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Kara Magsanoc- Alikpala is the founding president and of the ICANSERVE Foundation, and Vice President for Internal Affairs of Cancer Coalition Philippines. She is a journalist and filmmaker. Kara is a breast cancer survivor of 22 years.
More information about speakerCrisann co-founded ICANSERVE FOUNDATION 20 years ago with three other friends, shortly after her diagnosis at the young age of 26. She currently serves as ICANSERVE’s Chair, and is a proud soccer mom to three wonderful boys.
More information about speakerRanjit, a breast cancer survivor since 1998, has a basic qualification in Physiotherapy and a Master of Science degree in Community Disability Studies from University College London.
She is a patient advocate and the President of Breast Cancer Welfare Association Malaysia. Ranjit is a board member and former president of Reach to Recovery International (RRI), a global breast cancer support and advocacy program. She was elected to the Executive Committee of the Advanced Breast Cancer Global Alliance in December 2017, representing low, lower middle- and upper middle-income countries. Ranjit is also a Patient Advocate and former Board Member the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC).
Alya B. Honasan is a consulting desk editor of Philippine Daily Inquirer's Lifestyle section. She has edited and written for over 30 books on the environment, culture, and other subjects. She is an Iyengar yoga teacher and a six-year breast cancer survivor, is living with clinical depression, and is mom to two rescued asPins, Kiko and Kikay.
More information about speakerKarmina Constantino is a veteran news anchor and journalist with ABS-CBN and ANC, having appeared on TV Patrol, The World Tonight Saturday Edition, ANC Mornings, ANC Live with Karmina Constantino, and Balitang America. She is a proud wife and mother, and yoga and pilates enthusiast.
More information about speakerDr. Justin Benigno S. Aquino graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University with a cum laude in BS Psychology. He earned his doctorate in Medicine at the University of the East Medical Center, before completing his internship training at the Makati Medical Center. He is the current chief resident physician for the Makati Medical Center's Section of Psychiatry, Department of Neurosciences. Dr. Aquino has worked as a theatre actor and English teacher. He has recently given lectures on Depression, Suicide, and the role of religions in Mental Health. His other advocacies beyond Mental Health include secularism, atheism, humanism, scientific literacy, and animal rights.
More information about speakerDr. Kho is a general surgeon and surgical oncologist, and VP for Medical Service Operations at Manila Doctors Hospital. He has trained and practiced at the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California. He is also a professor at the UP College of Medicine-Philippine General Hospital.
Dr. Kho is one of the original ICANSERVE volunteer doctors, generously sharing his time and expertise to the foundation over the past 20 years in various capacities.
Melissa De Leon-Joseph is grateful for her second lease on life and all the sweet blessings that come her way. She is paying it forward through the support group she started, Project Pink. Project Pink regularly collaborates with ICANSERVE on its promotion of early breast cancer detection campaigns.
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Dr. Lopez is a medical oncologist and hematologist practicing in two hospitals in Metro Manila. As head of St. Luke’s Medical Center Global City’s Bone and Marrow Transplant Unit as well as its Stem Cell Center, he pioneered Mismatch Stem Cell Transplantation in the Philippines. His leadership has benefited patients without a complete matched sibling donor, giving them a greater chance to proceed with treatment.
Dr. Lopez is a longtime, loyal volunteer doctor for ICANSERVE. He has lent his expertise as a regular speaker and in training numerous local government unit medical teams for ICANSERVE’s flagship program, Ating Dibdibin.
Dr. Gia Sison is a doctor specializing in Occupational Medicine and is a graduate of the University of Santo Tomas. She is also a breast cancer survivor and advocate, serving as the Philippine Leader for Livestrong Foundation.
More information about speakerPaolo is the CEO of AIDE, a mobile application that enables people to schedule non-emergency home-based medical care.
More information about speakerMAGIS Creative Spaces is a center for creative education, therapies, and consulting for wellbeing, learning, and healing in different contexts. MAGIS serves individuals, groups, and communities. MAGIS launched the Expressive Arts Network, an online community of art enthusiasts who believe in the expressive arts for healing, education, peace-building and social transformation, who share events and ideas about the arts for wellness and healing and learning.
