EDMIN MICHAEL G. SANTOS, MD

Board Certified, Philippine Board of Ophthalmology

Specialist in Retina and Vitreous

Comprehensive Ophthalmology 

• Current Positions

• Education

• Certifications

• Affiliations / Member Organizations

• Past Positions / Memberships

• Lectures/Presentations

• Television/Radio Interviews

• Publications

• Continuing Medical Education

• Research

• Volunteer Experience

• Press

• Awards

• Clinic Schedule

• Schedule at a Glance

• Personal Info

• Contact Information

Note: Resume last updated on September 1, 2005

Current Positions

MEDICAL

Chief of Service, Retina and Vitreous, EYE REPUBLIC Ophthalmology Clinic

Staff Physician, Ophthalmology, Asian Hospital and Medical Center

Visiting Consultant, Jose B. Lingad Memorial Hospital (JBL)

Visiting Consultant, Angeles University Foundation Medical Center (AUFMC)

Visiting Consultant, Fatima Medical Center (FMC)

NON-MEDICAL

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Education

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Certifications

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Affiliations/Member Organizations

1. Philippine Medical Association (PMA)

2. Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology (PAO)

3. Philippine Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (PSCRS)

4. Ophthalmic Consultants Philippines Co.

5. Active Member, American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)

6. Member, European Society of Retina Specialists (ESRS)

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Past Positions / Memberships

MEDICAL

Chairman, Ophthalmology, Mother Teresa of Calcutta Medical Center (MTCMC)

1996-1997   Medical Officer, Palawan Provincial Hospital, Palawan, Philippines

2002-2004   Member-in-Training, Association of Philippine Physicians in America (APPA)

                    (Louisiana Chapter)

NON-MEDICAL

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Lectures/Presentations

1. Cataract Surgery in Diabetic Patients presented at the Annual Meeting of the Philippine Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery in Edsa Shangrila Hotel on July 2, 2005.

2. Triamcinolone in the Surgical and Medical Management of Diabetic Macular Edema presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Vitreoretinal Society of the Philippines at Club Dive in Anilao, Batangas on March 18, 2005.

3. Management of Posterior Capsular Rupture during Phacoemulsification presented at the 2005 PGH ORAA Meeting at the Centro Oftalmologico Jose Rizal.

4. Pars Plana Vitrectomy for Intractable Diabetic Macular Edema presented at the 2004 Annual O’Brien Lecture at Tulane University Medical Center

5. The Importance of Eye Screening in Children given on Aug. 9, 2003 at the dinner meeting of The Eyes Have It Incorporated- an on-site school eye screening program

6. Triamcinolone-guided dissection of the posterior hyaloid presented at the 2003 Annual O’Brien Lecture at Tulane University Medical Center

7. Neodynium Yag-Laser embolysis for HRAO presented at the Fluorescein Conference at Tulane University Medical Center (2002) 

8. Age-Related Macular Degeneration Updates (2002) presented at the Jose B. Lingad Memorial Medical Center Department of Ophthalmology Conference

9. Ocular Allergy: Treatment and Assessment presented at the Philippine General Hospital Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Conference on March 1999

10. Case presentation: Slow-growing Retinoblastoma in a 9-year-old,  presented at the Philippine General Hospital Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Conference on December 1998

11. Career Guidance Talk given in February, 2002 at the Benigno Aquino Memorial High School, Concepcion, Tarlac

12. Santos EMG, et al.  The importance of Terson’s syndrome as a prognosticating factor among patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage presented at the St. Lukes’ Interhospital Resident’s Research Contest October 2000; also presented at the Philippine Association of Neurosurgeons Research Forum December 2000

13. Santos EMG et al. The bronchodilating effect of Sampaloc leaf extracts in Felis domestica (unpublished) 1992.

14. Retrospective study on choriocarcinoma in th Philippine General Hospital from 1986 to 1990  presented in the Pathology Research Paper Contest 1994

15. Serum cholesterol levels in albino rats as influenced by ingestion of varying amounts of coconut oil presented in the University of the Philippines College of Medicine Biochemistry Research Paper Contest (1994)

16. Effects of ethanol ingestion on the diving reflex in albino rats presented in the University of the Philippines College of Medicine Physiology Research Paper Contest (1994)

17. Santos EMG, Tabbada.  Leaf senescence in Vigna sinensis L. as influenced by KCN (unpublished) 1991- presented as undergraduate thesis

18. Santos EMG, Suero ANB, Fores M, Limpingco R, Añel R. Isolation and purification of human placenta lectin (unpublished) 1991.

