Bui Duc Phu, MD, PhD

Bui Duc Phu, MD, PhD

Professor

College of Health Sciences

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Bui Duc Phu graduated from Hue Medical University and obtained his PhD degree from Hanoi Medical University. He studied cardiac surgery in France. He has devoted his medical career to developing a heart surgery specialty in Central Region of Vietnam and is considered the Vietnamese surgeon to perform the first heart transplant in Viet Nam. He was formerly the director of Cardiac Center and director of Hue Central Hospital. Regarding the training and education, he was a professor of surgery and former Chairman of Surgery at Hue University of Medicine. Since 2017 he has joined Vinmec Health Care system as senior advisor.

He is a member of the professional societies: Vice President of Viet Nam Medical Association, former President of the Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery of Vietnam, former Vice President of Vietnamese Surgery Association, former President of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia…