I finished my BS Pre-Medical Course at the University of Santo Tomas. I studied Medicine at the same University and completed my Medical Post-Graduate Internship at University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH). I passed the Medical Board Licensure Examination (Oct. 31, 1973). I worked in government hospitals for 35 years as a General Practitioner in a rural Emergency Hospital to Medical Specialist III in a Teaching Training Medical Center (MS Anesthesia/MS III Training Officer and OIC Chief of Clinics); handled hospital programs on: HIV/AIDS; Family Planning lecturer and member Surgical Team; Counselling (to Staff, Trainees and patients); Alternative/Complementary Medicine; provided assistance in Medical Missions like “Operation Smile” conducted in the Hospital; and Public Health Radio Communications Out-reach programs (DWPE: Health is Wealth). I also earned my Master in Public Health at UP-College of Public health (UP-CPH) as a SEAMEO scholar. Utmost to my satisfaction, I have earned Career Executive Service Eligibilities (CSEE/by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) and CESE/by the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP). In my early retirement was given a stint as College Secretary in a budding Medical School, a very worthwhile service close to my heart, that is, motivating medical students to develop compassion and competence in their future profession as medical doctors. For now, I attend to Pastoral activities and community health as well as attend to medical consultations.

Awards/Honors/Trainings: Medical Doctor, In-Service Training in Anesthesia, Medical Specialist III-Anesthesia/Chief Training Officer; Master in Public Health (MPH)-(SEAMEO scholar); Career Executive Service (CSEE/CSC and CESE/DAP), Hospital HIV/AIDS Coordinating Team (HACT) & Resource Speaker; Complementary & Alternative Medicine Trainings through the Philippine Institute of Traditional & Alternative Health Care (PITAHC): Training and Orientation in Acupressure, Pranic/Energy Healing, Herbal Medicine; DOH Senior Managers Financial Management Training by the Asian Institute of Management (AIM); Operation Smile Hosp. Facilitator; Family Planning lecturer & Surgical team; Resource Speaker on Orientation and Re-Orientation Course on the Dept. of Health's (DOH) Programs; CSC Gov’t Officials and Employees Ethical Standards; Summer Short Courses at UP-CPH: Hospital Administration; Financial Mgt; Research Proposal; Research Ethics; Epidemiology, etc.; Program Trainor’s Training Courses; Consultative and Strategic Planning Workshops. The Hospital and the City Health Office were recipients of Training Equipment for my approved public health research proposals: Teen Clinic and HIV/AIDS Training Programs, respectively (by the Int’l FP/Pop Commission). Trainor’s Training Courses. Chaired the Hospital Employees Cooperative that made it to reach a “Millionaire Cooperative” Recognition as Consultant to a student research awardee. Memberships: Philippine Medical Association (PMA); Philippine Medical Women’s Association (PMWA), Society of Anesthesiologists, Dept. of Health's AIDS Society, Dept. of Health's National AIDS Council, Dept. of Health's Nat'l. AIDS/STI's Prevention and Control Program, Career Executive Service (CSEE and CESE)