Biographical sketches and contact information
Duong, Hon-Vu, M.D.
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Dr. Duong was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the US in 1975 where he and his family settled in Virginia. After high school, he enlisted into the US Army and served with the US Army Special Operation Command – 5th Special Forces Group. After 4 years of playing soldier, eating snakes, and jumping out of airplanes, he left the Army to attend Penn State University. After graduating from college and medical school, he began his post-graduate training in General Surgery. One year later, he was called back to active duty where he was stationed in Germany (Bad Tölz and Stuttgart) and served one year with NATO in Bosnia.
In 2000, he returned to civilian life and completed his second year of General Surgery training at the University of Virginia Health Science Center. He went on to Howard University Hospital to complete his residency in Ophthalmology where he received advanced training in oculoplastic and microsurgery. He also completed a fellowship in Ophthalmic Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Dr. Duong has been published in peer review journals and authored two chapters for an ophthalmology textbook. He has lectured at regional and national meetings. As a member of the Westfield Eye Center Eye Team, Dr. Duong has traveled to developing and third-world countries providing ophthalmologic humanitarian care. He is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Ophthalmic and Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, and the Vietnamese Medical Society.
Throughout his medical training, Dr. Duong never forgot his calling and true love – teaching. He has taught Anatomy & Physiology, Microbiology, and Neuroscience at Nevada State College. It has been rumored that Dr. Duong runs classes like a military unit. How true that fact is remains to be analyzed but he does care for the welfare of his students. Despite a few scattered complaints that his classes are "hard," Dr. Duong continues to challenge his students and push his students to think logically and analytically.