IMPACT Foundation
The IMPACT Foundation of the Philippines is affiliated with three medical facilities in the Philippines. These are the Ilocos Training & Regional Medical center in Ilocos, the Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical center in Manila and the Maria Reyna Hospital of Northern Mindanao. These three facilities, with their 48 years of combined cleft care experience, are continually working to provide free surgery to poor children with clefts and to improve their quality of care. With the assistance of a Smile Train grant, IMPACT will be able to provide treatment to an additional 200 patients in 2007.
Fiorentino S. Solon, MD, MPH
President and CEO
c/o Nutrition Center of the Philippines
Villamor Interchange, South Superhighway, Makati City
Metro Manila, Philippines 1231
Phone: 632-8187397 or 632-8164240
Fax: 632-8187403
Mijares-Gurango Craniofacial Foundation
Since 2002, the Smile Train has provided grants to the Mijares-Gurango Craniofacial Foundation. Located at the Philippine General Hospital, Mijares-Gurango is a cleft-care foundation started by Dr. Pilita Mijares Gurango and her husband who wanted to fulfill their desire to provide surgical care to their country’s poorest patients. Since receiving its first Smile Train grant, the Foundation has been able to provide free cleft care to over 175 patients. With the renewed assistance of The Smile Train, the foundation will able to provide long-term cleft care for an additional 100 indigent patients.
Dr. Pilita M. Gurango, M.D.
Mijares-Gurango Craniofacial Foundation
28 Apollo St., Acropolla Subdivision
Quezon City, Metro-Manilla, 1110
Philippines
Phone: Ginalyn (+63917-8464462), Rhona (+639175284641), Amor (+632526-6956)
Noordhoff Craniofacial Foundation/Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
The Smile Train's first project in the Philippines was established with the Noordhoff Craniofacial Foundation (NCF) and the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (Taiwan). The goal is to develop a cleft center on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. The NCF has identified a qualified hospital in General Santos, Mindanao, and local surgeon Ramon E. Gonzales, M.D., an anesthesiologist, and a social worker/speech pathologist for further training. Under the medical directorship of M. Samuel Noordhoff, M.D., The Smile Train's support has enabled 250 surgeries to be performed by the cleft team in Mindanao and is currently providing for an additional 200 cleft surgeries.
M. Samuel Noordhoff, Superintendent Emeritus & Chief of Plastic Surgery
7F, Room 708, #54, Sec, 4
Min Sheng East Rd.
Tapei, Taiwan
Phone: 011-886-2-2713-5211 ext. 221, 02-2712-8002
Fax: 011-886-2-2514-0600
Web site: www.lovemakeswhole.org
Our Lady of Peace Hospital
The Our Lady of Peace Hospital was established in 2002 to provide the poor with access to affordable quality medical care. With the help of the Noordhoff Craniofacial Foundation, Foundation of Our Lady of Peace Missions, Inc., and a band of volunteer doctors, the Our Lady of Peace Craniofacial Center (OLPCC) was created in February of 2003. A Treatment Grant from The Smile Train will enable OLPCC to purchase new surgical equipment for cleft treatment that will help hundreds of children receive quality cleft surgery and provide 30 underserved children with the cleft surgery they need. Dr. Glenda H. de Villa will be overseeing this project.
Dr. Glenda H. de Villa, DMD
Our Lady of Peace Hospital
Coastal Road, Barangay San Dionisio
Parañaque City, 1700
Philippines
Phone: 632-829-5720
Fax: 632-825-7714
Philippine Band of Mercy
The Smile Train-Philippine Band of Mercy Cleft Program which began in 2002 provides surgical treatment to indigent children born in the Philippines with clefts. Cleft lip and palate teams at Pasig City General Hospital, St. Jude General Hospital and Medical Center, Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Hospital, and St. Martin de Porres Hospitals have been able to perform over 860 cleft lip and palate surgeries with funding from The Smile Train. Jesus Perez Cardenas, director of this program, and Drs. Raymund Erese, Stanley Kho, Melanio Cruz, Nicanor Reyes, and Hector Santos supervise the program. This year alone, Philippine Band of Mercy will treat an additional 250 children with The Smile Train's support.
Mr. Jesus Perez Cardenas, President
#22 East Avenue
Quezon City
Philippines
Phone: 9294075, 9290852, 9293298, 9286133
Fax: 632-404-2517
Web site: www.philbandofmercy.org
Zacariah Association Inc.
The Smile Train recently provided Zacariah Association Inc. with a Treatment Grant to provide free cleft surgeries for indigent children in the Philippines. Ms. Rudilisa Patricio will be overseeing this project.
Mrs. Felisa C. Dalupang, Director
Zacariah Association Inc.
