• Birthplace : Dagupan city, Pangasinan, Philipppines
• Birth Date : July 25, 1931

• College : University of the Philippines (1955)
• Course : Medicine
• Post Graduate Training : Pediatrics, UP Philippine General Hospital and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio

• Studied malnutrition effects on the growth and development of children
• Conducted research in diarrheal disease
• Initiated the creation of the National Institutes of Health, the National Graduate School of the Health Sciences, and the National Telehealth Center

1. 2010 - National Scientist Award

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