DR. FILOMENA SANTIAGO-SAN JUAN
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNA

The first obstetrician-gynecologist in the country with a PhD in the Medical Sciences is the only Filipino physician with internationally published immunohistochemical studies on paraffin embedded tissues of Trophoblastic Diseases that opened doors to other studies in this field. With the knowledge and skills gained from Kobe University, she pioneered the use of ultrasonography in OB GYN in the Philippines. Because of her significant contributions to OB GYN early on, she was awarded the First AOFOG Young Gynecologist Award in 1990 and FIGO Young Scientist Award in 1991.

Her other awards include the POGS Ramon Lopez Award for Community Service, UP College of Medicine Gloria Aragon Award for Most Outstanding Faculty Research, and the POGS Honoria Acosta-Sison Award of Merit for Research.  She is one of the Top 100 Women in Health Science of the Century chosen by the National Academy of Science and Technology and UP Manila and was featured in the book “A Century of Women in the Health Sciences (1900-2000 AD).” 

As a congresswoman in 2001, she established the San Juan RURAL HELP (Health, Environment, Livelihood Program) Foundation and implemented Medical Outreach Missions and Medical Eye Examination Outreach programs serving the remotest barangays of Mindanao. Her radio program “Tambagi Ako Doktora,” tackled Women’s Health in Pagadian. Through her project, “Tambal sa Barangay,” medical supplies and medicines were made accessible to the people. These projects bagged the award “Most Outstanding NGO” from then President Fidel Ramos in 1998.

She was recognized as the Most Consistent Outstanding Congresswoman from 2001 to 2003 for her socio-civic works and environmental programs such as the rehabilitation of the Oriental Mindoro rivers, reforestation of 40 hectares of denuded private and forestall lands of Zamboanga del Sur, and rehabilitation of the Bayog Dam. Through her Congressional lobby, she was able to build 400 elementary and high school classrooms, 100 bridges and roads, light houses and sea ports, and 15 SMART telephone towers. 

DR. REYNALDO O. JOSON

DISTINGUISHED MEDICAL ALUMNI
Dr. Joson is a community-oriented physician, medical educator, and health researcher who constantly strived for excellence and provided quality services to his community, patients, and students.
He worked in government hospitals (Philippine General Hospital and Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center) to cater to the needs of indigent Filipinos. He conducted and facilitated educational training programs to physicians in government hospitals in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. He created a surgeon-to-surgeon-less community program with a diploma in general surgery and health profession education. He promoted a community-based and problem-based learning curriculum in medical schools, namely, the Bicol Christian College of Medicine, Southwestern University College of Medicine, and Zamboanga Medical School Foundation. He conducted researches that promoted cost-effective management for Filipino patients and led to advocacies against unnecessary operations, procedures, and health practices. 

He pioneered innovative medical education in the Philippines, specifically problem-based learning and distance and online education in medicine. He established and developed the first Head and Neck Surgical Oncology and Surgical Oncology Fellowship Programs in the Philippines.  He has more than 90 papers; more than 80 books, primers, and course packs; 44 published papers with 4 international publications; and 16 research awards. He has been doing researches not only in clinical medicine but also in hospital administration and health profession education. He pioneered action researches in medicine and health-process-evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in the Philippines to make researches and guidelines useful and relevant in solving the country’s health problems. 

He is an advocate of quality and holistic patient care, serving as chairperson of the Manila Doctors Hospital Quality Council since 1998. He pioneered patient support group in the Philippines through the Philippine Stoma Association in 1979 and the MDH-Cancer Crusaders Club in 1988 (the longest existing cancer support group in the Philippines). 

DR. RAMON L. ARCADIO
OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR 
Dr. Arcadio’s contributions to the medical field are in the areas of undergraduate education (Doctor of Medicine), residency training, fellowship training, and graduate and postgraduate education.  His most outstanding achievement in the UP medical education is the full implementation of the 1982 BOR-approved Integrated Medical Curriculum (INTARMED) with incorporation of the Organ System Integrated Curriculum (OSI) in 2003 during his term as UPCM dean. He initiated and led the development of accreditation standards that are now being used by all medical schools for the past 18 years. He chairs the Accreditation Commission for medical schools.

Dr. Arcadio’s most significant contribution to the residency and fellowship programs, specifically in pediatrics, is the initiation and development of accreditation standards now used by 105 training hospitals. At the PGH, he developed the “Two-Track Residency and Fellowship Program” where a resident may enroll in a masters degree of choice while doing residency or fellowship. He facilitated the development, approval, and implementation of the MD-PhD Program for research-oriented medical students. 

He is also credited for, among others 1) making the UP College of Medicine the FIRST Philippine medical school and the FIRST UP academic unit to undergo voluntary external accreditation by the CHED-recognized PAASCU-FAAP; 2) creating the Social Medicine Unit as the FIRST and only unit in a medical school to enhance its social accountability and develop eight underemphasized areas; 3) establishing the first Department of Family Medicine in the Philippines and in Asia with an accredited residency program (1975); and 4) setting up of the first Medical Education Unit (a UP medical teacher training group) in the Philippines and in Asia.

