Yongyudh Vajaradul

Professor Yongyudh Vajaradul (ยงยุทธ วัชรดุลย์, 18 August 1940, Chiang Mai, Thailand) is a pioneer in the field of tissue banking and the use of bone allografts in orthopedic surgery, and serves as chairman of the World Buddhist Scout Brotherhood.

Career
Yongyudh established the Bangkok Biomaterial Center at Siriraj Hospital in 1984, and Thailand became the tissue banking leader of the region.

The Pan-Asiatic Tissue Banking Association was first proposed in 1985 during the Western Pacific Orthopaedic Association Congress in Bangkok, Thailand by Yongyudh, Alain Patel of France, and Norberto Agcaoili of the Philippines, with its Secretariat at Bangkok Biomaterial Center. In October 1988, during the Third International Conference on Locomotor Tissue Bank in Bangkok, the new association was born and renamed Asia-Pacific Association of Surgical Tissue Banking (APASTB). The founding members included Yongyudh, who became its first president in 1988.

Yongyudh is a member of the National Scout Executive Board and the National Scout Council of the National Scout Organization of Thailand, as well as a member of the Asia Pacific Regional Scout Committee. Yongyudh was the Charter President of the Rotary Club of Bangkok-Banglamphu District 3350, Rotary International, in 1998. Yongyudh is a chairman of Interdisciplinary network of the Royal Institute of Thailand.

Decorations

 * 1957 - 25th Buddhist Century Celebration Medal (Thailand) ribbon.svg 25th Buddhist Century Celebration Medal
 * 1987 - The Boy Scout Citation Medal - 1st Class (Thailand) ribbon.svg Boy Scout Citation Medal of Vajira (First Class)
 * 1992 - Order of Ramkeerati ribbon.png Member of the Order of Symbolic Propitiousness Ramkeerati
 * 1993 - Chakrabarti Mala Medal (Thailand) ribbon.svg Chakrabarti Mala Medal
 * 1995 - Freeman Safeguarding Medal - 2nd Class 2nd Cat (Thailand) ribbon.svg Freemen Safeguarding Medal (Second Class, Second Category)
 * 1996 - Order of the Crown of Thailand - Special Class (Thailand) ribbon.svg Knight Grand Cordon (Special Class) of the Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand
 * 1999 - The Boy Scout Commendation Medal 3rd Class (Thailand) ribbon.svg Boy Scout Commendation Medal (Third Class)
 * 2001 - Order of the White Elephant - Special Class (Thailand) ribbon.svg Knight Grand Cordon (Special Class) of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant
 * 2006 - Dushdi Mala - Civilian (Thailand).svg Dushdi Mala Medal - Civilian, arts and sciences

Foreign Honour

 * 1978 - Fellow of the Royal Institute of Thailand
 * 1989 - Palmes academiques Officier ribbon.svg Officier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
 * 1999 - Ordre national du Merite Officier ribbon.svg Officier of the Ordre national du Mérite
 * 1999 - Silver Tiger (first Class) (Bangladesh)
 * 1999 - Yongyudh was awarded an honorary membership of the European Association of Tissue Banks (EATB) at the Second World Congress and Eighth EATB Annual Meeting, October 7–10, 1999, in Warsaw, Poland.
 * 2008 - Bronze Wolf award.png Bronze Wolf Award