Scholarship / Being blessed to be a leader [2]

'being a leader' oportunities

Throughout my life, I have been blessed with the opportunities of being a leader several times and I would provide examples only the significant ones here.

I have experience an important leadership with being a president of the pharmaceutical student association. Since the university has the mission of public and community service, as the president of the organization, I have to take up and respond to that policy. Because many services are served for people in the city, I initiate the project in helping hill tribe people who lack of the amenities. Some argue the idea as it benefits only small group of people while others support strongly. I have to be neutral and broaden my mind as both sides have interesting lines of reasoning. After brain storming and careful discussion, the project is accepted by all team members democratically. I share the work to the members and get them the responsibility to work following their skills e.g. budget management, raising fund, activity formers, etc. On the day of event, everything is set up properly with collaboration from public and private sectors that we have been dealing with. We donate some food, clothes and medicine for hill tribe people. Team members who are responsible for educating people about health and medicine facilitate the activity with eagerness. Working for this project is not easy since I have to deal with different kinds of people and face many difficulties along the way. However, I have to make the decision carefully and lead the team enthusiastically. What I have learn from being the leader this time are to be firmed, foresighted, responsible, good listener and good team management.

Another my valuable leadership is to lead people in the community to value herbs which commonly found in the area. With pharmaceutical knowledge background I have, I think herbal cosmetic products (e.g. shampoo, soap, body lotion etc.) are another opportunity for community business. At first the local people think it is not possible for them to develop the products and they also do not realise how this project would benefit them in long term. Convincing people to believe your own idea is not easy. I try very hard to explain my idea and demonstrate how to make about 500 millilitres of herbal shampoo which the component of butterfly pea are added. Finally they can produce and run a small business of those products. As they can produce themselves, they do not need to buy those kind of expensive cosmetics. This can be called self-sustainable economy. Throughout this experience I have gained important qualities of leader especially arts of motivating others, leading by example and dedicating yourself to public benefits.

As in all things, leadership is the quality of one's behavior to empower other in attaining goals. Some people have that quality runs in their genes while others try very hard to be a leader. However, it can be leaned and strengthen as those experiences have shaped me to be a good leader.

Scholarship / Dreams become goals when I am trying hard to catch them [3]

my lifetime goals

I have always been thinking about pursuing a professional in career path, filling life with experiences and contributing good things to future generations. Upon graduation, I plan my lifetime goals into short term and long term sections with chance and challenge.

For short term plan, first I would like to walk on a career in education. I strongly want to give all professional knowledges, informations, skills and experiences that I have got through to students, undergraduates in particular. Even though, the specific knowledge of biologic medicines and advance biotechnology are not quite well-known in my country, they are booming over the world in this era. I want to give a chance to the future generations to open their intellectual door and broaden their horizon. I hope the students get some valuable concepts for their future career in scientific field. In addition, I would like to contribute all my eagerness, morals, positive attitudes and being a good example to the students. These will shape them to be a good person in the society.

Turning to consider about my long term plan, I would like to help my country in the development of biologic drugs. First, I want to support knowledge and optimised practice to pharmaceutical companies, both private and public sectors, to effectively produce high quality innovative biologic drugs with low cost. The higher quality, the higher efficacy and safety of the medicines. Secondly, I would like to do research about quality control for example biological analytical development, biologic drug evaluation, biomarker identification, etc. with hospitals and research centres. I consider these works as a challenge. After all, they will benefit to patients who use the medicines, health care cost and pharmaceutical companies in long run. Thirdly, I would like to achieve doctoral degree to guarantee the qualifications of expert in biotechnology.

In case of collaboration between the UK and Thailand focusing on partners in science, the leading organizations of the two countries have joint initiative on research projects regarding to basic discovery of mechanisms of disease, biomarkers detection, diagnosis of diseases and biotechnology corresponding to my interests. The collaborative projects are to enable the pursuit of shared research interests. I think this initiative also help Thai scientific community to be stronger in healthcare research fields. This collaboration is related to my long term goal and I dream to be a part of the research projects as well as collaborating with different levels of UK government organization.

Last but not least, I hope to get opportunity of studying in the UK to obtain best professional qualification. It would be an valuable experience that support and push me to make my dream come true.