First Filipino in Medicine and Healthcare

NAMES	PROFILES	YEAR
Jose Abuel	1ST Filipino Neurosurgeon to introduced ventriculography as a diagnostic procedure in the Philippines	1928
	1ST Filipino Neurosurgeon to perform the 1ST craniotomy for subdural hematoma in the Philippines	1928
	1ST Filipino Doctor to perform the 1ST abdominosacral resection of the rectum (Kraske operation) in the Philippines	1932
	Together with Drs. Jose Eduque, Andres Zavalla, and Pangilinan, they are the 1ST Filipino doctors to perform a modified synchronous combined abdominoperineal operation	1935
Felipe Calderon	1ST Filipino Director of the Philippine General Hospital and concurrent Dean of the College of Medicine	1912
Inez Cayaban	1ST Filipina Nurse in Hawaii
Lolita Compas	1ST Filipina-American President of the New York State Nurses Association
Gervasio Santos-Cuyugan	1ST Filipino Doctor to perform the 1ST pneumonectomy for a large tuberculoma in a 9 year old boy	1949
Joselito Danguilan	1ST Filipino Doctor to perform the 1ST tracheal resection-anastomosis in post–intubation tracheal stenosis	1984
Fe del Mundo	1ST Filipina and 1ST Asian at the Harvard University School of Medicine	1930s
	1ST Filipina to be certified by the American Board of Pediatrics as Board Diplomate	1947
Benvenuto Dino	1ST Filipino Doctor who used fetal membrane homografts in treating burns	1964
Jose Eduque	1ST Filipino Doctor to perform the 1ST radical prostatectomy in the Philippine General Hospital (PGH)	1920
Enrique Esquivel	1ST Filipino Surgeon to perform 1ST first kidney transplant in the Philippines	1968
Jaime Esquivel	1ST Filipino Surgeon to perform the 1ST video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) for clotted hemothorax in the Philippine General Hospital (PGH)	1993
George Eufemio	Together with Dr. Adriano Laudico, they are the 1ST Filipino doctors to render hepatic artery cannulation and infusion of chemotherapeutic agents for patients with unresectable hepatoma	1970
Enrique Garcia	Together with Dr. Romeo Zamora, they are the 1ST Filipino doctors to perform the 1ST Autotransfusion in elective thoracic surgery	1963
	Together with Dr. Cristino Lazatin, they are the 1ST Filipino doctors to perform the 1ST open heart procedure (a case of pulmonic stenosis under hypothermia) in the Philippines	1960
Gumersindo Garcia Jr.	1ST Filipino Doctor to perform the 1ST successful resection of abdominal aortic aneurysm with cadaver homograft replacement in the country	1955
Quintin Gomez	1ST Filipino Anesthesiologist “The Father of Anesthesia in the Philippines”	1949
Potenciano Guanzon	1ST Filipino Doctor to perform the 1ST sphincter-saving resection of the rectum in a female patient with rectal cancer	1919
	1ST Filipino Head of Surgery and Chief Surgeon of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH)	1917
	1ST Filipino Doctor to perform mastectomy at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH)	1911
Serafin Hilvano	Together with Dr. Leopoldo Lazatin, they are the 1ST Filipino doctors to perform the 1ST laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the Philippines	1989
Emilio Horilleno	1ST Filipino Doctor to perform the 1ST hemipelvectomy for a soft tissue sarcoma of the upper thigh	1952
Roman Ibay Jr.	Together with Dr. Pedro Reyes Jr., they are the 1ST Filipino doctors to perform a successful separation of a thoracopagus set of conjoint twins	1984
Reynaldo Joson	1ST Filipino Doctor to organize the 1ST Stoma Clinic in the Philippines	1985
Isabel Jugo	1ST Filipina to be accepted into the residency training in surgery in the Philippine General Hospital (PGH)	1915
Pedro Lavadia Jr.	1ST Filipino to perform the 1ST successful excision of a ruptured common carotid bifurcation aneurysm	1957
Cristino Lazatin	1ST Filipino Cardiothoracic Surgeon to perform the 1ST successful ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus, thymectomy for myasthenia gravis ,and transthoracic transdiaphragmatic esophagogastrectomy with an intrathoracic esophagogastric anastomosis for distal third esophageal carcinoma	1950
	1ST Filipino Doctor to perform the 1ST closed mitral commisurotomy was performed by Dr. Lazatin on a 49 year old male with mitral stenosis	1952
	Together with Dr. Enrique Garcia, they are the 1ST Filipino doctors to perform the 1ST open heart procedure (a case of pulmonic stenosis under hypothermia) in the Philippines	1960
Leopoldo Lazatin	Together with Dr. Serafin Hilvano, they are the 1ST Filipino doctors to perform the 1ST laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the Philippines	1989
Antonio A. Limson	1ST Filipino Doctor to introduce Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) for surgical patients	1979
Alfredo Ramirez	1ST Filipino to initiate the Master in Science in Clinical Medicine (Surgery) program in the Philippines	1991
Carmelo Reyes	1ST Filipino Doctor to perform the 1ST thoracotomy in the Philippines	1919
Pedro Reyes Jr.	Together with Dr. Roman Ibay Jr., they are the 1ST Filipino doctors to perform a successful separation of a thoracopagus set of conjoint twins	1984
Victor Reyes	1ST Filipino Surgeon to perform the 1ST transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary tumor in the Philippines “A Pillar in Philippine neurosurgery”	1971
Romeo Zamora	Together with Dr. Enrique Garcia, they are the 1ST Filipino doctors to perform the 1ST Autotransfusion in elective thoracic surgery	1963
Andres Zavalla	1ST Filipino Doctor to perform the first craniotomy for a brain tumor	1941