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Philip S. Chua, MD, FACS, FPCS

Philip S. Chua, MD, FACS, FPCS, is Cardiac Surgeon Emeritus in Northwest Indiana, where he practised cardiovascular surgery in 1972 immediately following his Fellowship in cardiac surgery under Denton Cooley at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston.

His book, entitled Let’s Stop ‘Killing’ Our Children (Healthy Lifestyle Starts in the Womb and Dieting Bergins in the Crib to protect the integrity of the DNA), which came out August 25, 2011, as a part of his personal campaign for public health education and disease prevention,  carried the Foreword of his mentor, Dr Cooley. The author observes that "most disease known to man are self-induced, and are, therefore, preventable." Dr. Chua laments that "most of us have somehow unwittingly programmed our mindset and behavior in a self-destruct and slow-suicide mode, which passive surrender and fatalistic attitude this book aims to change."

Dr Chua is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the Philippine College of Surgeons, the International College of Surgeons, and the Denton A. Cooley Cardiovascular Surgical Society.

When he took his Associate in Arts degree and a course in Journalism at the University of the Philippines in 1954, Philip became a science columnist of The Philippine Collegian, and an editor of The UP Campus Journal. The following year, he was admitted to the Beta Sigma Fraternity in UP, Diliman.

After his graduation from the Far Eastern University Institute of Medicine in 1961 as class president and one of the seven outstanding members of his class, Philip, who was then the national president of the Student PMA, represented the Philippines in the International Federation of Student Medical Associations in Israel, as a grantee of the Asia Foundation. He carried and presented the official message from then Philippine President Carlos P. Garcia before the General Assembly of delegates from the various countries.

In 1962, Philip, who was an Adjunct Surgeon at FEU Hospital in Manila, became the pioneer medical volunteer of the Work-A-Year-With-The-People project of then Senator Raul Manglapus, Manuel Quezon, Jr., and now incumbent Senator Ramon Magsaysay, Jr., and served the people of the doctorless remote and secluded town of Palanan, Isabela, by the Sierra Madre mountains. He was flown there by Mike Campos, President of the Philippine Insular Life Company, in his Beechcraft Baron, also carrying medical supplies. Mike would do that regularly as a friend of the Carmelite Fathers in whose convent Philip and his medical clinic were quartered.

Following this Palanan medical mission, Philip, whose 46-year old Dad died of heart attack in 1962, and his wife Farida Quiambao Isip, also of Class ’61, left the Philippines and interned at the Ravenswood Hospital in Chicago.

In 1965, Philip became the first Filipino to be accepted as a surgical resident at the prestigious Hines V. A. Hospital - Loyola University - University of Illinois program. There, he completed his 4-year general and vascular surgery residency training, followed by a two-year thoracic and cardiovascular surgery residency, and a 6-month stint at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago for pediatric cardiac surgery.

His Chief at Hines, Dr. Charles B. Puestow (known worldwide for the Puestow Procedure for pancreatic carcinoma), was so impressed by Philip in those almost 6-1/2 years at Hines, that some of his private patients, with their permission, were operated on by Dr. Chua with him assisting. In 1971, Dr. Puestow personally called Dr. Cooley and recommended Philip for the much-coveted Fellowship in cardiac surgery at the Texas Heart Institute.

In 1972, Philip was elected by his fellow cardiac surgeons as Founding President of the Denton A. Cooley Cardiovascular Surgical Society, an exclusive association of more than 900 cardiac surgeons from more than 52 countries around the world who trained under Dr. Cooley.

After his Fellowship at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, Philip moved to Northwest Indiana and started private practice in cardiovascular-thoracic surgery which expanded and eventually became a 4-man cardiac surgery team, the Cardiovascular Surgery Associates, which he chaired. Philip was active in medical politics on top of his busy practice.

