Archive for November, 2010
Dr. Manny Cacdac, Chairman of the Hydrocephalus Foundation of the Philippines (HFP) joins the ranks of other outstanding Filipinos in the 2010 BPInoy Awards. This year, Dr. Cacdac was unanimously chosen to be the recipient of the exceptional talent and outstanding achievement in the field of medicine award. Now on its fifth year, the prestigious award giving body recognizes outstanding Filipinos who excel in their chosen fields of discipline locally or internationally. Its past awardees include multi-awarded international artist Ms. Lea Salonga and Mr. Diosdado Banatao, a Filipino engineer in America, with great inventions in the fields of computer science, electronic engineering and technology entrepreneurship.
Chairman Dr. Manny Cacdac & Exec. Director Bernardo J.B. Mitra, Sr. of HFP
The Movers and Shakers of HFP
Last year’s awardees include Ms. Cristeta Pasia-Comerford, the first female and the first Asian Executive Chef for the White House, Dr. Eli Remolona of the Bank for International Settlement (BIS) and famous painter, Mrs. Anita Magsaysay-Ho.
Dr. Manuel A. Cacdac graduated from the University of Sto. Tomas and finished his residency in Neurological Surgery at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. After finishing a fellowship in Microsurgery at the same institution, he joined the United States Navy as Asst. Chief of Neurosurgery at the Naval Hospital Boston during the height of the Vietnam conflict. He provided neurosurgical care to casualties of the war, all military personnel and their dependents in the Northeast, encompassing six States. After his stint in the military, he joined a multi-specialty clinic in Western Kentucky for 2 years then relocated his practice in Terre Haute, lndiana in 1975 up to the present.
He has served as Chief of Surgery and Chief of Staff at The Terre Haute Regional Hospital. He was a member of the IUMED Faculty of Medicine, lndiana State Campus, as Associate Clinical Professor from the mid 70′s to the mid 90′s. He is a member of the lndiana Neurosurgical Society and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He is also a fellow of the International College of Surgeons. He served as Past President of the Phil. Medical Association of New York, and New Jersey. Past President of the lndiana Phil. Medical Association, Past President of the Society of Philippine Neurosurgeons in America, Past President and present Convention Chairman, and one of the Surgical, Mission Team Leaders of the Society of Philippine Surgeons in America (SPSA).
For all his outstanding achievements in the field of medicine, he is most recognized for his humanitarian endeavors in the Philippines. He has been involved with the SPSA surgical missions to the Philippines since the early 90′s organizing, procuring supplies and asking for donations. The surgical team usually performs 300 to 500 surgeries each trip. Dr. Cacdac’s special project is the shunting of hydrocephalic children in the Philippines. Besides operating on these children during the SPSA surgical mission, he procures donation of VP shunts and goes back to the country once or twice a year to conduct the said procedures. He later formed the Hydrocephalus Foundation of the Philippines with a group of close friends who have the same interest in trying to save the lives of helpless children.
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Other links:
- Charice, brain surgeon hailed as BPInoys, Philippine Online Chronicles
- Charice & Dr Manny. Big Bank, Big Head, Big Voice, Big C, American Chronicle
- Charice & Dr Manny. Big Bank, Big Head, Big Voice, Big C, Pinoy Cinderella
