Education
Born in 1940 in Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar, he graduated from Saint Paul’s High School in Yangon in 1957 and received his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree from University of Medicine 1, Yangon (IM1) in 1964.
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Born in 1940 in Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar, he graduated from Saint Paul’s High School in Yangon in 1957 and received his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree from University of Medicine 1, Yangon (IM1) in 1964.
Following his first medical degree, he went on to specialize in Preventive Medicine and Tropical Medicine and received postgraduate diplomas from IM1, Yangon (1968) and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London (1969). Doctor Tha Hla Shwe also received a Master of Science in Education from University of Southern California, United States of America (1984) and an honorary Doctorate degree in Medical Science from IM1, Yangon (1999). He served as the Deputy Director General of Health Manpower Department for three years and assumed the post of Rector of the Institute of Medicine 2, Yangon, in 1992, from which he retired in 2004.
He is currently an active member of the Myanmar Medical Association, in which he served as the Chairman of the Preventive & Social Medicine Society from 1994 to 1998. He is also presently a member of the Myanmar Academy of Medical Science, and is an advocate of medical audit and medical ethics among the medical practitioners in Myanmar.