1)
Affiliation: University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Training History:
2008 clinical fellow in neuroradiology (UCLA)
2004 resident in radiology - American Board of Radiology (NEOUCOM)
2001 resident in radiology (Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand)
Interests: Neuroradiology
Publication(s): BioInfo Library, Google Scholar
Silanath Peungjesada, MD (1)
Affiliation: Dallas Veteran Administration Hospital, Dallas, Texas, USA
Training History:
2007 clinical fellow in trauma/emergency radiology (University of Texas at Houston, USA)
2006 clinical fellow in body imaging (MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA)
2004 clinical fellow in vascular and interventional radiology and neuroradiology (Louisiana State University, Louisiana, USA)
200x resident in radiology (Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand)
Interests: Body imaging
Publication(s): BioInfo Library, Google Scholar
Teerapon Premprapha, MD (น.พ.ธีรพล เปรมประภา) (1)
Affiliation: Prince of Songkla University Hospital, Songkla, Thailand
Training History:
200x resident in radiology and nuclear medicine (Chulalongkorn University Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand)
Interests: Nuclear medicine
Publication(s): BioInfo Library, Google Scholar
Thanwa Sudsang, MD (พ.ญ.ธันวา สุดแสง) (1)
Affiliation: Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Training History:
2008 observer in neuroradiology (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia & Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston)
2007 clinical fellow in pediatric neuroradiology (Children Hospital of Philadelphia, USA)
2004 clinical fellow in neuroradiology (Ramathibodi Hospital)
199x resident in radiology (Ramathibodi Hospital)
Interests: Neuroradiology, pediatric neuroradiology
Publication(s): BioInfo Library, Google Scholar
RiT ILLUMINATIONS Editor
Rathachai Kaewlai, MD
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