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    LEGASPI Nomination Papers For PGH Directorship (2015)

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    This document provides biographical information on Dr. Gerardo Dizon Legaspi, who is nominated to be the director of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH). It outlines his educational background, teaching accomplishments, research publications, administrative experience, qualifications, and flagship projects he proposes to implement if selected as PGH director. Key points include his medical education, neurosurgery training, international studies, awards for teaching excellence, research focus on brain tumors and aneurysms, leadership roles in national and international neurosurgery organizations, and goals of improving PGH infrastructure, informatization, and role as the national university hospital.

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    This document provides biographical information on Dr. Gerardo Dizon Legaspi, who is nominated to be the director of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH). It outlines his educational background, teaching accomplishments, research publications, administrative experience, qualifications, and flagship projects he proposes to implement if selected as PGH director. Key points include his medical education, neurosurgery training, international studies, awards for teaching excellence, research focus on brain tumors and aneurysms, leadership roles in national and international neurosurgery organizations, and goals of improving PGH infrastructure, informatization, and role as the national university hospital.

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    GERARDO DIZON LEGASPI, MD, FAFN

    Nominee for PGH Director

    TEACHING ACCOMPLISHMENTS
    EDUCATION AND CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT
    PRE MED

    University of the Philippines Diliman


    BS Biology (cum laude)
    1983

    MEDICAL EDUCATION

    University of the Philippines


    College of Medicine
    Outstanding Graduate in Clinical Clerkship
    1987

    NEUROSURGICAL TRAINING

    Section of Neurosurgery
    Philippine General Hospital
    1993

    INTERNATIONAL MASTERS
    DEGREE

    Neurovascular Diseases
    Paris SUD Mahidol University
    2003

    2010 UPMASA Outstanding Teacher in the Clinical Sciences


    University of the Philippines College of Medicine
    2005 UPMASA Outstanding Teacher in the Clinical Sciences
    University of the Philippines College of Medicine

    SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
    VISITING PROFESSOR , Grand Rounds ,Harvard Medical Systems/Brigham
    Womens Hospital, Farley Hall, Childrens Hospital, Boston. June 16, 2004
    Keyhole Approaches to Anterior Circulation Aneurysms
    SPEAKER, World Congress of Neurosurgery, September 2009, John Haynes
    Convention Center, Boston, Massachussettes, USA, Superoanterior Interhemispheric
    Keyhole Approach for Posteriorly Directed Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysms

    GERARDO DIZON LEGASPI M.D. FAFN


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    SPEAKER, World Congress of Neurosurgery, September 8-13, 2013, COEX


    Convention Center, Seoul , South Korea, Programmed Occlusion for Cavernous ICA
    Aneurysms
    SPEAKER, 83rd American Association of Neurological Surgeons Meeting, May 2-6, 2015,
    Walter E. Washington, Convention Center, Washington DC, Avoidance and
    Management of Complications in Aneurysm Srugery
    VISITING PROFESSOR LECTURER , Neurosurgical Grand Rounds, Gates Vascular
    Center , Buffalo General Hospital, New York , May 7, 2015, Surgical Management
    of Intraventricular Tumors

    RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS
    PUBLISHED
    Legaspi GD, Domingo FT, Intracranial Tumors at the Philippine General Hospital
    A Ten Year Retrospective. Philippine Journal of Surgical Specialties, Sept 1994
    Gigataras MT, Legaspi GD, Outcome of Treatment for Arteriovenous Malformations of
    the Brain: A Five Year Restrospective Series from the Philippines, Neurology Asia 11:
    91-96, 2006
    Legaspi GD, Jimenez KP, ACTA Medica Phillipinesia, Temporary CSF Diversion in
    Surgery for Posterior Fossa Tumors 2009
    Litao ML, Legaspi CD, Asian Journal of Neurosurgery, AVM Compartments: Do they
    modulate Transnidal Pressure? An Electrical Model, Vol 7 Issue 4 2012

    ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
    TEACHING
    TRAINING OFFICER

    PGH Neurosurgical Residency


    199

    CHAIR

    PGH Section of Neurosurgery


    2004-2007

    ASSOCIATE PROF 6

    UP College of Medicine

    GERARDO DIZON LEGASPI M.D. FAFN


    Nominee for PGH Director.p.3
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    SERVICE/EXTENSION
    TREASURER

    BRAIN Foundation of the Philippines

    PRESIDENT

    UP Medical Alumni Society


    2013

    EXECOMM MEMBER

    World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies


    Asian Congress of Neurosurgery
    Asian Australasian Society of Neurosurgery

    PRESIDENT

    ASEAN Neurosurgery Society


    2012- 2013

    PRESIDENT

    Academy of Filipino Neurosurgeons


    2011, 2012, 2013

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Academy of Filipino Neurosurgeons


    2000-2002

    SECRETARY

    Academy of Filipino Neurosurgeons


    1998-1999

    SECRETARY GENERAL

    ASEAN Neurosurgery Society


    1999-2000

    CHAIRMAN

    Organizing Committee
    9th ASEAN Congress of Neurosurgeons
    2000

    SIGNIFICANT QUALIFICATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS


    Dr Gerardo Gap D. Legaspi has exhibited a passion do his best since high school when
    he graduated from La Salle Greenhills in 1979, among the top of his class in the Brother
    Aloysius Honors Society. He carried this to his pre med course graduating Cum Laude in
    B.S. Biology in 1983 in UP Diliman . This while competing for the UP Varsity Track and
    Field team for 4 years, Captain in the last 2, and given the prestigious Sweaterman
    Award during graduation. In between all of these he was and officer in the Pre-Medical
    Society.

