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Dr. Alfonso L. Doria

is one of the earliest pioneers of ultrasound in the country. He is the head of the Ultrasound section of UST Hospital for the last 16 years since its inception. He is a medicine graduate of UST, class 1953, and became the first resident in Radiology at UST Hospital. In 1960, he became a Faculty member of the UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, a profession he practices until the present.

1976, he was sent to the United States by the University of Santo Tomas to study ultrasound which was a budding medical specialty. He toured and observed in different medical centers like Yale University Hospital, Cornell University Hospital in New York, UCLA Los Angeles, and San Diego as well as in Tokyo, Japan.

He was the first president of the Philippine Ultrasound Society. He was also the Chairman of the Division of Radiological Sciences, UST Hospital, from 1985-1988. He was instrumental in establishing the ultrasound section of the UST Hospital.

Committed with the future ultrasound, he has labored much in launching ultrasound from its springboard to what it is now today. He also wrote several articles and researches in ultrasound. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the UST Hospital Bulletin for more than a decade.

He trained many ultrasonographers and ultrasonologists, many of whom are now practicing in the Philippines and abroad. He was instrumental in the establishment of ultrasound course for x-ray technologists. He has trained both medical doctors and students coming from Malaysia, and Africa and still receiving requests from applicants from Beijing, China.