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Vo Thi Hong Huong, MD, MBA
Specialist in rehabilitation medicine, traditional medicine and hospital quality management
- Deputy Director, Hospital 199 – Ministry of Public Security
- Principal investigator of a ministerial-level project on multimodal, digitally enabled rehabilitation
- Founding member, 199VIH – 199 Vietnam Medical Innovation Hub
- 20+
- years in medicine, focused on rehabilitation and hospital management
- 3
- research projects led, one at ministerial level
- 3
- facilities that adopted her rehabilitation model
- 8+
- international partners in Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, the UK, Germany and Ireland
About
Dr Vo Thi Hong Huong has more than 20 years of experience in rehabilitation medicine and hospital management in Da Nang. She qualified as a physician at Hue Medical University, completed Specialist Level I training in Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, and Specialist Level II training in Health Management at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue University. She also holds an MBA (FSB Institute of Management and Technology, FPT University) and a Bachelor’s degree in English Language (Hue University).
She began as an attending physician in the Department of Traditional Medicine at Hospital 199 in 2005, led the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation from 2013 to 2021, and headed the General Planning Department from 2021 to 2025. Since February 2025 she has been Deputy Director of Hospital 199 – Ministry of Public Security, responsible for quality management, nursing, rehabilitation, traditional medicine, nutrition, laboratory medicine and pathology.
Having spent eight years as a traditional medicine physician before specialising in rehabilitation, she combines traditional medicine, modern medicine and rehabilitation within a single care plan. Her central aim is to move rehabilitation from “treatment by technique” to comprehensive recovery: treatment, rehabilitation and return to community life. She has transferred this model to Van Don Medical Centre, Dong Nai Hospital and Infirmary No. 2 of the Quang Tri Provincial Police.
In quality management she favours a proactive approach: identifying risks, monitoring, analysing and improving continuously, rather than inspecting only to find errors. In innovation, she is a founding member of 199VIH and founded an Innovation Club and a Medical English Club for young doctors, nurses and technicians. She now brings innovation into her own specialty: digitally enabled rehabilitation and hospital operations.
Values
- Humane healthcare, with people at the centre of care
- A culture of service: leading to serve patients and staff
Education
- 1999–2005
- Doctor of Medicine (general medicine), Hue Medical University
- 2010–2012
- Specialist Level I in Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City
- 2023
- Specialist Level II in Health Management, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue University
- 2026
- Master of Business Administration, FSB Institute of Management and Technology, FPT University
- 2026
- Bachelor of English Language, Hue University
International short courses
- 10/2026 – 01/2027
- Economic Management and Sustainable Development, Waikato Management School, University of Waikato, New Zealand (in progress, taught in English)
- 11/2024
- Leadership Development Programme, Home Team Academy, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore
- 08/2024
- Workshop “Leadership Skills for Women in Law Enforcement”, Hue, organised by the Ministry of Public Security with the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), US Department of State
- 2015
- Pain management course, Thailand (one week)
- 07–10/2010
- Rehabilitation medicine training, Cathay General Hospital, Taiwan (three months)
Career
- 2005–2013
- Attending physician, Department of Traditional Medicine, Hospital 199
- 2013–2020
- Deputy Head in charge, Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Hospital 199
- 2020–2021
- Head, Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Hospital 199
- 2021–2025
- Head, General Planning Department, Hospital 199
- From 02/2025
- Deputy Director, Hospital 199 – Ministry of Public Security
Articles
1 articleArticles are published in Vietnamese. English versions will follow once approved by the author.
Research
- Developing and piloting a multimodal, digitally enabled rehabilitation model in People’s Public Security units in Central Vietnam. Ministerial-level project; principal investigator; ongoing.
- A chronicle of Hospital 199, 1999–2024. Principal investigator; completed.
- Telemedicine for monitoring and managing patients with diabetes at Hospital 199. Principal investigator; completed.
International cooperation
Hospital 199 delegation to Leipzig, Germany (November 2023)
- Organised with the City of Leipzig; professional exchange and discussion of training cooperation
- Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Sports Medicine, Leipzig University Hospital
- Leipzig Heart Centre (Herzzentrum Leipzig)
- Institute for Applied Training Science (IAT – Institut für Angewandte Trainingswissenschaft)
- Physio Holding rehabilitation centre
- Eisenmoorbad Bad Schmiedeberg
Other partners
- Taipei Veterans General Hospital (Taiwan)
- Cheras Hospital (Malaysia)
- Burapha University (Thailand)
- University of Greenwich (United Kingdom)
- Nagasaki University (Japan)
- Samsung Medison Vietnam Innovation Hub
- Operation Walk Ireland
Profile supplied by the expert, last checked 28 October 2026.