Rheumatology

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Visiting Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Siriraj Hospital and Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand


Division of Pediatric Rheumatology
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
3705 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

412-692-5789
412-692-5054 Fax
thaschawee.arkachaisri@chp.edu
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Medical School:

1991 Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Residency:

1996 University of Illinois College of Medicine

Fellowship:

1998 Children's Hospital of Buffalo and State University of New York at Buffalo
2000 Hospital for Special Surgery and Sanford Weill Medical College of Cornell University

• Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance
• Asia-Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology
• American College of Rheumatology
• American Academy of Pediatrics

• 2005 New Investigator Scholarship, Simon Greenberg Foundation
• 2005 Five Star Physician Awards: Professional Research Consultants Inc., National Survey
• 2004 Patient Satisfaction Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Patient Care, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
• 1996 Big Brother Award (for excellence in teaching during residency)

• Behrens EM, Beukelman T, Gallo L, Spangler J, Rosenkranz M, Arkachaisri T, Ayala R, Groh B, Finkel TH, Cron RQ. Evaluation of the Presentation of Systemic Onset Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis: Data from the Pennsylvania Systemic Onset Juvenile Arthritis Registry (PASOJAR). J Rheumatol. 2007 Dec 15; [Epub ahead of print]
• Karnsakul W, Arkachaisri T, Atisook K, Wisuthsarewong W, Sattawatthamrong Y, Aanpreung P. Vanishing bile duct syndrome in a child with toxic epidermal necrolysis: an interplay of unbalanced immune regulatory mechanisms. Ann Hepatol. 2006 Apr-Jun;5(2):116-9.
• Scalapino K, Arkachaisri T, Lucas M, Fertig N, Helfrich DJ, Londino AV Jr, Steen VD, Medsger TA Jr. Childhood onset systemic sclerosis: classification, clinical and serologic features, and survival in comparison with adult onset disease. J Rheumatol. 2006 May;33(5):1004-13. Epub 2006 Apr 1.

View Dr. Arkachaisri's full list of publications from PubMed.

• Principal investigator, Phase IV Registry of Etanercept (Enbrel) in Children with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Co-Investigator, National Registry for Childhood Onset Scleroderma

Thaschawee (Tash) Arkachaisri, MD, FACR, is a pediatric rheumatologist in the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh who joined the division in 2003. Dr. Arkachaisri brings with him a reputation for excellence in treating children with rheumatic diseases and in educating medical students, residents and fellows to work in the field. In addition to his clinical duties and research, he is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Dr. Arkachaisri, a native of Thailand, earned his medical degree with first class honors in 1991 from Mahidol University in Bangkok. He completed his pediatric internship and residency at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. His interest in immunology took him to Children's Hospital of Buffalo (now Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo), and the School of Medicine and Biomedical Science at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he completed his fellowship training in allergy and clinical immunology in 1998. From 1998 to 2000, Dr. Arkachaisri served as a clinical fellow in pediatric rheumatology at the Hospital for Special Surgery at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York. He was recruited to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh from Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok, where he was chief of the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, an attending physician in the Division of Allergy and Immunology, and a member of the faculty of medicine at Mahidol University.

The study of childhood systemic sclerosis, localized scleroderma (morphea, linear scleroderma) and Raynaud's phenomenon are among Dr. Arkachaisri's research interests. Ongoing studies include investigating autoantibodies in childhood scleroderma and trying to identify disease biomarkers and outcome measurements for localized scleroderma, systemic sclerosis and Raynaud's phenomenon that will lead to better ways to monitor and treat these diseases in children.

Dr. Arkachaisri has published articles in numerous medical journals and publications. He is a Fellow in the American College of Rheumatology and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Medical Council of Thailand, Thai Rheumatism Association and the Pediatric Association of Thailand. Dr. Arkachaisri is board-certified in pediatrics, pediatric rheumatology, and allergy and immunology.