19. Member, Board of Judges,  13th Annual Jose B. Lingad Memorial Regional Hospital Residents’ Case Presentation September 28, 2001

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Television/Radio Interviews

1. Cultural presentation in episode of Asian American Highlights shown at the New Orleans Fox Channel, April 2004.

2. UNTV 21.

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Publications

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Continuing Medical Education

1. Vitreoretinal Society of the Philippines Meetings:  Sept. 2004; Nov. 2004; Feb. 2005; Mar. 2005.

2. Annual Meetings of the Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology 1998; 1999; 2000; 2004

3. Philippine Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Meetings: Dec. 2000; Sept. 2004; Nov. 2004; July 2005

4. 2003 and 2004 Annual O”Brien Professorship Lectures, Department of Ophthalmology, Tulane University School of Medicine, June 2003 and 2004, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

5. 53^rd Annual New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology Symposium, February 13-15, 2004, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

6. 2004 Fellows Forum, January 2004, Chicago, Illinois, USA

7. Southwest Vitreoretinal Symposium, Oct. 17-19, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA

8. Conductive Keratoplasty Education Seminar Didactics and Wet Lab Sept. 27, 2003, Iberville Suites Hotel, New Orleans, LA, USA

9. Ophthalmic Laser Treatment Course (August 2002) Department of Ophthalmology, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, USA

10. Midyear Meeting Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology (May 2002)

11. LASIK Didactic and Wet Lab Course. St. Lukes’ Hospital (November, 2000)

12. 17th Congress of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (March, 1999)

13. Seminar on Ocular Diseases. University of the Philippines College of Medicine, Manila (September, 1999)

14. Basic Course Lectures in Ophthalmology.  University of the Philippines College of Medicine, Manila (January to March, 1998)

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Research

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Volunteer Experience

1. 2001 Medical and Surgical Mission at the Pampanga Provincial Hospital sponsored by the Lions Club and Circulo Pampangeño

2. May 2002 Cataract Surgery Mission, Mother and Child Hospital, Olongapo City, Philippines

3. Resource Person The Eyes Have It Incorporated Aug. 9, 2003- an on-site school eye screening program in Orleans Parish, New Orleans, Louisiana USA

4. Aug. 29, 1999 Talisay, Batangas Medical Mission sponsored by the Ugnayan ng Pahinungod, Manila

5. November, 1997 El Nido Emergency Medical Mission for Dengue Outbreak, El Nido Palawan, Philippines 

6. February, 2000 Antique Eye Surgery Mission, Antique, Philippines

7. Summer 1994, Samar Medical and Surgical Mission Samar, Philippines

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Press

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Awards

1. Member CELSO-JBL Team Third Place Winner in the Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology Eye-Q Contest September 18, 2004.

2. PGH Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Research Forum November 2000 2nd Place for the paper “Wound strength of experimental corneal perforations sealed with fibrin glue among cadaver porcine eyes”

3. St. Luke’s Interhospital Residents’ Research Contest October 2000 2nd Place for the paper “Wound strength of experimental corneal perforations sealed with fibrin glue among cadaver porcine eyes”

4. Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology Residents’ Research Contest 3rd Place Basic Category for the paper “Wound strength of experimental corneal perforations sealed with fibrin glue among cadaver porcine eyes”

5. Outstanding Intern 1996 at the Department of Orthopedics, Philippine General Hospital

6. Outstanding Block in Community Medicine given during clinical clerkship at the PGH Department of Family and Community Medicine 1995

7. University of the Philippines College of Medicine Biochemistry Research Paper Contest 1992 First Place for the paper “Serum cholesterol  levels in albino rats as influenced by ingestion of varying amounts of coconut oil”

8. Cum Laude, BS in Biology 1991University of the Philippines, Diliman

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Clinic Schedule (effective on September 1, 2008)

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Personal Info

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Contact Information

EDMIN MICHAEL G. SANTOS, MD

EYE REPUBLIC Ophthalmology Clinic

3/F Don Santiago Building Unit 310

1344 Taft Avenue, Ermita, Manila, Philippines 1000

• Direct: +(632) 536-2398

• Trunk line: +(632) 523-8271 to 79 local 30

• Email: michael.santos@eyerepublic.com.ph

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