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11.14.2007

Paz Mendoza Guazon



Dr. Paz Mendoza-Guazon

  • 1st Filipina graduate of the UP College of Medicine and Surgery (1912)
  • 1st Filipina to obtain the degree of Doctor of Tropical Medicine and Public Health (1916)
  • 1st Filipina to attain full professorial rank at University of the Philippines (UP, 1924-27)
  • 1st Filipina to serve in the UP Board of Regents
  • 1st Filipina to write about choriocarcinomas as seen from the autopsy table
  • 1st Filipina to publish autopsy findings of "bangungut"


FATHER: Isidro Mendoza



HUSBAND: Dr. Potenciano Guazon


YEAR OF DEATH
March 10, 1967


USEFUL LINKS
First Filipino Women Physicians
History of UPMAS
UPCM - 100 Years of Heritage: Healing, Humanity, Heroism


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