The speaker is one of the pioneers of Modern Trauma Care in the Philippines with more than 3 decades of work in Trauma, Emergencies and disasters. He was one of the original founders of Asian Collaboration for Trauma in 2012
He was appointed as the Health Undersecretary or Deputy Minister of Health of the Philippines (2010 - 2015). He was the government focal person and Coordinator of Foreign Medical Teams in Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.
In the University of the Philippines, he started the Fellowship Training for Trauma Surgery & the Residency in Emergency Medicine. He was a Professor at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (2007-10). He was International Associate for John Hopkins University, for the Hospital Preparedness for Emergencies (HOPE) course.
He was a Board member of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine. He is Professor & Chairman of Emergency Medicine and Trauma Surgery at Philippine General Hospital. His most recent government appointment as the special adviser of the National Task Force against Covid-19.