After the declaration of Martial Law in the Philippines by dictator Ferdinand Marcos on September 21, 1972, Philip were among the ardent supporters of the Ninoy Aquino Movement of exiled Senator Benigno S. "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr., the arch-enemy of Marcos, and the Movement for Free Philippines of Senator Raul Manglapus, both anti-Marcos organizations in the United States. In 1982, Philip and Farida were guests at the home of Ninoy and Cory Aquino in Newton, a suburb of Boston. Before returning to the Philippines, Ninoy visited Chicago and the Chua residence in Munster, Indiana, where Philip gave Ninoy a medical check-up. Upon Ninoy's return to the Philippines on that fateful day of August 21, 1983, he was assasinated at the Manila International Airport. His wife, Cory Aquino, thru the world-famous bloodless EDSA People Power Revolution, dethroned and banished the dictator Marcos on February 25, 1986, and Cory was sworn in as the 11th President of the Philippines, returning freedom and democracy to the Philippines. For the 1986 Christmas celebration at the Malacanang Palace, Philip and Farida were personal guests of President Cory Aquino. The following year, the Chuas were invited to the Palace again, this time with their children. President Cory died from colon cancer on August 1, 2009. Philip, who is Convenor of the US Pinoys for Good Governance(formerly US Pinoys for Noy-Mar, with chapters across the United States) and the members of the USP4NM, intensively campaigned nationwide for the 2010 election of Benigno S.C. Aquino III, the son of Ninoy and Cory, who subsequently won by a landslide, and is now the 15th President of the Philippines.

In 1999, Philip completed the intensive didactic and laboratory hands-on surgical seminar on OPCAB (Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass on Beating Heart) Surgery, at the Boston University Hospital, under Professor William Cohn, MD, FACS.

Dr. Chua’s international involvement included:

Surgical Demonstrations of Coronary Bypass Surgeries at the First Teaching Hospital of the Beijing Medical University, Beijing, China, at the official invitation of Beijing Medical University, performing a total of 18 cases in 1989 and in 1991, with his Indiana cardiac surgery team he brought with him, including his associate, Dr. Victor K. O’Yek. The audience was composed of Chinese cardiac surgeons eager to learn western coronary bypass surgery.

Philip and Farida were also active in medical missions since the mid-80s, the latest one being in October 2011 in Macabebe, Pamanga.

From the time they arrived in Chicago on January 1, 1963, Philip held the following positions :

Editor, The PMA Chicago Bulletin, 1964-1965

President, Philippine Medical Association of Chicago, 1965-1966

Editor, Lake County Medical Society Bulletin, Indiana, 1988-1996

Editor, The Philippine Surgeon, 1972-1995

President, Medical Staff, St. Mary Medical Center, Gary and Hobart, Indiana, 1980-1982

President, Medical Staff, St. Anthony Medical Center, 1982-1984.

President, Society of Philippine Surgeons in America, 1984-1985

Chairman of the Board, Physicians Choice of Northwest Indiana (PCNI), the first PPO (the first physician-owned healthcare insurance service provider) in the area, with 5 hospitals, 52 pharmacies, and 120 physicians as members, 1985 President, Association of Philippine Physicians in America (APPA), 1986-1987.

President, Medical Staff, The Methodist Hospitals, Inc. 1986-1987.

President, American Heart Association, Northwest Indiana Chapter, 1988

President, FEU-DNR School of Medicine Alumni Foundation (USA), 1995-1999

Member, Board of Trustees, FEU-NR Medical Foundation, Fairview, Quezon City, Philippines (1998 -2008) Chairman of the Board, FEU-DNR School of Medicine Alumni Foundation (USA), 2002-2004

Chairman Emeritus, FEU-DNR School of Medicine Alumni Foundation (USA) since 2004

Chairman, Filipino United Network – USA, a 501(c)(3) Tax-exempt Foundation, an advocacy group for Good Governance and Ethical leadership in the Philippine, 2007 – present

Convenor, US Pinoys for Noynoy-Mar, now US Pinoys for Good Governance, 2009 – present

Cardiac Surgeon Emeritus, Northwest Indiana, since January 2001

Physician Emeritus (Surgery), Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital (since January 2011) AWARDS:

Most Outstanding Betan, BS Midwest Chapter, 1988 Most Outstanding Leadership Award, PMA Chicago, 1966 Most Outstanding Physician, PMA Chicago, 1967 Most Outstanding Medical Alumni, FEU-DNR School of Medicine Alumni Foundation, awarded in Anaheim, California, August 11, 1981.

