Happy birthday to Academician Camilo C. Roa Jr.!
Dr. Roa is an internationally recognized expert in Respiratory Medicine. He is recognized for his pioneering and translational research on tuberculosis that explored outpatient Supervised Short-course Chemotherapy, which contributed to the adoption of WHO’s Directly Observed Therapy Short course or DOTS strategy in the national program. He strategized the creation of collaborative public-private mix DOTS that brought private and government TB workers together, which became a model for the Stop TB Partnership at the WHO Geneva. Dr. Roa invented the Pulmo 1 Ambubagger, a temporary device that can be used in the absence of a ventilator.
Update: Congratulations Academician Camilo C. Roa, New Professor Emeritus University of the Philippines Manila.
Dr. Camilo C. Roa, Jr. is recognized for his pioneering and translational researches on tuberculosis that explored outpatient Supervised Short-course Chemotherapy, which contributed to the adoption of WHO’s Directly Observed Therapy Short course or DOTS strategy in the national program. He strategized the creation of collaborative public-private mix DOTS that brought private and government TB workers together, which became a model for the Stop TB Partnership at the WHO Geneva.
To address the lack of ventilators, Dr. Roa invented the Pulmo 1 Ambubagger, which is a temporary device that can be used in the absence of a ventilator. He published the Normal Reference Values for Lung Function Tests among Filipinos and co-authored the “Philippine Consensus Report on the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma”.
Dr. Roa is currently the president of the Philippine Tuberculosis Society, Inc. and the founder of the Philippines Coalition Against Tuberculosis. He is also a member of the Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis, Western Pacific Region, WHO. In 2019, he retired as Professor 12 from the Department of Physiology and the Department of Medicine of the University of the Philippines Manila. He left the university with a legacy of over 30 years of teaching students and experimental innovations that he tasked his successors to build on. He touched the lives of over 6000 physicians, 1000 dentists, and 3600 allied medical professionals who are now responsible for delivering humane expert care in our country and abroad.
Dr. Roa obtained his Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) from Velez College in 1973 and his Doctor of Medicine from Cebu Institute of Medicine (cum laude) in 1977. He was elected to the Academy in 2021.
For more information about Dr. Roa, you may visit the NAST PHL website using this link: http://members.nast.ph/index.php/list-of-nast-members/details/1/139
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