Hồ Trung Dũng
# Hồ Trung Dũng

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

## Education

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

Hồ's father-in-law was Minister of Health – Dr.Khuong Huu Long under the last monarch Bảo Đại. Hồ is a direct descendant of an aristocrat from city Vĩnh Long, Vietnam. Hồ's wife was Mrs. Khương Hữu Thị Hiệp. 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

Hồ served as chief executive officer and president of Từ Dũ, an OB/GYN hospital in Saigon 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 Hồ's signature as "stamp of approval".

## Life in retirement

Hồ 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. They have seven children; 2 have died and 5 reside in the US.

