Le Dinh Phuong
- Vietnam
Dr. Le Dinh Phuong has spent more than 30 years working in Intensive Care and Internal Medicine. In these fields, he has seen all the extents of smoking harms, from new smokers to end-stage lung disease patients. He is an experienced clinician, a medical educator as well as speaker and/or CME lecturer for different organizations related to Smoking Harm Reduction, such as Medical Universities, Vietnam Medical Association, Vietnam Young Physician Association. By these educational activities, he shares about tobacco harm reduction approaches with patients and local medical community. He is author of many op-eds in public newspapers and high-profile media to encourage smokers who otherwise continue smoking to switch to better alternatives. He has much attentiveness on harm reduction innovation as an important part of preventive medicine in many cardio-metabolic disorders as well.”