Associate Professor. Vu Thi Thanh Huyen, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, General Secretary of the Vietnam Association of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Deputy Head of the Department of Geriatrics, Hanoi Medical University, Head of the Department of Scientific Research, and Head of the Department of Endocrinology (Musculoskeletal), National Geriatric Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam. Dr. Huyen has more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications in Vietnam and internationally and has guided more than 30 Master's, Doctoral or PhD students in the field of Internal Medicine (Geriatrics). She has also participated as a PI of many scientific research projects in research areas including: frailty, sarcopenia, geriatric syndromes, dementia and Alzheimer's disease, diabetes and metabolic syndrome, heart failure, hypertension, and ischemic heart disease in the elderly. She has also had many collaborations with domestic and international researchers in the field of geriatrics.