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SESSION #2 - INSPIRATION: Heroes & Heroines

PANELISTS

D B M , . . graduated from UP in 1986
with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She was in the top 20 of
the Philippine Board Exam in Nursing which was released in the same
year she graduated. A er gradua on, Daisy worked as a staff nurse at
the Philippine General Hospital Medical Ward and Intensive Care
Unit. She migrated to the US in 1989 and started working at Englewood
Hospital and Medical Center where she s ll works to this day. She is
curren ng in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit, specializing in open
heart surgeries. Daisy is a mother of three young men, two of whom
graduated from college and the youngest is a college freshman at the
Steven Ins tute of Technology in New Jersey.
Currently, Daisy is UPAAA’s Regional Vice President for the East and
secretary of UPAA-NJ Chapter. She is also a board member of the Han-dang Tumulong Foundation Inc.
Her advocacy in life is to help others, especially underprivileged children and students.

J “J ” R. W is a Speech‐Language
Pathologist with 33 years of clinical and teaching experience,
specializing in pediatric speech‐language pathology, and has been
working in Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) for 16 years. She
has assumed several leadership roles within the Communica on
Disorders Department at FCPS since she started working there.
Jessie’s clinical interest and exper se include developmental
delays, au sm, intellectual disability, specific learning disability,
speech sound produc on, stu ering, language and literacy, and
Augmenta ve and Alterna ve Communica on. Jessie founded the
Communicare Therapy Center for Children in Paranaque in 1994
a er working for two private schools.
She enjoyed teaching undergraduate and graduate students, as well as supervising
interns at the UP Manila College of Allied Medical Professions. Jessie completed her Master
in Health Professions Education in UP Manila, and her Master of Science in Speech-Language
Pathology at the California State East Bay. A founding member of the Philippine Ass’n. of
Speech Pathologists, she was its third president.