Khin Maung Win (physician)

Khin Maung Win (; born 12 January 1949) is a Burmese physician, hepatologist, writer and businessman. He is one of the most successful hepatologists in Myanmar and has published many books in his career.

Early life and education Khin Maung Win was born on 11 January 1949 in Wundwin, Myanmar. He has six siblings. He is the son of Ba Gyan, a police officer and his wife Khin Khin. After his father retires from the police department, they moved to their home town, Wundwin. His mother, Khin Khin worked hard so that her children could go to school. Among her children, only Khin Maung Win passed the matriculation exam with three distinctions, and later he attended the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay. He graduated with M.B.B.S in 1972 and M.Med.Sc. (Int. Med.) in 1978 from Institute of Medicine, Mandalay. He also obtained his MRCP (UK) in 1984 and FRCP (Edin) in 1997 respectively. He was married to Khin Lay Yi, a physician in 1975.

In 1991, he received a scholarship as Senior Research Fellow from World Health Organization (WHO) and worked at Hôpital Henri-Mondor, Paris for one year under Prof. Daniel Dhumeaux. During one-year stay in France, was trained in clinical Hepatology as well as bench works on effect of TGF on Hepatic stellate cells and was able to publish two-peer-reviewed articles on liver fibrosis.

Business In 1994, he founded the World-class Laboratory at Myanmar. He is the Director of Yangon GI and Liver Centre which is the only one-stop medical service centre for GI and Liver Disease in Private Sector. He is also the Chairman of Win Sammering Company Limited and Win Hospitals Group of Company.