Professor Zorayda Leopando

Professor Zorayda “Dada” Leopando is Vice Chancellor for Planning and Development of the University of the Philippines Manila and Professor of Family and Community Medicine, editor of Asia Pacific Family Medicine and active member of the Wonca Working Party for Women.

Dada has devoted 25 years in the promotion of high standard of family medicine education, research and practice.

As Wonca Asia Pacific Regional President, she brought WONCA closer to the member organizations through 3 Regional Conferences, 5 Family Medicine Education Workshops, a blue print for an Asia Pacific Family Medicine Journal and a Regional By-Laws and structure. Dada contributed in the development of Family Medicine in Vietnam, Indonesia and Mongolila.

As President of the Philippine Academy of Family Physicians and Founding President of the Philippine Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, she initiated and helped sustain the Strategic Action Planning Workshop and Faculty development. She is one of the primemovers in competencies, standards, undergraduate education, quality improvement and the academic link with the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Her most significant contributions as Chairperson of her Department, are the introduction of a Master of Science in Clinical Medicine - Family Medicine and the link program with the Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences of the University College London.

Dada’s research interests cover medical education, health human resource, women issues and health care delivery system.

Her accomplishments were recognized as she was awarded honorary fellowship by the Royal College of General Practitioners, Fellow of Wonca and UP Medical Alumni Society Educator of the Year.