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SESSION #4 - IMPACT: GIVING BACK
(Round Table)
2021 UPAAA DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

How did we successfully engage the alumni community to give?

MODERATOR

D . J Y ‐N is Professor at the Department of Phi-
losophy, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP), University of the
Philippines, Diliman. She has served as the Chairperson of the Department
of Philosophy and is currently the Director of the UP Padayon Public Ser-
vice Office under the Office of the Vice President for Public Affairs, UP Sys-
tem. She has just completed two Postdoctoral Fellowships at Kobe Univer-
sity, Japan where she worked on her areas of research and specializa on in
Environmental Ethics and Philosophy of Food. Her most current scholarship

PANELISTS

L P , M.D. UPMASA Dr. Publico graduated from UP
Diliman, Pre-Med in 1973 and the UP College of Medicine in 1977. While a
consultant in UP-Philippine General Hospital Department of Rehabilita on
Medicine from 1981 to 1988, Dr. Lourdes took courses in Jichi Medical School
in Japan and Ljubljana Rehabilita on Center in Yugoslavia, and a brief observer
ship in Stole Mandeville Spinal Cord Center in England. She was the head of
the Community-Based Rehabilita on Services Training Team when it was
launched by UP-PGH Department of Rehabilita on Medicine in 1980. Living in
New York City since 1988, Dr. Lourdes finished residency in New York Medical
College as Chief Resident in Rehabilita on Medicine in 1995. She graduated
from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in 2005. Since
2011, she has been serving the Harlem Community as Chief of The Rehabilita on Center at Harlem Hospi-

D M. R , RN, MSN, UPAAA, I . N

P 2020‐2021. Ms. Rodriguez is a nurse educator, author
and organiza onal leader in several local and na onal organiza ons of Phil-
ippine nurses. She is a published author of three books and book chapter
co-author of two others. In her work as organiza onal leader, she has gen-
erated support from the community of various charitable and social advo-
cacy projects that benefited the community at large and the University of
the Philippines.
Daisy holds three degrees from UP: Graduate in Nursing from UP-PGH
School of Nursing (1965), Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the College
of Nursing (1969), and Master in Nursing, College of Nursing (1971). Addi-
onally, she holds a second masters degree in Public Administra on/Health Services from the University
of San Francisco, California. She also received a Mini-Fellowship in Ethnogeriatrics from the Stanford
Geriatric Educa on Center, Stanford University, California. During her career as an educator in the US,
she held faculty posi ons in three nursing programs at the University of California San Francisco, San
Francisco State University, and Unitek College.