Hồ Trung Dũng

In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Hồ, but is often simplified to Ho in English-language text. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Dũng.
Hồ Trung Dung
NationalityVietnamese
OccupationPhysician

Hồ Trung Dũng (born 1925) is a Vietnamese former prominent French medical doctor in Vietnam for over 50 years from the 1950s until his retirement at the end of the 20th century.

Education

Dũng's wedding.

He completed the French Baccalauraete; He graduated from the French established Medical School in Saigon – Saigon Medical School Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University

Family

Dũng's father-in-law was Minister of Health – Dr.Khuong Huu Long under the last monarch Bảo Đại. Dũng is a direct descendant of an aristocrat from city Vĩnh Long, Vietnam. Dũng's wife was Mrs. Khương Hữu Thị Hiệp.[1] from a wealthy and well-established family Khương Hữu. He retired in the United States after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and died in 2002.

Medical practice

Dũng served as chief executive officer and president of Từ Dũ, an OB/GYN hospital in Saigon[2] since the 1950s until the fall of Saigon in 1975. During this period he also taught medicine at Saigon Medical School and served as its vice-chancellor and Dean of Academy. He presided, judged, graded, and appointed hundreds/thousands of newly graduated medical doctors in Vietnam. Many Vietnamese-refugee-medical doctors' diplomas (these doctors immigrated to Europe and the US since the fall of Saigon in 1975, have been successfully practicing medicine) have Dũng's signature as "stamp of approval".

Life in retirement

Dũng remained a private citizen and practiced medicine in the United States from 1975 and died in 2002 at the age of 85. His wife died in 2013.[1] They have seven children; 2 have died and 5 reside in the US.

References

  1. ^ a b "Hiep_Thi_H_Khuong". Khuong-huu.com. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  2. ^ "Bệnh viện Từ Dũ". Tudu.com.vn. 30 July 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2014.