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Congratulations to Dr. Enrique M. Ostrea, Jr., Professor of Pediatrics at the Wayne State University and Neonatologist at Hutzel Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Dr. Ostrea led the team in the Philippines in developing the OstreaVent2 for adults last year. He was the honored recipient of the UPMASA 2019-2021 Presidential Award and the the

The Doctors to the Barrios program was created by the DOH in 1993 to address the lack of doctors practicing in rural communities in the Philippines . Since then, 36 batches of doctors have been deployed to various geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas in the Philippines to work in primary care and public health. There

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A team of medical and engineering experts was able to complete the prototype OstreaVent for adults (OstreaVent II) in a record time of 5 weeks. The OstreaVent II is a pressure or volume limited, time cycled ventilator with Positive End Expiratory Pressure Ventilation (PEEP), Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Ventilation (CPAP) and Biphasic Positive Airways Pressure

March 20, 2020 Dear UPMASA family: The burden of the pandemic with COVID-19 has, at the very least, consumed all our attention and disrupted our lives. The impact this had on our alumni organization is also considerable. The effect of this contagion had prompted us to have three Emergency Meetings amongst the Executive Board of