Phyo Kyaw Myint University of Aberdeen, UK, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, UK

Phyo Kyaw Myint, professor of Medicine of Old Age, completed undergraduate and house officer training in Myanmar. He was awarded the Stroke Association Clinical Fellowship and received clinical stroke training in Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. He was trained in Clinical Epidemiology in Cambridge and Norwich, UK, and conferred the Doctor of Medicine in 2007. His epidemiological work in stroke was cited as one of the research achievements of the Stroke Association–funded research. He completed higher medical specialist training in 2008 with accreditations in General Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine with subspecialty in Stroke Medicine. His first senior academic appointment was with the Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia in 2008 as clinical senior lecturer in Ageing and Stroke Medicine. Subsequently, he took up the position of clinical chair in medicine (old age) with the University of Aberdeen School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition. He currently sits on the Council of the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network as the Royal College of Physicians London Representative and is a member of the National Institute of Health Research Dementias Clinical Studies Portfolio Development Group. As a lead academic for the Clinical Academic Training & Development in North of Scotland, he oversees various schemes of the Aberdeen Clinical Academic Training.