Society of Philippine Surgeons in America to Meet in Hampton Roads

NORFOLK, VA (07/25/2007)(readMedia)-- Norfolk, Va. (July 25, 2007) — The Society of Philippine Surgeons in America (SPSA) will hold its 35th Founding Anniversary and 33rd Continuing Medical Education (CME) Seminar in surgery in Norfolk, Virginia from July 25-28. All past presidents of the organization will be honored during the event, including Chesapeake resident and long-time Physicians for Peace volunteer Dr. Juan Montero, M.D., FACS. The conference will also feature, Dr. L.D. Britt, Chairman and Brickhouse Professor of Surgery in the Department of General Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, as keynote speaker.

Physicians for Peace, a Norfolk-based international non-profit organization focusing on medical education in developing nations, has a long partnership with the SPSA, including work on PFP programs including Walking Free (prosthetics) and Seeing Clearly (eyeglass bank and examination program). Other aspects of the partnership include programs relating to kidney dialysis, mental health treatment, lymphatic filariasis, and the establishment of mobile clinics to reach into remote areas of the Philippines to treat the most underserved populations.

“The SPSA has been a wonderful partner with Physicians for Peace over many years, and we applaud their continuing service and dedication,” noted PFP CEO Gen. Ron Sconyers (U.S.A.F., Ret.). “Dr. Montero is just one example of a physician who has dedicated his time, over many PFP missions, to helping the most vulnerable patients in the Philippines. Hampton Roads is lucky to host this dedicated group of healers.”

ABOUT PHYSICIANS FOR PEACE

Physicians for Peace is an international private voluntary organization that mobilizes healthcare educators to assist developing nations with unmet medical needs and scarce resources. Through effective, hands-on medical education and training, clinical care and donated medical supplies, Physicians for Peace creates long-term, sustainable, replicable, and evidence-based projects to help partner nations build medical capability and capacity to help themselves. Volunteers for the 501©(3) nonprofit organization have conducted medical missions in more than 50 countries.

More information is available at www.physiciansforpeace.org.

ABOUT THE SPSA

The Society of Philippine Surgeons in America, which was founded in 1972, is a professional association of Filipino-American Surgeons in the United States and Canada, whose membership includes past and present Filipino-American surgeons in the academe (professors, clinical instructors, and department chairmen of renowned medical centers in the country) and those in the various disciplines in the practice of their surgical specialties and subspecialties, from general surgery to vascular, gastrointestinal to thoracic, from neurosurgery to cardiac surgery. We are also proud to be associated with our brethrens and surgical colleagues in the Philippine College of Surgeons in the Philippines. For more detailed data on the foundation of the SPSA, please visit www.spsatoday.com.