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Professor PHYO KYAW MYINT

Professor PHYO KYAW MYINT
Professor PHYO KYAW MYINT
Professor PHYO KYAW MYINT

MBBS, MD, FRCP (Edin.), FRCP (Lond.)

Chair in Old Age Medicine (Clinical)

About
Email Address
phyo.myint@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 437841
Office Address

Room 4:013, Polwarth Building, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD

School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
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Biography

Professor Myint completed undergraduate and house officer training in Myanmar (formerly Burma) and held post graduate clinical training posts in Yorkshire, East Kent, Mersey and Eastern Deaneries. 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. He was conferred the Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 2007 with the Thesis “Healthy Ageing: Determinants and Outcomes of Functional Health in EPIC-Norfolk”. He completed higher medical specialist training in March 2008 with accreditations in General Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine with sub-specialty in Stroke Medicine.

He took up his first senior academic appointment with the Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia in 2008 as Clinical Senior Lecturer in Ageing and Stroke Medicine. He moved to Scotland in August 2013 to take up the position of Clinical Chair in Medicine (Old Age) with the University of Aberdeen. He led the Aberdeen Clinical Academic Training Pathways in North of Scotland between 2016 and 2022. From December 2021, he took on the role of School EDI and Athena Swan Co-Lead. 

He has held many National Level Roles in the past including Executive Committee Member of the British Association of Stroke Physicians and involved in NICE guideline development group (2010 COPD update).

He is the Founding Co-Chair of the Scottish Care of Older People (SCoOP) National Audit Programme. He sits on the Council of the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) as the Royal College of Physicians London Representative and is also a member of SIGN Sustainability Group. He is also a member of National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Dementias Clinical Studies Portfolio Development Group. He was recently appointed as Co-Chair of Ageing & Frailty Standards Development Group (2023-2024), Healthcare Improvement Scotland.

 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Current

  • School Co-Lead for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition (2021-2024)
  • School Co-Lead for Athena Swan, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition (2021-2024)
  • School Executive Team Member (School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition) (2016-2024)
  • School Teaching & Learning Committee- Member (2024)
  • Clinical Lead and Steering Group Member of the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s (ACONF)
  • NHS Grampian Area Committee Member (University of Aberdeen Representative) 
  • Ageing Clinical & Experimental Research (ACER) Team Lead, Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen
  • Educational Supervisor-Foundation Doctors (Department of Medicine for the Elderly)
  • Academic Mentor-Specialty Training Programme in Geriatric Medicine, North East Scotland, Scotland
  • Geriatric Medicine Training Committee, North Region, NHS Education for Scotland, Scotland
  • Academic Line Manager, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition
  • Member: TUTELAGE Committee

Previous

  • Director of Clinical Academic Training and Development, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition (2016- April 2022)
  • Co-ordinator of NIHR ACF programme- University of East Anglia (2009-2013 )
  • Co-Course Director- MSc in Health Research, University of East Anglia (2011-2013)
  • Norwich Academic Training Office (NATO) Board Member- Faculty of Health, University of East Anglia (2010-2013 )
  • Postgraduate Research (PGR) LTQC Representative for Doctor of Medicine (MD), Degree, Norwich Medical School, Faculty of Health, UEA (Oct 2010-March 2012 )
  • Postgraduate Research (PGR) Lead (MD) for Health and Social Sciences Research Institute (HSSRI) (2009-2010)
  • Deputy Representative to TUTELAGE Committee for Geriatric Medicine (2014- July 2016)
  • Educational Supervisor- Specialty Training in Geriatric Medicine & Core Medical Training Programme, Norwich, Eastern Deanery.
  • AGEING theme lead, Epidemiology Group, Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen
  • Educational Supervisor-Specialty Training Programme in Geriatric Medicine, North East Scotland, Scotland (2013-2018)
External Memberships

Current

Previous

  • Royal College of Psychiatrists: the Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health (POMH) QI Project Expert Advisor (2023-2024)
  • The Scottish Clinical Research Excellence Development Scheme (SCREDS) Operational Board member; NHS Education for Scotland (2016- April 2022)
  • INSPIRE Lead, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition (2016-April 2022)
  • Visiting Professor (University of Medicine I, Yangon) (2016-2021)
  • Funding Panel Member, Health Research Board, Republic of Ireland (2017, 2019)
  • NIHR Dementia & Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network (DeNDRoN) Dementia Clinical Studies Group member (2013-2015)
  • National Executive Committee Member (British Association of Stroke Physicians) (2012-2014)
  • Member of National Age & Ageing CLRN Group (2012-2013)
  • East of England National Institute for Health Research RfPB Funding Advisory Committee Member (2012-2013)
  • Funding Panel Member for the Life and Health Sciences panel. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (FCT), the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2013)
  • Honorary Regional Deputy Secretary, East of England British Geriatrics Society (2012-2013)
  • External Examiner-MSc in Geriatric Medicine- University of Salford, Manchester, UK
  • Topic Expert Group Member (NICE)- COPD (2010-2011)
  • Associate Editor (BMC Health Services Research) (2009- 2017)
  • Editorial Board Member (Scientific Reports) (2017- 2020)
  • International Editorial Board Member (Open Heart Failure Journal) (2008-2010)
  • Guideline Development Group Member- COPD Guidelines Update 2008 National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (2008-2010)
  • Steering Committee Member- National COPD Resources and Outcomes Project (NCROP) (2007-2009)
  • Elected Chair of Trainees, British Geriatrics Society (2005-2007)
  • Elected Vice-Chair of Trainees, British Geriatrics Society (2003-2005)
  • Founding Member, Trainees Committee, British Association of Stroke Physicians (2003-2005)
Research

Research Overview

Academic Lead, Ageing Clinical & Experimental Research Team

His research interests include clinical epidemiology and outcome research in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, determinants of physical and mental ageing (healthy ageing), clinical geriatrics (extreme old age, disability, pneumonia, clinical nutrition, dementias) and health services research of conditions prevalent in older age.

Research Areas

Biomedical Sciences

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Research Specialisms

  • Healthcare Science
  • Databases
  • Gerontology
  • Dementia Studies
  • Epidemiology

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Current Research

Current research spans across above research areas using various methodologies and data source

Ageing Clinical & Experimental Research (ACER) Team

 

Collaborations

Funding and Grants

  • Alzheimer's Society
  • Alzheimer's Research UK Scotland Network
  • Chief Scientist Office
  • Dunhill Medical Trust
  • Digital Healthcare Institute, Scottish Funding Council
  • Medical Research Scotland
  • Morningfield Association
  • National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Programme
  • National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme
  • National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Programme Grant for Applied Research (PGAR)
  • NHS R&D (Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust)
  • NHS Grampian Endowment Research Grant
  • Oral and Dental Research Trust
  • Sir Halley Stewart Trust
  • Tenovus Scotland
Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Undergraduate teaching/education

Postgraduate teaching/supervision

Research Project Supervision (Undergraduate/Postgraduate)

    • Summer Research Scholarship Students
    • Summer Vacation Research Students
    • Specialist Registrar (STR) Research Projects
    • Thesis supervision: MSc in Public Health, and MSc in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, MSc in Data Science, Master of Research (MRes), and Master of Public Health (MPH)
    • PhD supervision
    • BSc (Hon.) Research Projects
    • BMedSci Research Projects

Non-course Teaching Responsibilities

I am one of the Faculty Members of International Workshop in Clinical Epidemiology - an introductory epidemiology workshop held annually in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in collaboration of University of Malaya and Perdana University, Malaysia.  

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