Dr. Le Thi Ngoc Anh, wife of the late musician Hoang Van, passed away.

Of the more than 150 students who graduated from Hanoi Medical University in the first cohort after peace was restored, only three were female. Ms. Le Thi Ngoc Anh was one of them. She was also one of the first to defend a doctoral dissertation in Vietnam.

Dr. Le Thi Ngoc Anh married musician Hoang Van in 1961, shortly after graduating and starting work at Bach Mai Hospital.

She was a scientist , educator, and practicing physician, but was known to the public as a muse, a pillar of the family, and a strong support system for composer Hoang Van throughout his creative life. She was the wife he was always proud of. Composer Hoang Van passed away more than five years before his wife. He died in February 2018.

The funeral of Dr. Le Thi Ngoc Anh will take place on September 28, 2023 (corresponding to the 14th day of the 8th lunar month of the Year of the Rabbit) at the Funeral Home of Friendship Hospital. The viewing will begin from 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM. The memorial service will be held from 8:30 AM to 9:00 AM. She will be cremated at the Hoan Vu Crematorium in Van Dien.

Dr. Le Thi Ngoc Anh is the wife of composer Hoang Van.

Dr. Ngoc Anh is wholeheartedly dedicated to the medical profession. During her time working at Bach Mai Hospital, Dong Anh Hospital, Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital (where she served as Head of the Pediatric Emergency Department), and later at Saint Paul Hospital (where she served as Head of the Nutrition Department), Dr. Le Thi Ngoc Anh was not only devoted to treatment but also passionate about scientific research.

Fluent in English and French, and able to read Chinese and Russian, Dr. Ngoc Anh has written numerous scientific research papers published in international journals in multiple languages. She has also contributed to writing professional books and training many generations of medical students.

After a training course in Paris and Montpellier (France) in 1980, she was one of the rare doctors in that first cohort to successfully defend her Candidate of Science (now equivalent to a PhD) thesis at the University of Medicine in 1986, during the first time Vietnam organized doctoral thesis defenses domestically.

After retiring, she was invited by an American non-governmental organization to work as a medical specialist for a humanitarian program providing treatment and funding for poor children in Luong Son district (Hoa Binh province). At home, she continued to examine and provide medicine to underprivileged patients for more than two decades, until 2015 when she was forced to retire due to ill health. At that time, she was 82 years old.

Le Chi

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