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The Ospital ng Maynila
Medical Center-Department
of Dermatology consultants
and residents

The Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center - Department of Dermatology and Phototherapy Core Group
March 20, 2018, Wack-Wack Golf and Country Club
Moderator : Dr. Ma. May Jasmin Ramos-Yason, Laser and Lights Consultant, OMMC Department of Dermatology
Welcoming Remarks : Dr. Benedicto Carpio, Chairman, OMMC Department of Dermatology
Case Presenters : Drs. Erica Teng and Jayne Bernadeth Li
Phototherapy Core Group Reactors : Drs. Ma. Lorna Fernandez-Frez and Patricia Anne Ty-Tinio
Speakers : Atty. Rodolfo P. Soriano (Pharmacy Law), Atty. Dr. Elizabeth Amelia V. Tianco (Privacy Act), Dr. Vilma O. Pelino (AAD 2018 Echoes)
Total attendees : 123 consultants, 90 residents

Tranquility: Safe, Sound and

Blissful Practice in Dermatology

Penned by Drs. Matthew Parco and Marlon Aljama
rue to its purpose, every CME AAD Annual Meeting was sounded off by
continues to be a venue for serving Dr.Pelino, the second part of the symposium
as powerful arsenals in helping focused mostly on legal updates for current
Tthe dermatologists achieve high dermatological care and concerns. On a
standards of patient care and navigate the lawyer’s stand point, the Pharmacy Law was
challenges of every day practice. adeptly discussed by Atty. Soriano, with an
interesting dissertation on the implications
Tranquility: Safe, Sound and Blissful Practice of drug registration, manufacturing, and
in Dermatology was a timely focus of the sale in our practice. This was followed by
March CME, coordinated by the Ospital Certificates of recognition for Drs. Patricia Anne Ty-Tinio a comprehensive talk on the enforcement
ng Maynila Medical Center-Department and Ma. Lorna Fernandez-Frez (center); also in the photo of the Privacy Act by Atty. Dr. Tianco, who
(L-R) are Drs. Eileen Morales, Benedicto Carpio, Ma.
of Dermatology, in partnership with Angela Lavadia and May Jasmin Ramos-Yason expounded on the medicolegal aspects of
PDS Phototherapy Core Group. With informed consent and record storage.
phototherapy as a procedural modality
long before we began our dermatology Once again, as the PDS President Dr. Ma.
training, its usefulness stays and grows in Angela M. Lavadia closed the day’s event,
time. In the afternoon’s CME, phototherapy she gave more recent updates regarding
was once again revisited, its relevance for the current talks between the PDS and the
pityriasis rubra pilaris and pediatric psoriasis, Philippine Food and Drug Administration,
demonstrated by the cases presented with the need to come up with more viable
and expounded by the leading experts in Guest speakers Atty. Dr. Elizabeth Amelia V. Tianco and lasting solutions that will effectively
phototherapy, Drs. Frez and Ty-Tinio. and Atty. Rodolfo Soriano joined by the CME Chair lead to a viable solution for both skincare
Dr. Chittina Santiago, PDS President Dr. Lavadia, and providers and patients.
As knowledge from the recently concluded OMMC-Department of Dermatology Consultants
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