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Jovelle B. Laoag-Fernandez
MD, PhD, FPOGS

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Reproductive Endocrinology, Infertility and Oncology

 

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Clinic and Schedule

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Private Clinic
1601 Cityland Pasong Tamo Towers (Infront of Don Bosco Makati)
Makati City
Mobile +63(917) 888-2575

• Mon-Fri 6-8pm

• Sat 10am-2pm

Education and Training

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B.S. Biology (1987)
St. Louis University
Baguio City

Doctor of Medicine (1992)
St. Louis University
Baguio City

Doctor of Philosophy, Major in Surgical Sciences (2003)
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine
Kobe University, Japan

Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology (1994-1998)
St. Louis University Hospital of the Sacred Heart
Baguio City

Subspecialty Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology, Infertility and Oncology (1998-2003)
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine
Kobe University, Japan

Post-doctoral Training in Molecular Endocrinology and Oncology (2003-2005)
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine
Kobe University, Japan

Licensure

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Doctor of Medicine, November 1993

POGS Diplomate Board Examination Part I, July 1997

POGS Diplomate Board Examination Part II, July 2000

Diplomate POGS, November 2000

Fellow, POGS, November 2002

Certificate of Advanced Clinical Training in Reproductive Endocrinology, Infertility and Oncology, 2000 to 2002
issued by the Japan Ministry of Health and Welfare

Certified by the Japan Maternitybics Association (exercise during pregnancy) for exercised before, during, after pregnancy and for babies.

Membership and Affiliations

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Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
UP-Philippine General Hospital

Visiting Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan

Member
International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Member, International Society of Endocrinology

Executive Member
International Maternal and Child Health Care Research Group

Fellow, Philippine Obstetrical and Gynecological Society

Life Member, Philippine Medical Association

Member, Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Member, Japan Society of Endocrinology

Publications

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Bibliography:
List of Publications in International Journals:

Clinical Experience With The Use Of Ambroxol For The Prevention Of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Acta Obst Gynaec Jpn 51(2)S656.Laoag-Fernandez JB (1999)

Regulation Of Granulosa Cell Proliferation And Apoptosis During Follicular Development. Gynecol Endocrinol 13(6):410-9.Maruo T, Laoag-Fernandez JB, Takekida S, Peng X, Deguchi J, Samoto T, Kondo H, Matsuo H. (1999)

Adrenomedullin Expression In The Human Endometrium. Endocrine 12(1):15-9.Laoag-Fernandez JB, Otani T, Maruo T. (2000)

Antenatal Use Of Ambroxol For The Prevention Of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. J Obstet Gynaecol Res 26(4):307-312.Laoag-Fernandez JB, Fernandez AM, Maruo T. (2000)

Effects Of Levonorgestrel-releasing Intrauterine Device (LNg-IUD) On The Endometrium. Acta Obst Gynaec Jpn 52(2)S489.Laoag-Fernandez JB, Samoto T, Murakoshi H, Maruo T. (2000)

Changes In Proliferative Potential, Apoptosis And Bcl-2 Protein Expression In Cytotrophoblasts And Syncyciotrophoblasts In Human Placenta Over The Course Of Pregnancy. Endocr J 47(3):317-327.Ishihara N, Matsuo H, Murakoshi H, Laoag-Fernandez JB, Samoto T, Maruo T (2000)

Levonorgestrel-releasing IUDs In The Long-term Management Of Menorrhagia. J Obstet Gynaecol Res 26(4):75.Maruo T, Samoto T, Kurachi O, Takeuchi S, Laoag-Fernandez JB, Spitz I, Pakarinen P, Johansson E. (2000)

Effects Of L-triiodothyronine (T3) On Cell Survival And Fas/Fas Ligand Expression In Cultured Early Placental Extravillous Trophoblasts (EVT). Acta Obst Gynaec Jpn 53(2)S505.Laoag-Fernandez JB, Matsuo H, Murakoshi H, Hamada A, Maruo T (2001)

Effects Of The Levonorgestrel-releasing Intrauterine System On Proliferation And Apoptosis In The Endometrium. Hum Reprod 16(10):2103-2108.Maruo T, Laoag-Fernandez JB, Pakarinen P, Murakoshi H, Spitz IM, Johansson E. (2001)

Regulation Of Human Trophoblast Proliferation And Apoptosis During Pregnancy. Early Pregnancy 5(1):28-29.Maruo T, Ishihara N, Samoto T, Murakoshi H, Laoag-Fernandez JB, Matsuo H. (2001)

Effects Of Levonorgestrel-releasing Intrauterine System On The Endometrium And The Relevance To The Management Of Menorrhagia Caused By Uterine Myoma And Adenomyosis. In: Maruo T, Barlow D, Mardon H, Kennedy S; Cell and Molecular Biology of the Endometrium in Health and Disease. Soeisha, Osaka:193-207.Maruo T, Laoag-Fernandez JB, Matsuo H, Samoto T, Kurachi O, Takeuchi S, Spitz IM, Pakarinen P, Lahteenmaki P, Johansson E. (2002)

