Leadership

Executive Office

Luigi Borrillo, MD President

William Le, MD President-Elect

Mark Gonzalgo, MD, PhD Immediate Past President

Administrative Officers

Elizabeth Leynes-Le, MD Recording Secretary

Rosemarie Padua, MD Corresponding Secretary

Mary Ann Fernandez, MD Treasurer

N. Thad Padua, MD Auditor

Bernadette Roco, RN Public Relations

Members-at-Large

Brendan Duterte, MD

Jill Tiongco, MD

Jeremy Velasco, DDS

Pedro Cajator, MD

Permanent Committees

Luigi Borrillo, MD Executive

N. Thad Padua, MD Finance

Jill Tiongco, MD Membership

Bernadette Roco
Carmencita Agcaoili Medical Mission

Special Committees

Carmencita Agcaoili, MD By Laws

Ester Kotowski, MD Scholarship

Rosemarie Padua, MD Community Outreach

Sheila Gonzalgo, MD Fundraising

Edith Oliva, MD Sunshine

Past Presidents

In 2015, office tenure was changed to biennial.

2023Mark Gonzalgo, MD, PhD

2021N. Thad Padua, MD

2019Ria San Valentin Calinga, MD

2017Pedro L. Cajator, MD

2015Peter N. Bretan Jr, MD

2014Carmencita A. Agcaoili, MD

2013Leila R. Olivera, MD

2012Lourdes O. Agcaoili, MD

2011Robert Ang, MD

2010Reynaldo M. Cordero, MD

2009Victorina Brizuela Bach, MD

2008Clementina Manio, MD

2007Herminigildo V. Valle, MD

2006Emmanuel Cepe, MD

2005Marlene Cordero, MD

2004Carmelo Roco, MD

2003Agnes Y. Alikpala, MD

2002Corazon de Guzman, MD

2001Felicidad Lao, MD

2000Reynaldo M. Cordero, MD

1999Recto de Leon, MD

1998Agaton T. Gualberto, MD

1997Carmencita Jose, MD

1996Lene V. M. Martinez, MD

1995Adolfo Badillo, MD

1994Angelo Ozoa, MD

1993Roger Espiritu, MD

1992Cesar S. Ortiz, MD

1991Valeriano B. Viray, MD

1990Jose Rodriguez, MD

1989Eugenio Balbuena, MD

1988Lourdes O. Agcaoili, MD

1987Besosie Ganal, MD

1986 William Candelario, MD

1985Leonilo Malabed, MD

1984Teofilo Ulanday, MD

1983Aguedo Retodo, MD

1982Felix Agcaoili, MD

1981Antonio Abiog, MD

1980 Florentino Ibabao, MD

1979Godofredo Torres, MD

1978Angelo Ozoa, MD

1977Carlos Delgado, MD

1976Ernesto Hilario, MD

1975Leonardo Martin, MD

1974Eugenio Zarate, MD

1973 Rodolfo Duterte, MD

Rodolfo Duterte, MD Founder

Obituary Published in The San Francisco Chronicle on April 12, 2020

A devoted sports enthusiast, Dr. Duterte was a regular fixture at San Francisco Giants, 49ers, and Warriors games. In 1972, he founded the Philippine Medical Society of Northern California (PMSNC) and served as its first president (notably, our records also reference his role as founder in 1973). The society continues his mission today by providing student scholarships and leading vital medical missions in the Philippines. A man of deep faith, he was a stalwart of the Knights of Columbus and a generous philanthropist who supported the Star of the Sea and St. Monica parishes.

Born on January 22, 1916, in Cebu, Philippines, Dr. Duterte was a celebrated academic talent. At the age of 23, he made history as the youngest student to complete his medical studies at the University of the Philippines, a milestone that launched a long career in medicine that eventually had a profound impact in California.

His legacy of service began during World War II when he joined the Philippine Commonwealth Armed Forces as a 1st Lieutenant and Medical Officer. He served across Impalutao, Bukidnon, and Mindanao before being taken as a prisoner of war in May 1942. Following ten months of captivity and an eventual honorable discharge, he returned to medical practice in Cebu. In 1951, he relocated to San Francisco with his childhood sweetheart and wife, Martha O'Keefe, and their children. In his new home, he established a private practice on Mission Street and joined the medical staff at Mary’s Help Hospital (now Seton Medical Center).

In 2016, he celebrated his 100th birthday at the St. Francis Yacht Club. His lifetime of service was officially recognized in 2017 when he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. That same year, he made a memorable return to the Philippines, participating in a celebratory procession that took him from Malacañang Palace back to his childhood elementary school. He remained a dedicated, lifelong reader of The San Francisco Chronicle until his final days.

William Candelario, MD

Bill was a pioneer medical mission volunteer and Lieutenant Colonel (U.S. Air Force Reserve). Under his tenure, the scholarship program for Fil-Am medical students was established.

Florentino Ibabao, MD

Florentino was the original mission volunteer. He turned a 1984 family vacation in Aklan into the society's first makeshift surgical clinic, birthing the PMSNC mission legacy.