Dr. Tri Dinh is a gynecologic oncologist at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. He is the chair of the Department of Medical & Surgical Gynecology at Mayo Clinic and has been the director of the Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery Fellowship. His clinical interests include quality of life for patients with gynecologic cancers, minimally invasive surgery for gynecologic conditions and surgical debulking for ovarian cancer.
Dr. Dinh earned his Bachelor of Arts in biology and Spanish from Rice University in 1988. At Baylor College of Medicine, he earned his Doctor of Medicine in 1992 and completed an internship in 1993. Dr. Dinh then completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at The University of Texas Medical Branch in 1997 and a fellowship in gynecologic oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in 2003. His distinguished education and training gave him the experience to launch a career dedicated to advancing gynecologic cancer care, medical education and global health initiatives.
Dr. Dinh has received numerous awards and honors, including the Program Innovation Award from the Mayo Clinic Graduate Medical Education office. He has authored several publications and book chapters, and he has been an active member of many professional societies and committees, including the Society of Gynecologic Oncology, the International Gynecologic Cancer Society, and the American Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology. He is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and gynecologic oncology.
He is the president and founder of Project TVD, a non-profit foundation dedicated to improving health care in developing countries. In July of 2017, he started a fellowship in gynecologic oncology in Da Nang, Vietnam, as part of the Global Curriculum of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society.
Dr. Dinh’s commitment to quality patient care extends to his homeland of Vietnam, where he leads an annual medical team to teach local physicians how to provide better care for their female patients. He first began traveling to Vietnam on these trips in 1999, when he and two colleagues gave lectures and donated medical equipment they had brought with them in their luggage. Nearly three decades later, their work has transformed into annual or semiannual trips involving over 30 physicians and allied health clinicians from all specialties. During these trips, Dr. Dinh and his colleagues work and teach alongside their Vietnamese colleagues in the operating rooms or at the bedside, organize educational conferences and conduct simulation-based training for hands-on procedures. They have also helped implement new medical tools and procedures, including the launch of one of Vietnam’s first organized cervical cancer screening programs, and have raised funds for critically needed medical equipment and supplies, including $100,000 in radiation oncology supplies for Da Nang Oncology Hospital in 2025. In doing so, Dr. Dinh has led the creation of a health learning network that will not only elevate the standard of obstetric and gynecological care and save lives but will also continue to teach other providers how to carry on this essential work.
