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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

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