Pk. 5 Bugallon Proper, Ramon,
Isabela 3319
Philippines
Georgia Surgical Expeditions
5673 Peachtree Dunwoody Road NE
Suite 870
Atlanta, GA 30342
Far Eastern and American Nurses Association of the Great Lakes
25830 Strathaven
Novi, Michigan 48374
Phone: 248-348-2466
Ruel Foundation
Mr David Cowie
Executive Director
Ruel Foundation
237 Warners Rd
Oropi, Tauranga
New Zealand
Phone: 6475795508
Fax: 6475795497
St Frances Cabrini Medical Center
Dr Florentino T. Afable
St Frances Cabrini Medical Center
Poblacion 2 Maharlika Highway
Sto. Thomas
Batangas
Philippines
Phone: 0437784811
Fax: 0437784819
Maharlika Foundation
Dr. Michelle Aportadera
Section Chief, Plastic Surgery Division
JP Cabaguio Ave
Davao City
Mindanao
Philippines
8000
Phone: 63822216447
Fax: 6382216447
Web site: www.maharlikafoundation.org
Cebu City Medical Center
Dr Mirela M Mijares
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon
Cebu City Medical Center
Rm 510 Medical Arts Center
Choag Hua Hospital
J. Llorente St
Cebu City
Cebu
Philippines
Phone: 639176299510
Fax: 639176763414
St. Scholastica's Bacolod Alumnae Foundation Inc
Ms Jean Trebol, Foundation Head
Dr Antonia Gensoli, Medical Director
St. Scholastica's Bacolod Alumnae Foundation Inc
2cd Floor, MC Complex Building
B.S. Aquine Drive
Baceled City
Negros Occ.
Philippines
Phone: 344413661
Fax: 344413661
Web site: www.ssabfoundation.org
Mary Johnston Hospital / Masonic Ward for Crippled & Cleft Lip/Palate
Dr Zuriel K. Tan
Mary Johnston Hospital
1221 J. Nolasco St.
Tondo
Manila
Philippines
Phone: 2454021 Loc. 224
Fax: 2454021 Loc 337
Web site: www.maryjohnston.ph
Craniofacial Foundation of the Philippines, Inc.
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
Dr. Teresita L. Tongson, Chairman
Room 305 Medical Arts Building
Sta. Mesa
Manila
Philippines
Phone: 6937147465
Fax: 6937147465
North-West Mindanao Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Inc.
Northern Mindanao Medical Center
Dr Stephanie Jacutin
Head and Neck Surgeon
1st Floor
Northern Mindanao Medical Center
Misamis Oriental
Philippines
Phone: 63888561387
Fax: 63888561387
De La Salle University Medical Center Cleft Project
Dr Nikki Valencia
De La Salle University Medical Center
Cavite
Philippines
Capitol University Medical City
Dr Roger Stephen S. Viajar
Capitol University Medical City
Lapasan Highway
Cagayan de Oro City
Philippines
9000
Phone: +63 9177120293
Fax: +68822724326
Cagayan de Oro Polymedic General Hospital
Dra Veronica Abellera
Plastic Surgeon
Cagayan de Oro Polymedic General Hospital
A. Velez Street
Room 28
Cagayan de Oro
Misamis Oriental
Philippines
9000
Phone: 8822721941
Makati Medical Center
Dr Benjamin G. Herbosa
Makati Medical Center
#2 Amorsolo St.
Legaspi Village
Makati City Philippines
1200
Humana
Dr Benjamin G. Herbosa
Humana
Ground Floor King’s Court II Building
Pasong Tamo Extension II
Makati City
Philippines
1200
Phone: 8112411
San Pablo Colleges Medical Center
Dr Gabriel Eala
Dr Maria Irene Tangco
San Pablo Colleges Medical Center
Maharlika Highway
Bgy. San Rafael
San Pablo City
Laguna
Philippines
4000
Luis A. Tiam Medical Center
Dr Rodolfo Hidalgo
Luis A. Tiam Medical Center
Bascaran, Solano
Nueva Vizcaya
Philippines
University of Santo Tomas Hospital (USTH)
Dr Norberto Martinez
University of Santo Tomas Hospital (USTH)
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
Room 5001
Medical Arts Building University of San Tomas
Espana
Manila
Philippines 1008
N.E. Good Samaritan General Hospital
Dr Lora Mae A. De Guzman
N.E. Good Samaritan General Hospital
Burgos Ave
Cabanatuan City
Philippines 3100
Philippine American Medical Association of Georgia (PAMAG)
Dr Paul Beltran, Chairman PAMAG
Philippine American Medical Association of Georgia (PAMAG)
700 Sunset Dr.
Suite 302
Athens, GA 30606
USA
Phone: 7065489111