Most Distinguished Betan in Medicine, Beta Sigma Fraternity, presented by former President Joseph Estrada, San Francisco, California, 1994

Sagamore of the Wabash Award (The highest civilian award bestowed by then Indiana Governor, now U.S. Senator, Evan Bayh), 1996

Beta Sigma Testimonial Dinner Honoree, Club Filipino, Greenhills, San Juan, hosted by then Secretary of Agrarian Reform Horacio “Boy” Morales, December 2, 2000 Crystal Globe Award, Asian American Medical Society -U.S.A., November 9, 2002

Most Outstanding Golden Jubilarian Award, Arellano High School, Class ’53, given on February 22, 2003 at the Club Filipino, Manila (Was Guest Speaker, Arellano High School Foundation Day, March 4, 2003)

Recipient, PEACE (USA) Most Outstanding Family Award (“A Family of Eleven Physicians”), June 14, 2008, Atlantic City, New Jersey MEMORIAL LECTURER:

The Dean Lauro H. Panganiban Memorial Lecture, 1998, and the Dr. Nicanor Reyes Memorial Lecture, 2000, Dr. Josephine Cojuangoc Reyes Memorial Lecture, 2013, JB Nolasco Memorial Lecture, 2013. COVER STORY:

Philip was featured as Cover Story, The Philippine American Medical Bulletin, Volume XXV, No. 8, August 1986

Cover story in The Philippine Heritage Magazine: “A Family of Doctors,” Winter 1998, V. Gendrano Publisher, California.

Cover Story of HEALTH News (Dr. Phil Chua, Cardiac Surgeon, February 24, 2003) a national magazine published by the Manila Times Publishing Company, Philippines, circulated also in other Asian countries

Bio sketch published in the International Who’s Who in 	Medicine, 	Cambridge, England, 1985 Featured in the history book The Filipino Americans (From  1763 to the present, Their History, Culture and Traditions), Veltisezar Bautista, Bookhaus Publishers, Farmington Hills, Missouri, 1998

Philip is a Fellow of the following professional organizations:

American College of Surgeons, Denton A. Cooley Cardiovascular Surgical  Society, Charles B. Puestow Surgical Society, Royal Society of Medicine, England, International College of Surgeons. Philippine College of Surgeons, American Thoracic Society, American College of Chest Physicians, and the Society of Philippine Surgeons in America An illusion enthusiast, Dr. Chua is a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians and the Society of Magicians (USA).

Dr. Chua was one of the initial seed organizers of the FEU-DNR-SM Alumni Foundation, with Dr. Jesus B. Nolasco in the late sixties. He has been active in the alumni foundation since it was founded in 1979. He and Farida have been staunch long term supporters of their Alma Mater and the alumni Foundation. They had donated generously for the relocation and construction of the present FEU-NRMF school of medicine and medical center in Fairview, Quezon City. Philip is Chairman of the Filipino United Network – USA, a 501(c)(3) Foundation in the United States, a coalition advocacy for good governance in the Philippines. He was Lead Convenor in Las Vegas of the US Pinoys for Noy Aquino-Mar Roxas, which has now been renamed US Pinoys for Good Governance after Senator Aquino was elected President.

As Chairman of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Cebu Cardiovascular Center of Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital, Cebu City, Philippines, since 1997, when he and Dr. O’Yek established this heart center in partnership with Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital, Philip has been shuttling from the USA to Cebu every other month to do cardiac surgery at CDUH with his local team until 2011.

He was the Vice-President for Far East of the Cardiovascular Hospitals of America (CHA), a builder of medical centers based in Wichita, Kansas, which had planned to build a state-of-the-art medical tourism center in Cebu, patterned after medical centers in the USA, honoring Medicare, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and other private insurance coverage. When the recession hit and dilemma in portability of Medicare coverage, this plan was abandoned.

Dr. Chua writes a weekly health and social commentary column for 4 newspapers and one magazine in the United States, 3 newspapers and one health magazine in the Philippines, and 3 websites on the internet.

His book, Let’s Stop “Killing” Our Children, which also contained an anthology of his socio-political commentaries besides being a medical reference for the lay public, was published by Xlibris, and has been available at www.LetsStopKillingOurChildren.com, www.xlibris.com, www.amazon.com, and www.bn.com since it was launched on August 25, 2011.

Philip and Farida have five children, who are all physicians, and four of them married to physicians as well. They have 10 grandchildren. They all live in various cities in the United States.

