Full Circle Moment: Returning to Abelardo Hall

Full circle moment, I am back in a classroom at Abelardo Hall! Yesterday, August 12, was my first day teaching Music Education 196 (MuEd 196) – Introduction to Performing Arts Medicine for undergraduate students. This was followed by MuEd 230, for the graduate students – a smaller, more intimate class made more memorable by the […]

Tribute Video for Dean Mauricia Danguilan Borromeo

After a few not-so-memorable piano teachers who made me contemplate giving up on piano lessons, sixth grade 12-year old me somehow landed on Prof. (later Dean) Maurie Borromeo’s available 8 AM Saturday morning piano lesson schedule. I have to thank whoever assigned me to her upon enrollment in the [University of the Philippines] UP College […]

Performing Arts Medicine Clinic Goes Live!

February 10, 2024. Lunar new year (year of the wood dragon). Today I got to do what I set out to do in medical school: have a clinic exclusively for performing artists. Could not have done this without the support of many, many people across the years – grateful to them, and to God who […]