Thuy Phung, MD, PhD

USA
Associate professor and associate director of Global Pathology, Department of Pathology, Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Thuy Phung, MD, PhD is an associate professor and associate director of Global Pathology in the Department of Pathology at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.  She completed MD/PhD training at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, New York, followed by residency training in pathology at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri and Dermatopathology fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.  Dr. Phung specializes in skin pathology and is a staff dermatopathologist at Texas Children’s Hospital. She directs a cancer research laboratory that studies molecular causes driving cancer growth and metastasis, and the biology of vascular anomalies. Her publications include topics in skin pathology and molecular pathogenesis of vascular tumors and tumor angiogenesis.  She is the lead author of a comprehensive textbook Pediatric Dermatopathology.
 
 
 
In addition to her scientific and clinical work, Dr. Phung is passionate about global health.  She is a co-founder of the award-winning Vietnam Vascular Anomalies Center in Ho Chi Minh City, and a Visiting Professor in Pathology at medical schools in Hue City and Ho Chi Minh City.  She and other US physicians return to Vietnam each year to participate in physician education and treatment of children with vascular and pigmented birthmarks.  Dr. Phung has been spearheading a program in global pathology to enhance the standard of practice of pathology in Vietnam and Southeast Asia by improving physician education and pathology laboratory practice.  She serves on the Executive Committee of the Asian Society of Dermatopathology.