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2021 UPAAA Distinguished Alumni

F›½®‘®ãƒÝ F. SƒÄ㮃¦Ê MD

2021 UPAAA DisƟnguished Alumna in Healthcare Readiness in Military Medicine

 Held diverse medical posi ons: as a pathologist, laboratory direc-
tor, medical examiner, medical-surgical hospitalist, physician in am-
bulatory urgent pa ent care clinics and employees’ health clinic;
re red in 2016.
 Military medical prac ce- U.S. Army Reserve MC- Medical Corps
Commissioned Officer with responsibili es as Anatomic Pathologist,
Field Surgeon and General Medical Officer.
 Commissioned in Feb. 1984, as a Captain and worked as a
Pathologist, in the First Army Augmenta on Det. in Ft. Hamilton,
Brooklyn, NY; promoted to Major in 1988, to Lieutenant Colonel in
2002 and to Colonel in 2005.
 Mobilized to ac ve duty in Opera on Joint Guardian, to Wurzburg,
Germany in Feb. 2002, as back-fill to ac ve soldier-doctors called to
serve in Kosovo; mobilized, in Opera on Enduring Freedom and Iraqi
Freedom, to Camp Shelby, Ha esburg, MS in May 2006.
 Received mul ple awards including the Army Commenda on Med-
al and the Meritorious Service Medal.
 Re red as a veteran a er 25 years of military service in March 2009.

A®—ƒ Nç›Ýƒ SÊÙ®ƒÄÊ, MD

2021 UPAAA DisƟnguished Alumna in Gender Equality & Women Empowerment

 Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine, Diplomate, Subspecialty
of Pulmonary Diseases, Diplomate, Subspecialty of Cri cal Care Medicine
 Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, 1995 UMDNJ Robert Wood John-
son Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
 Chair, Pulmonary Department, 2001, Robert Wood Johnson University
Hospital, Somerset, Somerville, NJ
 First female, Board-Cer fied Specialist in Pulmonary Medicine and Cri cal
Care, including invasive Pulmonary Medicine, in New Jersey
 Fellow, American College of Physicians; Fellow, American College of Chest
Physicians; New Jersey Top Doctors, 2010
 Earned her MD from UP in 1976 & BS Pre-Med from UP Diliman in 1972.