More information about speakerRaymond has been working with urban and rural poor communities in the Philippines since 2007. He founded the Bridging Lifestyles and Health: Road to 100 advocacy in 2015 which set out to educate individuals from all socio-economic classes about the power of lifestyle change in the reversal of chronic disease. He is the founder of Nutrigeneering – a scientific wellness company providing nutrition solutions for individuals with chronic disease.
Raymond is a graduate of the dual degree MD-MBA program from the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health. Realizing his knowledge gap in nutrition and lifestyle change as it applied to chronic disease management he sought to expand his skills and finished the Masters in Nutrition for Wellness program at Bastyr University. He then completed his certification at the Institute for Functional Medicine and was awarded certification status in January 2019.
Gawad Kalinga Volunteer. Anak TV Spokesperson. World Wide Fund for Nature Ambassador. Member, International Olympic Committee.
More information about speakerDr Ava Angela Arugay-Magat is an occupational medicine specialist with a strong background in corporate wellness, and trained in production health and safety in the entertainment industry. Working closely with local and foreign film crews like Survivor and Bourne Legacy, Dr Zoe, along with the safety and creative team minimized risk exposure in the workplace while maintaining their desired creative direction.
More information about speakerAfter having graduated from Macquarie University in New South Wales, Australia, with a degree in Media and Cultural Studies, Lexi Schulze came back to her home country, the Philippines, in 1998, to try all avenues of media on the lifestyle front—from being a newspaper columnist to radio jock, magazine editor to TV writer and producer—before finding a permanent home in the news channel ANC under ABS-CBN, one of the country’s top broadcasting networks.
Recently, Lexi was made to dabble in hard news, embracing new challenges and issues in the political and socio-civic realms as News Anchor. She currently anchors the weekday morning news program called Early Edition, and is also the host of ANC's Balitang America.
Madalene is a licensed Nutritionist-Dietitian specializing in Functional Nutrition. She currently works under the mentorship of Dr. Raymond Escalona, a Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner at LifeScience Center for Health and Wellness and the Director of Medical Education at LifeScience Institute. She provides, as part of his care team, personalized dietary and lifestyle interventions to a variety of patients. As the Nutritionist-Dietitian Educator of LifeScience Institute, she devotes herself to improving the country’s standard of care by educating health practitioners of the Functional Medicine approach.
Her degree in BS Community Nutrition at the University of the Philippines-Diliman has gained her competencies in community development, program planning and management, and training. She also had a short involvement in the field of research as a Project Assistant at the Food and Nutrition Research Institute-Department of Science and Technology (FNRI-DOST).
Pamela Monique Columna is a registered nurse in the Philippines and in the United States. She garnered her clinical experience from St. Luke’s Medical Center-Global City and worked as a nurse educator at Rachell Allen Asia Pacific where she educated nurses locally and in the United States for several years. She is currently taking up her master’s degree with a major in Adult Health Nursing at the University of the Philippines-Manila and is developing functional medicine training programs for nurses and other allied health professions as the nurse educator of LifeScience Institute.
More information about speakerAgot Isidro, ICANSERVE volunteer, and an award-winning darling of the indie film scene and telenovelas is also a guardian angel to cancer survivors. She is foremost, a true patriot. She will fight for the rights of the underserved sector.
More information about speakerDr. Agnes Galura is an internist and a fellow of Philippine College of Physicians. She works under Romlas Health Group as a Functional Medicine Practitioner in LifeScience Center for Health and Wellness, and as the Products, Services and Technology Development (PSTD) Manager of Global Medical Technologies Manila Inc. She is a member of the Institute of Functional Medicine and Society of Integrative Oncology.
More information about speakerDaphne-Osena Paez, UNICEF National Goodwill Ambassador and ICANSERVE volunteer, is a strong believer in keeping Filipino mothers and children healthy. She promotes two life-saving, life-giving crusades—early breast cancer detection as the first line of defense, and breast feeding as the best source of nutrition for babies.
