SPSA Holds Spring Board Meeting with Nile Cruise
The Spring Board Meeting of the Society of Philippine Surgeons in America recently concluded with a cruise to the Nile River in Egypt, March 14-26. Some of the SPSA contingent
Canadian Plastic Surgeon Passes Away
SPSA just got a word from Dr. Bayani Ignacio, former SPSA president and a yearly SPSA surgical missionary, that Canadian plastic surgeon Winston Spencer Parkhill passed away January 15, 2019.
The Lady with the External Fixators
Medical/surgical missions are replete with war stories. Like the teenager who underwent a colostomy (an exteriorized segment of large bowel) when he was a child. His intestine should have been
SPSA Holds Board Meeting in Boston
The Society of Philippine surgeons in America held its annual fall Board meeting last October 22, 2018 at the Marriott Hotel in conjunction with the American College of Surgeons Clinical
Former SPSA President Dr. Agaton Gualberto Passes Away
Dr. Agaton Gualberto, former Society of Philippine Surgeons in America president passed away last September 10, 2018 from complications secondary to cerebrovascular accident one week prior to his demise. He
SPSA Fellows Award Recipients
Four Fellows of the Society, all former presidents of the Society of Philippine Surgeons in America, were recently awarded different awards for their exemplary achievements in their chosen field of
SPSA Founder to Receive Presidential Award
Dr. Hernan Reyes, founder and first president and CME chairman of the Society of the Philippine Surgeons in America will be conferred the Pamana Ng Pilipino Award by Philippine President
SPSA Stalwart Passes Away
Dr. Manny Cacdac , a neurosurgeon from Terre Haute Indiana, passed away last November 2 at his home in Florida. Doc Manny as he is known to every one, was
Former SPSA President Forms Hydrocephalus Foundation
Indiana neurosurgeon and former president of the Society of Philippine Surgeons in America Manuel Cacdac has recently formed the Hydrocephalus Foundation of the Philippines. In January 2010, shortly after SPSA
Antonio Alfonso, M.D., FACS Appointed Department Chairman
Antonio Alfonso, MD FACS, was recently appointed as Chairman of the Department of Surgery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, April 16, 2010. An established academician, clinician and educator, he now holds
Rey Cordero Second Stint as PMSNC President
California general surgeon, Rey Cordero, MD was inducted as president of the Philippine Medical Society of Northern California, at the 38th anniversary and inaugural ball, March 20, 2010 om Burlingame,