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1.19.2007

Honoria Acosta Sison




Honoria Acosta-Sison

  • 1st Filipina physician
  • 1st Filipina graduate of an American medical school, Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (1905)
  • 1st Filipina surgeon
  • 1st Filipina obstetrician
  • 1st Filipina to perform a low segment cesarean section
  • Mother of Philippine Obstetrics


HUSBAND: Dr. Antonio G. Sison



YEAR OF DEATH
January 19, 1970


USEFUL LINKS

First Filipino Women Physicians
The First Ladies of Philippine Medicine
History of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology


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