More information about speakerLexi has been a yoga practitioner for 7 years and a teacher instructor for 6. She started with hot yoga then found her flow with vinyasa flow. After her first 200-Hr teacher training in NYC, she started teaching in Manila's Urban Ashram Yoga where she also studied perinatal, restorative, kids, and chair yoga. These different styles have helped her become a more versatile and adept teacher for a wider audience; she loves teaching kids, families (partner and acro-yoga), pregnant ladies, and senior citizens. She has also delved into the study of Kundalini yoga, a practice that incorporates mantras (mind vibrations), mudras (hand postures), pranayama (breathing patterns), and asanas (poses) in order to create a specific effect on the body and mind.
More information about speakerMichelle started her journey with the Sheng Zhen Meditation practice as far back as 1995. Around that time, she met her teacher, Master Li Junfeng, founder of the International Sheng Zhen Society Foundation who was then head coach of the Philippine Wushu Federation. He taught her tai chi and later introduced her to the practice of Sheng Zhen Meditation. Currently, Michelle teaches this practice in the hope that people can experience inner peace and a balanced state of mind in the midst of their busy lives.
More information about speakerMs. Limos is a Registered Nurse and one of the pioneers of the National Institute of Health’s Committee on Aging and Degenerative Diseases (COMADD).
More information about speakerDr. Redondo-Samin is a registered nutritionist-dietitian, a medical doctor, and holds a diplomate from the Philippine Board of Clinical Nutrition. As a clinical nutrition specialist, she is associated with Premier Medical Center and Dr. Paulino J. Garcia Memorial Research and Medical Center, both in Nueva Ecija, as well as with St. Luke's Medical Center and National Kidney and Transplant Institute, both in Quezon City. As an educator, she is currently part of the faculty of the Philippine Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, giving short courses for continuing medical education, and is an adjunct professor associate with the Faculty of Health of the University of Canberra in Australia.
A published author or co-author of several scientific research papers, her areas of interest include, among others, critical care nutrition, pharmoconutrients and oral nutrition supplements, functional nutrition and medicine, and the use of diet and exercise in obesity and in the prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases.
Having survived cancer in his 20s, Louie Sangalang is no stranger to overcoming adversities. Just recently, Sangalang conquered his greatest challenge yet after hurdling the arduous FWD North Pole Marathon.
More information about speakerDenise co-founded MindWorks Center for Mind Health in 2013, with her father, pediatrician Dr. Miguel Celdran, to empower individuals with or without disability, and improve their quality of life through optimum mental and physical health. She is a meditation teacher and the owner of The Good Seed Vegetarian Café.
More information about speakerAward winning news anchor Mitzi Borromeo was transformed profoundly by the cancer experience of her sister Patricia. She honors her spirit and that of other cancer survivors through the ICANSERVE Foundation.
More information about speakerNameeta Dargani is a founding member and President of the Art of Living Foundation, Philippines. She has been with the foundation since 2005. Equipped with a business degree from the European Business School, London, she is a mother of two young boys and along with her husband manages a family business.
Nameeta’s life's mission is to uplift and empower people from all walks of life with the techniques of the Art of Living that have enriched her life and left her with an unshakeable smile. She is a teacher of the Art of Living ‘Happiness Program’ as well as the ‘Breath and Sound Therapy’ workshop which is a free course designed for victims of trauma.
Nameeta has taught stress management techniques of the Art of Living Foundation to people from all sections of society including corporates, youth, business leaders, home makers, educators, social workers, law enforcers and prison inmates.
Award winning news anchor Mitzi Borromeo was transformed profoundly by the cancer experience of her sister Patricia. She honors her spirit and that of other cancer survivors through the ICANSERVE Foundation.
More information about speakerGang Badoy is primarily a writer, a public intellectual, and an alternative educator best known for founding RockEd Philippines, a multi-project creative collective guided by the UN Sustainable Development Goalsl. RockEd advocates civic education through rock and roll culture, mainly music and art performances and programs held with volunteer artists outside the classroom. She hosted the long-running weekly Rock Ed Radio talk show at NU107 and, following the station’s closure, at Jam 88.3.
Badoy is a staunch advocate of volunteerism and is a prime organizer of disaster relief operations. She is also the Director of Project Steady and is a Mindanao Peace Games Advocate.
Badoy studied at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. In 2010, she was recognized as one of The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS) and received the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) award that same year.
