by Abdelsimar Tan Omar II Φ2008B “Life still is a challenge as long as medicine is not an exact science.” You will be hard-pressed to find a doctor-researcher as prolific as Dr. Ramon Fabella Abarquez Jr. His career spanding six decades has yielded many of the seminal papers in cardiology over the years – pioneering works…
by Abdelsimar Tan Omar II Φ2008B During the PHI International Dinner of 2008, all but one of the brods from PGH-TCVS were in attendance. The onlookers knew instinctively that this impressive near-perfect show had much to do with the surgery consultants’ senior brod, JoeGon. Self-admittedly the “town crier”, JoeGon has been relentless in getting alumni brods to…
by Abdelsimar Tan Omar II Φ2008B Briefly describe your experiences as a UP medicine student. I was a renegade, still am. When Brod Ting Tiongco assumed editorship of the college’s student publication back during his clerkship year, he changed the name of the newsletter into its current name (UP Medics) and he did not just report…
by Rodolfo Uy Fernandez III Φ2008B Last June 29, 2010, President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino named the members of his Cabinet, which included Dr. Enrique T. Ona Φ’57 as the Department of Health Secretary. Just last November 4, Dr. Teodoro J. Herbosa Φ’79 took his oath as the new Undersecretary of the Department of Health. Yes,…
by Dax Carlo Go Pascasio Φ2006 On June 16, 2004, for the first time in history, a Filipino delivered a lecture at Harvard University’s Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital. The department chairman, Dr. Peter Black, M.D., Ph.D., invited him to speak about keyhole craniotomy approaches to anterior circulation aneurysms. In November of…