Assistant Professor Dr Kittipong Tachampa received his DVM (Hons) from Chulalongkorn University in 1998. In 2003, he received his M.Sc. from Mahidol University in Thailand, and in 2009, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. He has been awarded by several international organizations, including the Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award by the American Heart Association, Dean’s Scholar Award by the University of Illinois at Chicago, Franco-Thai Young Investigator Scholarships by the French Embassy in Thailand, and lately, a Diplomate of the Thai Board of Veterinary Medicine in 2016. He has been working as a lecturer and cardiologist at the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, and at the cardiology units of the Small Animal Teaching Hospital, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University since 1998. Dr Kittipong has been keenly interested in cardiovascular physiology and medicine. He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles with approximately 900 citations. His research recently focused on using cardiac time interval parameters from echocardiography and ECG or PCG in detecting reduced cardiac function in dogs with heart diseases. He has been invited as a speaker to give lectures on the topics of cardiovascular medicine and echocardiography in small animals, both locally and internationally.