Certified Family Physician, Medical Adviser of the Buteyko Clinic International, Holder of an Advanced Certificate from the Buteyko Breathing Association, Co-founder, Controlled Breathing Association (Africa), Assisted in training practitioners from the USA and Africa, Resource speaker on the Buteyko Method in Africa, USA, and the Philippines, Author of the “Breathing Into Better Health” program and manual.
More information about speakerChristine Sotto Jacob-Sandejas, also known as Christine Jacob, is a Filipina swimmer, actress, T.V. host, and newscaster.
More information about speakerDr. Calma practices Internal Medicine and Oncology at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital and Cardinal Santos Medical Center. She has 21 years of experience and is a member of the Philippine Society of Medical Oncology.
More information about speakerPatty is a Former Bb. Pilipinas International (1991), professional model/image enhancement speaker, and MODEL coach and mentor. It wasn’t easy for her to go public with her cancer but when she did, she found it liberating and a golden opportunity to be a source of light for others on the same journey.
More information about speakerDr. Joan Mae Perez-Rifareal is a highly motivated psychiatrist driven to provide the highest quality of mental health care to all. She is a Diplomate of the Philippine Board of Psychiatry and a Fellow of the Philippine Psychiatric Association.
She served as the Chief Resident of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine in the UP–Philippine General Hospital, and finished a Clinical Fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore. She teaches at Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health, helping to train the future health care providers of the country.
Businesswoman, environmentalist, and supporter of the arts Maan Hontiveros is the original "I am woman hear me roar" embodied. Maan did not go public with her cancer experience more than ten years ago to protect her late father. He had gone through hell when Maan's Mom had breast cancer; she got sick when her father was in his 80s and she didn't want him to relive the pain and anguish.
More information about speakerDr. Tan is a Fellow and Diplomate of the Philippine College of Physicians and of the Philippine College of Chest Physicians. He is a Professor of Medicine at the University of the East College of Medicine and treats patients at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Manila.
More information about speakerDavid Celdran is a veteran broadcast journalist with more than twenty-five years of experience as a television news manager, anchor, reporter and producer in the Philippines. He is currently the host of ABS-CBN News Channel’s business and lifestyle program EXECUTIVE CLASS and Editor-in- Chief of ABS-CBN Publishing Inc.’s VAULT magazine.
More information about speakerInspired by the bravery of childhood cancer patients, including their own son Seve who battled and won against acute lymphocytic leukemia at the age of 3, Paul and Sigrid Perez partnered with Philippine Children’s Medical Center to found Project: Brave Kids. Since 2005, the organization has assisted children with cancer and their families, particularly indigent families with brave kids being treated at PCMC.
Paul also serves as the President of Cancer Coalition Philippines, the prime civil society organization behind the passage of RA11215 or the National Integrated Cancer Control Act. He is a father of 8 and owner of a famed local artisanal ice cream brand, Papa Diddi’s Handcrafted Ice Cream.
Menchie’s son, James, was diagnosed with and survived brain cancer as a teenager. She then founded Cancer Warriors Foundation, a Philippine-based patient support organization for families of children with childhood cancer.
Menchie is a globally known and respected patient advocate, having served in various leadership roles with Childhood Cancer International, the largest global patient support organization and advocacy network for children/adolescents with cancer and survivors, Union for International Cancer Control, the WHO Working Group for Global Childhood Cancer Initiative, and the Philippine Health Research Ethics Board. She is currently Vice President and a co-founding member of Cancer Coalition Philippines, the prime civil society organization behind the passage of the National Integrated Cancer Control Act.
Fr. Jerry was diagnosed with stage 2 lung cancer in 2018. Already a beloved minister prior to his diagnosis, Fr. Jerry’s experience as a cancer survivor has made him even more of a guiding light. His message of “Focus on the humor, not the tumor” has resonated with the cancer community, bringing hope that no matter how difficult the fight, there will always be a reason to smile.
More information about speakerDr. Cairo is the Program Manager of the Philippine Cancer Prevention and Control including Palliative and Hospice Care under the Department of Health.
More information about speakerLawyer, university lecturer, television host, and public service advocate Atty. Ma. Gabriela “Gaby” Roldan-Concepcion is now immortalized through a gumamela hybrid that has been named in her honor.
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