    GERARDO DIZON LEGASPI M.D. FAFN


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    In medical school he continued his love for sports and music while going through the
    rigors of studying and the wards. His organizational skills were honed further by
    putting together events as an officer for his fraternity, the Phi Kappa Mu. He graduated
    as one of the 10 Most Outstanding in Clinical Clerkship in 1987. He carried on this
    multitasking ability to Neurosurgical residency and finished as Chief Resident in 1993.
    He joined the UP Academe in 1994, getting promoted to Assoc Prof I in 2004 when he
    became Chief of the Section of Neurosurgery in PGH. He continues to teach students
    from the YL 3 to 7 giving lectures and conducting small group discussions, earning his
    promotion to Assoc Prof 6 in 2015. Early in his career he became active in International
    Neurosurgcial Organizations, organizing the ASEAN Congress in Manila in 2000, later
    becoming the President in 2012. His dealings with the leaders of World Neurosurgery
    facilitated the holding of Educational Courses here, benefitting his colleagues that can
    not attend expensive international meetings. Dr. Legaspi helped put the name of the
    Philippines in the World map by being the First Filipino to be invited to lecture in
    Harvard . Up to the present he is regularly invited to international meetings as a speaker
    and as visiting professor in major US Univeristies.
    His passion to improve treatment of Cerebral aneurysms and tumors led to milestone
    surgeries in the country such as keyhole aneurysm surgeries, awake craniotomy and
    brainstem auditory implantation. He continues to be active in neurosurgical
    administrative work even after having served the longest term that a president of the
    Academy of Filipino Neurosurgeons has had (3 years). He currently sits in the Executive
    Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies and 3 other regional
    organizations.
    Gaps commitment is not only to academic excellence . One of his constant concern is
    how to improve services to our charity patients, specifically to those in neurosurgery.
    Through his ties with leaders in the business world he was able to effect a constant flow
    of donations for patients needs and services using the Brain Foundation , of which he is
    the Treasurer, as conduit. A major achievement in this regard is the opening of the
    Pediatric Neurosurgcial and Craniofacial Unit, supported largely by private donations.
    This has allowed the timely and regular operations of more than 300 children with
    congenital CNS malformations annually , effectively eliminating the long backlog at the
    PGH OPD ..
    His true test as an administrator was experienced when in 2010 Dr. Jose Gonzales,
    Director of the PGH assigned him to the Department of Pay Patient Services. At that time
    almost 50 of the 298 rooms were closed and the physical state of those that were in use
    ranged from passable to pathetic. Process changes were initiated, such as improvement
    of billing and Philhealth services as well as setting up a customer care desk in the DPPS
    office. Guidelines were formalized and implemented to ensure efficient admissions and
    discharges. Dr. Legaspi was able to start physical improvements by soliciting donations
    from private businessmen as well as the UP Medical Alumni Society. To date , almost

    GERARDO DIZON LEGASPI M.D. FAFN


    Nominee for PGH Director.p.5
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    Php 30 M has been raised , 50 % of the rooms have been renovated and improved
    working conditions for the the staff have been initiated.
    Dr. Legaspi has chosen to spend 22 years of his professional life as a neurosurgeon in
    PGH. A decision which some colleagues and friends dissuaded him from doing. He now
    does more than 80 % of his private surgeries in PGH and believes that his patients will
    have a better chance of doing well with their treatment than in other hospitals that he
    goes to. He still sees private patients in other hospitals where he earns debts of
    gratitude from political leaders and business movers. He intends to take advantage of
    these relationships in facilitating donations, financial tie-ups and increase government
    budgeting for PGH.
    One day, Gap wants to see the richest and the poorest of our society admitted to PGH.

    FLAGSHIP PROJECTS
    1. COMPUTERIZATION
    Everyone knows that the backbone of an efficient organization is based on
    information technology. The UP System has initiated a University wide program
    in which PGH is one of the main beneficiary.

    2. INFRASTRUCTURE
    PARKING BUILDING
    Plans are already in place . We have to come up with a structure that is
    the needs and character of PGH.

    responsive to

    MAJOR RENOVATION/GREENING OF PGH


    In addition to the usual physical improvements , we need to start utilizing technology
    to decrease our electrical consumption . ( i.e. LED Lighting, Alternative power
    generation)
    Convert all 11 gardens in PGH to Healing Gardens
    Renovation of should highlight the historical value of PGHs architecture mixed with
    modern designs. This will involve planning for the whole of PGH so that the
    architectural features will be in unison.

    GERARDO DIZON LEGASPI M.D. FAFN


    Nominee for PGH Director.p.6
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    Create Wellness Centers for Personnel

    3. STRENGTHEN PGHS ROLE AS THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY


    HOSPITAL
    CREATE TRAINING AGREEEMENTS WITH DOH HOSPITALS
    This is one way by which PGH can help improve the standards of DOH hospitals, by
    accepting recommended trainess, funded by the DOH, to train in PGH.
    In return DOH will be asked to allocate regular funding to PGH , to support its goal of
    creating Centers of Excellence . We will propose to DOH Specialties which they dont
    have centers for yet.
    National Cancer Institute
    National Poison Control Center
    National Trauma and Disaster Management Center
    National Brain Center
    MORE ACTIVE ROLE OF PGH IN THE HEALTH CARE OF THE UP COMMUNITY
    NATIONWIDE.

    4. CREATE BANNER PROGRAMS FOR THE CLINICAL AND


    ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS
    Eeach unit in PGH should be given a chance to stand out and be proud of
    Its innovations and contribution to patient welfare.
    Multidsciplinary services should be organized under the office of the Director to
    address conditions where PGH can offer the best treatment. To name a few:
    Craniofacial Surgery
    Spine Surgery
    Skull Base Surgery

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