DR. PAULINE CAMACHO
OUTSTANDING RESEARCHER
She completed nternal medicine residency in 1998 at the Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago, IL. In 2000, she finished an Endocrinology Fellowship at the Loyola University/Hines VA Medical Center. Having found her home in this hospital, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine. By 2012, she became a Professor of Medicine and  a highly reputable authority in clinical endocrinology. She has been an active member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists since 1999, and member of its different committees. She was elected  National President for 2016-2017. 

She was a member of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. She has numerous researches on bone metabolism, calcium metabolism, endocrine disorders, and osteoporosis. She was part of numerous editorial boards such as Endocrine Practice, Journal of Clinical Densitometry, and US Endocrinology; a reviewer for the Journal of ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Sciences, and Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases; and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology (Case Report). She currently serves as Chancellor of the American College of Endocrinology. 

Among her notable researches and clinical contributions in the field of endocrinology are the current national management protocols and clinical practice guidelines for osteoporosis through the AACE and ACE; section authorship for Self Assessment Program in 2008-2014 for the American College of Endocrinology, and several book chapter authorship of Osteoporosis: A Guide for Clinicians, 2007 and Metabolic Bone Diseases in Evidenced Based Endocrinology from its 1st edition to principal editorship of its 4th edition. She was recently recognized by UPMASA as a National Awardee for Medical Research during the 34th UPMASA Annual Grand Convention held in Dallas, Texas.

DR. ANTONIO M. MONTALBAN
OUTSTANDING MEDICAL SERVICE
Medical service has always been an integral part of Dr. Antonio M. Montalban’s life. As a medical student, as a resident physician in Orthopedics, and as a faculty member at the Department of Orthopedics, and eventually as chairman of the Department, he has always been into patient care, teaching medical students and residents, and improving the departmental environment  to optimize the delivery of medical services.

As Director of the Philippine General Hospital, he improved medical services for patients through generation of funds, prioritization of employees’ welfare, and enhancement of the learning of students and residents. He authored and published numerous articles, mostly research-based, geared towards the improvement of medical education and improvement of health care not only in the hospital but  also in the country.

His involvement in different health care organizations enabled him to provide and improve medical services and enhance learning. He has always been a favorite orthopedic surgeon of the UP-PGH community not only because of his expertise and winning “patient-doctor relationship” ways but also because of his ability to emphatize with patients.

DR. ROSE MARIE O. ROSETE-LIQUETE
OUTSTANDING MEDICAL SERVICE

Dr. Rose Marie O. Rosete-Liquete spent most of her academic life in Metro Manila and abroad, not only to hone her skills as a transplant and vascular surgeon, but also to exemplify her calling as a public servant and health professional to bring specialized health care to remote provinces in the Philippines.

As Executive Director of the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, she spearheaded the creation of Kidney Satellite Centers that train medical professionals such as transplant surgeons, nephrologists, transplant coordinators, transplant nurses, and other paramedical staff from various hospitals. The project aims to increase access to kidney transplantation and to prevent and treat kidney diseases in the provinces. The trained health professionals are deployed to operate and manage patients in their own hospitals. 

Dr. Liquete’s interest to capacitate hospitals in the provinces can be traced back to her roots growing up in a small town called “Banga” in South Cotabato. She religiously visits her hometown in South Cotabato to conduct medical and surgical missions and dental services. She personally organizes these activities and coordinates with the local officials in order to cover a larger portion of the community. These missions are in addition to her sustained advocacy in advancing renal health and transplantation. Dr. Liquete is also active in delivering community talks in various provinces nationwide in coordination with local government units. 

DR. LYNN B. REDOBLE
OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE

Dr. Lynn Redoble is a native of Cebu but schooled from high school to Medicine in Manila, and has now sown her roots in Mindanao doing various community services for 25 years now. She spent 8 years in Kidapawan, Cotabato providing direct health services, organizing community health programs and campaigns, training community health workers, and producing training modules for them. 

She touched the lives of the indigenous Manobo tribe in Cotabato and Davao serving as their consultant in primary health care from 2001 to 2005. Now, at the Fr. Fausto “Pops” Tentorio Foundation where she has been serving as Director of Primary Health Care Program since 2012, she has reached into the more underserved areas, including the Manobo indigenous peoples in Southern Mindanao from Talaingod to Arakan Valley in North Cotabato. Though with a small number of staff and being the only doctor of the foundation, Dr. Redoble has made up for this shortage of health professionals by empowering the people in the community, teaching the community health workers and the people primary health care. 
She has also produced 25 training modules in the vernacular for the community health workers. The Foundation now has five clinics across Talaingod which Dr. Redoble supervises. 

Currently, she is trailbazing a “responsive” curriculum for Community Medicine in didactics, community immersion, and research as full time professor at the progressive medical school in the Davao Region. She supports the midwife-nurse-MD ladderized curriculum of the UP Manila School of the Health Sciences in Koronadal. She spearheaded her silver jubilarian class’ Continuing Medical Education project in the said school bringing 10 of her Manila-based classmates to give practical tips on managing common emergencies and emerging diseases in the community.