PARM-RARE FOUNDATION is a DSWD recognized certified NGO and registered with SEC on February 18, 2011. The Foundation was conceptualized to reach out to the growing number of marginalized individuals with various disabilities in the urban, suburban, and rural communities.
The Foundation seek to provide expert and compassionate care by establishing:
● physiatrist- led rehabilitation facilities with a team of allied healthcare professionals.
● rehabilitation-related educational and research programs
● pertinent advocacies related to promotion of wellness and disability prevention, as well as
● linkages with various governmental and non-governmental agencies to ensure meaningful and relevant long-term services to the needy persons with disability.
Prompted by the rapidly evolving medical landscape and the compassion to help people, the PARM-RARE Foundation was established by the Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine (PARM). PARM is the national society of physiatrists or physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists in the Philippines.
On February 11, 2010, the Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine (PARM) approved the creation of PARM-RARE Foundation in a referendum. The concept was for PARM-RARE Foundation to support and spearhead long term projects of Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine (PARM) in the areas of advocacy, provide community service for the PWDs belonging to the neediest sector, support research and education so that PARM members can produce research output of national and international impact
The year 2015 was considered a threshold year for PARM-RARE Foundation when PARM turned over the administration of PMA PARM Indigency Clinic to its care. As the Foundation’s first project, this concretized its commitment of providing accessible and affordable health care, wellness and rehabilitation medicine services for the underserved urban community. Another milestone was notched in February 2019, with the establishment of San Lorenzo Ruiz Rehabilitation Clinic in Navotas City. This satellite clinic serves as a model partnership for the setting up of accessible physiatrist-led rehabilitation services for underserved communities throughout the country.
Promote and support the advocacy, research, educational and socio-civic programs of the Foundation and Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine (PARM);
Enhance health promotion, disability prevention and patient care through Satellite Physical Rehabilitation Programs (SPRP) that are available, accessible and affordable; and
Establish linkages and network with government organizations (GOs), non-government organizations (NGOs) and people organizations (POs) for effective delivery of programs on health and wellness promotion, disability prevention and accessible physical rehabilitation services.
• Active Physiatry Consultant, Novaliches General Hospital
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Clinic, The Medical
City, Eastwood, City Government of Valenzuela
• Diplomate, Philippine Board of Rehabilitation Medicine
• Member, UST Medical Alumni Association
• Member, Philippine Medical Association
• Member, PARM-RARE Foundation, Inc.
• Medical Consultant, PARM-RARE Indigency Clinic
•Active Physiatry Consultant, St. Victoria Hospital, Clinica
Antipolo and Wellness Center,Pasig Doctors Medical Center,
Pasig City Children’s Hospital Child’s Hope
• Member, Philippine Society of Clinical Musculoskeleta
Ultraonology (PSCMU)
• Member, Philippine Society of Ultrasound in Clinical
Medicine, Inc. (PSUCMI)
• Member, Philippine Medical Association-Taytay-Angono-
Cainta Medical Society
• Member, UST Medical Alumni Association
• Member, Association of Thomasian Psychology Alumni
• Member, PARM-RARE Foundation, Inc.
• Medical Consultant, PARM-RARE Indigency Clinic
• Senior Consultant, Veterans Memorial Medical Center
• Diplomate and Fellow, PBRM-PARM
• Project Director, PARM RARE 2017 to present
• Diplomate and Fellow, PBRM-PARM
• Executive Director, PARM 2015-2016
• Present Executive Director, PARM
• President, PARM SONO, ultrasound special interest group
• Head, Ultrasound Unit, POC
• Executive Director, PARM-RARE Foundation, 2016 to
present
• Immediate Past Chief, Rehabilitation Department,
Philippine Orthopedic Center
• Past President, Makati Medical Society
• PARM-RARE President 2016-2018
• PARM President, 2014-2015
• Diplomate and Fellow, PARM
• Chairman, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, World
Citi Medical Center
• Recognition as an Outstanding Thomasian in the field of
Medicine given during “Thomasian Doctors’ Night of
Recognition,” September 28, 2018
• Active Consultant, World Citi Medical Center, Marikina
Valley Medical Center, St. Luke’s Medical Center Global,
Asian Hospital and Medical Center, Diliman Doctors Hospital
• Member, Philippine Medical Association
• Member, Quezon City Medical Society
• Founder and Director, Laoag Rehabilitation Station
• Chair, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mariano Marcos Memorial Hospital, 2016 to present
• President, Ilocos Norte Medical Society 1996-1997
• Governor for Northwestern Luzon Region, Philippine Medical Association 2007-2008
• Most Outstanding Physician of Ilocos Norte, Philippine Medical Association 1997
• Most Outstanding Laoagueño in Medicine, Laoag City Government 2012
• Most Outstanding Physiatrist, Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine 2015
• 24th Dr. Jose Rizal Awardee in Clinical Practice by the Philippine Medical Association, 2015
• THOMAS (Thomasian Outstanding Medical Alumni) Award in Public Health and Health Related Issues, UST Medical Alumni Association 2019
• PARM President 2004-2005
• Dean, College of Rehabilitative Sciences, Cebu Doctors'
University (CDU)
• Chairperson, Center for Physical & Rehabilitation
Medicine, Cebu Doctors' University Hospital (CDUH)
• Congress President, REHAB RHYTHMS 5th AOCPRM 2016
& 26th PARM Annual Convention 2016
• Over-All Chair, PRISM 29th PARM Annual Convention
2019
• Board of Trustee, 2016 to present, PARM-RARE
(Rehabilitation Advocacy, Research & Education)
Foundation, Inc.
• PARM President 2015-2016
• Founder, CEO and President, Philippine Rehabilitation
Institute
• President, Sports Medicine Association of the Philippines
1991-1993
• Active Consultant at Angeles Rehabilitation Center, Prime
Care Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Center, and, Our
Lady of Mt. Carmel Medical Center
• PARM President 1994-1995
• Physiatrist, St. Paul’s Hospital, Iloilo
• Diplomate and Fellow, PBRM-PARM
• Vice President, Iloilo Medical Society, 2010-2011
• PARM President 2010-2011
• Founder of Rehabilitation Medicine Department of Davao
Doctors Hospital , San Pedro Hospital, Southern Philippines
Medical Center, Davao Medical Center
• Pioneer in Davao City Rehabilitation Medicine Services
• Professor, Davao Medical School Foundation
• Adviser, PARM Mindanao Chapter
• Datu Bago Awardee, 2018, as an outstanding Dabawenyo.
• PARM President 1995-1996
• Chair, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine 2007-2014,
UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
• Adviser, PARM SONO, Special interest group in MSK
Ultrasound
• Founding Dean, San Juan de Dios College of Physical
Therapy
• President, Sports Medicine Association of the Philippines
1989-1991
• PARM PRESIDENT 1999-2000
