Geminiano T. De Ocampo` was a Filipino ophthalmologist considered as the Father of Modern Philippine Ophthalmology. He invented the De Ocampo Corneal Dissector.

• Birthplace : Malolos City, Bulacan, Philipppines
• Birth Date : September 16 , 1907 Died : September 2, 1987

• College : Univesity of the Philippines (1932)
• Course : Medicine
• Post Graduate (Masteral) :
• Post Graduate (Doctorate) :
• Trainings :

• Set Up the first eye bank and eye clinic in the Philippines
• Helped established the Philippine Eye Research Institute and the Philippine Opthalmological Society
• worked for the passage and amendment of Republic Act No. 349 concerning the donation of eyeballs for corneal transplantation
• 1956 - invented the De Ocampo Corneal Dissector

1. 1982 - National Scientist

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