Alfredo C. Balderrama, M.D. ✝

1965: EXPANDING REGIONAL REACH UNDER DR. ALFREDO C. BALDERRAMA

The mid-1960s brought a strong realization that advanced chest surgery was dangerously isolated within the capital city.

• The Sixth Presidency of PATS: Alfredo C. Balderrama assumed leadership.
• The Provincial Surgical Missions: Balderrama initiated the earliest recorded provincial surgical caravans, where Manila-based PATS fellows traveled to regional public hospitals to perform complex thoracic triage and educate rural general surgeons on managing basic chest trauma.