Health@Heart - By Philip S. Chua: Dr. Philip Chua is a Cardiac Surgeon Emeritus based in Northwest Indiana and Las Vegas, Nevada, who shuttles to Cebu every other month. He is also the Chairman of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital, Cebu City, Philippines, the Vice-President of Cardiovascular Hospitals of America (CHA), a Cardiac Surgery Fellow of Dr. Denton A. Cooley in the Texas Heart Institute of Houston, Texas, a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Far Eastern University (Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation, Fairview, Quezon City), the Past President of the Association of Philippine Physicians in America and the Society of Philippine Surgeons in America (www.SPSAtoday.com), a Pioneer Medical Missionary Volunteer to Palanan, Isabela (1960), under the Work-A-Year-With-The-People humanitarian project of then Senator Raul S. Manglapus, incumbent Senator Ramon Magsayssay, Jr., and Manuel Quezon, Jr, and a Recipient of the Sagamore of the Wabash Award, (the highest civilian recognition bestowed by Indiana Governor, now US Senator, Evan Bayh). Currently a health columnist in 9 newspapers (5 in the USA and 4 in the Philippines), 3 magazines, and 9 websites on the internet , Dr. Phillip S. Chua is married to Farida Isip-Chua, M.D., a retired pediatrician; they have five children, who are all physicians, and four of them married to physicians also. |
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