Council of Young Filipino Americans in Medicine Year in Review

This panel will highlight community issues the past year and share initiatives on building the pipeline for FilAm physicians, while advancing health equity.

 

Watch it on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PAveGw39fs

 

This panel is scheduled for:

Day 2:  Nov. 5,  10:00-11:30 p.m. ET  (Nov. 6,  10:00-11:30 a.m. Philippines)

 

Antonio Moya, M.D., M.P.H. is a neurologist and UCLA National Clinician Scholar. A physician of the Los Angeles Department of Health Services at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, he cares for underserved patients. Through his community partner, the Filipino American Service Group Inc. (FASGI) in LA’s Historic Filipinotown, Antonio leads a community-based participatory research project to promote healthy behaviors through media among Filipino Americans with a focus on emergency stroke care. He also is in collaboration to develop a national network of young Filipino American physicians in the U.S. with an emphasis on educational pipeline programs.
Dr. Moya completed his neurology residency at New York – Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. After receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in neuroscience at UCLA, he traveled to the Philippines on a Fulbright Fellowship with a focus on telemedicine and acute stroke units. He completed his medical school training at UCSF as a PRIME-US Scholar, master’s of public health training from the Harvard School of Public Health, and has pursued his research interests in stroke and public health throughout both residency and fellowship.

Dr. Moya is particularly interested in improving health systems in resource-poor areas of the United States, the Philippines, and other Asian countries. He continues to advocate for improved physical and mental health for Asian and Pacific Islander immigrants and their communities in the U.S. and the Philippines. Antonio is also passionate about music, learning languages, and storytelling as powerful tools for healing.

 

Rommell Victor B. Noche is a second-year medical student at Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine in Connecticut, with a concentration in Health Communications. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry and Master of Science in Chemistry in the Vagelos Scholars Program in the Molecular Life Sciences. Prior to medical school, Rommell worked for two years in clinical research at Yale’s Department of Neurology.
Since 2020, he has served as the Co-Head of the Fundraising Committee in the Council of Young Filipinx Americans in Medicine. In medical school, Rommell is a student representative in curriculum oversight committee and a board member in the student-run clinic. His current interests include vascular disease, precision medicine, and health equity.

 

Carlos Oronce