EXHIBIT:

Heterologous Cardiac Transplantation, Clinical Congress, American  College of Surgeons, Chicago, October 1970 (with Dr. William E. Neville, et al). BIBLIOGRAPHY: 1. Jagatic, J.; Chua, F.S.: Multiple Malignancies: Case Presentation. The Journal of the  Philippine Medical Association, Manila,   43:12, 1967. 2. Pifarre, R.; Raghunath, T.K.; Vanecko, R.; Chua, F.S.; Balis, J.; and Neville,W.E.: Effect of Oxygen and Helium Mixtures on Ventricular Fibrillation. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 60:648, 1970. 3. Chua, F.S.; ldriss, F.S.; Hamouda, F.; Raghunath, T.K.; Neville, W.E.; and Pifarre, R.A     Simple Method of Repairing Fractured Pacemaker Electrodes. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 62:457, 1971. (Reprinted in abstracted form in ICU, number 28, December 1971). 4. Chua, F.S.: Complications of Pacemaker Implantation: A Review. The Chicago Medicine, 75:977, 1972. 5. Chua, F.S.; Leininger, B.J.; Hamouda, F.; and Pifarre, R.: Broncho-Pleuro-Cutaneous Fistula Resulting from Infected Pacemaker Electrodes. Chest, 63:284, 1973. 6. Chua, F.S.; Chiscano, A.; Wucasch, D.C.; Chapman, D.; and Cooley, D.A.: Dermal Gangrene: An Unpredictable Complication of Coumadin Therapy, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 65:238, 1973.

7. Chua, F.S.; Bursca, P.A.; and Forrest, J.V.: Viral Labyrinthitis and Transient Phrenic Nerve Paralysis. Illinois Medical Journal, 143-345, 1973. 8. Chua, F.S.; Zvetina, J.; Raghunath, T.K.; Neville, W.E.; and Pifarre, R.: Surgical Experience  with Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients Receiving Steroids. Journal of the Indiana Medical Associaiton, 1138, 1978. 9. Raghunath, T.K.; Chua, F.S.; and Neville, W.E.: Radial Artery Cannulation. (Submitted for publication). 10. Magno, M.; Chua, F.S.; and Pifarre, R.: Trichinosis Presenting as 	 a Chest Wall Tumor. (Submitted for publication). 11. Chua, F.S.: PPO Opportunity Over Adversity. Indiana Medicine, 77:792, 1984. 12. Chua, P.S.; Carlos, C.J.; Gozo, Jr., F.R.; and O'Yek, V.K.: "Asanguinous" Open-Heart Surgery. VascularSurgery, 19:309, 1985. 13. Chua, P.S.: Hey, Maximus, Off Your Gluteus! Indiana Medicine, 78:518, 1985. 14. Chua, P.S.; Carlos, C.J.; Gozo, Jr., F.R.; and O'Yek, V.K.: "Asanguinous" Open-Heart Surgery. Indiana Medicine, 78:494, 1985. 15. Chua, P.S.: Quo Vadis Healers? Indiana Medicine, 81:969, 1988. LAY PUBLICATIONS: Sixty health-related articles and editorials, The Philippine Surgeon Bulletin, 1972-1995 Ninety six editorials, Lake County Medical Society Bulletin 1988-1996 Over 1000 health articles in 7 newspapers and on 3 websites on the internet, 1998-present. LECTURE CIRCUIT: Lectures and medical papers on cardiovascular diseases and advances in cardiovascular surgery in various medical societies, hospitals, civic organizations, in the USA, London, Prague, Beijing, Singapore, and in the Philippines. TRAINED UNDER THE FOLLOWING: William Cohn, MD, FACS, intensive didactic and laboratory hands-on surgical seminar OPCAB (Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass on Beating Heart) Surgery, Boston University Hospital, 1999 Denton A. Cooley, M.D., FACS, Surgeon-in-Chief, Texas Heart Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas. Charles B. Puestow, M.D., FACS, Former Chief, Surgical Services, Veterans Administration Hospital, Hines, Illinois; and Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois.

Herbert B. Greenlee, M.D., FACS, Former Chief, Surgical Services, Veterans Administration Hospital, Hines, Illinois.

Hiram T. Langston, M.D., FACS, Former Chief, Thoracic Surgery, Veterans Administration Hospital, and Professor of Surgery, University of Illinois.

William E. Neville, M.D., FACS, Former Chief, Cardiopulmonary Surgery Section, Veterans Administration Hospital, Hines, Illinois; Professor of Surgery, New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry, Newark, New Jersey.

Roque Pifarre, M.D., FACS, Former Chief, Cardiopulmonary Surgery Section, Veterans Administration Hospital, Hines, Illinois; Former Chief, Cardiopulmonary Surgery Section, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois.

Farouk S. ldriss, M.D., FACS, Head, Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. #