Increased Apoptosis In The Syncytiotrophoblast In Human Term Placentas Complicated By Either Preeclampsia Or Intrauterine Growth Retardation. Am J Obstet Gynecol 186(1):158-166.Ishihara N, Matsuo H, Murakoshi H, Laoag-Fernandez JB, Samoto T, Maruo T. (2002)

Effects Of Levonorgestrel-releasing Intra-uterine System On The Expression Of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor And Adrenomedullin In The Endometrium In Adenomyosis. Hum Reprod 18(4):694-9.Laoag-Fernandez JB, Maruo T, Pakarinen P, Spitz IM, Johansson E. (2003)

Vaginoplasty With Interceed Absorbable Adhesion Barrier For Complete Squamous Epithelialization In Vaginal Agenesis. Am J Obstet Gynecol 188(5):1260-4.Motoyama S, Laoag-Fernandez JB, Mochizuki S, Yamabe S, Maruo T. (2003)

Effects Of Levonorgestrel-releasing Intrauterine System On The Expression Of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor And Adrenomedullin In The Endometrium. Acta Obst Gynaec Jpn 55(2)S33.Laoag-Fernandez JB, Maruo T (2003)

Expression Of Fas/Fas-ligand, Bcl-2 Protein And Apoptosis In Extravillous Trophoblast Along Invasion To The Decidua In Human Term Placenta. Endocr J 50(2):199-207.Murakoshi H, Matsuo H, Laoag-Fernandez JB, Samoto T, Maruo T. (2003)

Gleevec Sensitizes Ovarian Cancer Cells To CDDP. Acta Obst Gynaec Jpn 56(2)S6.Laoag-Fernandez JB, Motoyama S, Hamada A, Hamana S, Tsang BK, Maruo T (2004)

3,5,3’-Triiodothyronine Down-regulates Fas and Fas Ligand Expression And Suppresses Caspase-3 And Poly (Adenosine 5’-Diphosphate-ribose) Polymerase Cleavage And Apoptosis In Early Placental Extravillous Trophoblasts In Vitro. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 89(8):4069-77.Laoag-Fernandez JB, Matsuo H, Murakoshi H, Hamada AL, Tsang BK, Maruo T. (2004)

Neoadjuvant High-dose Intraarterial Infusion Chemotherapy Under Percutaneous Pelvic Perfusion With Extracorporeal Chemofiltration In Patients With Stage IIIa-IVa Cervical Cancer. Gynecol Oncol 95:576-582.Motoyama S, Hamana S, Ku Y, Laoag-Fernandez JB, Deguchi M, Miyahara Y, Tateiwa Y, Yoshida Y, Ohara N and Maruo T. (2004)

Ongoing Researches:

Imatinib Mesylate In Gynecological Malignany

Differentiation Markers In Extravillous Trophoblasts

Books:

Effects Of Levonorgestrel-releasing Intrauterine System On The Endometrium And The Relevance To The Management Of Menorrhagia Caused By Uterine Myoma And Adenomyosis. In: Maruo T, Barlow D, Mardon H, Kennedy S, eds. Cell And Molecular Biology Of Endometrium In Health And Disease. Osaka, Japan: Soeisha, 2000:193-207.Maruo T, Laoag-Fernandez JB, Matsuo H, Samoto T, Kurachi O, Takeuchi S, Spitz IM, Pakarinen P, Lahteenmaki P, Johansson E.

Maternal And Child Health Care Approach To Foreigners In Japan. Kobe, Japan:2002.Matsuo H, Laoag-Fernandez JB.

Lectures:

Presentor, Various Topics Encompassing Reproductive Endocrinology And Oncology, International Session, Japan Obstetrical And Gynecological Society Annual Convention, 1999 to 2004

Presentor, On Effects Of Imatinib Mesylate In Ovarian Cancer And Interceed For Vaginoplasty, Simultaneous Session, POGS Annual Convention, Nov 2004

Presentor, On Small Interfering RNAs, Protein Ubiquitination And Proteosomal Degradation, Journal Club, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 2004

Awards

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First Place, Residents Research Paper Contest, 1997
St. Louis University Hospital

First Place, Research Paper Contest (Poster Session), November 1997, 1999 and 2001 POGS Annual Convention

Research Award, 1997
Philippine Medical Women’s Association

Research Distinction In Biotechnology, 1998
Department of Science and Technology

Grand Prize Winner, International Session (vesting more than 100 presentors worldwide),1999
Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology

First Place, Research Paper Contest (Poster), 2001
POGS Annual Convention

Research Assistant, Kobe University from 2002 to 2003

Presidential Awardee For Outstanding Filipino Individual Overseas - Pamana Ng Pilipino Award For Excellence And Distinction In The Field Of Medicine- awarded by President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo Ceremonial Hall, Malacañan Palace, December 15, 2004

Shan S. Ratnam-Young Gynecologist Awardee, Asia Oceania Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Seoul, Korea, October 1-5, 2005

Extracurricular Activities

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Editor-in-Chief, College Yearbook of both the College of Natural Sciences (1987) and College of Medicine (1992)

Team Captain of Debate Team of both College of Natural Sciences (1987) and College of Medicine (1990)

Participant, Medical Quiz Show, 1990

Associate-Editor, 1997-1998
Baguio Benguet Medical Society Newsletter

Columnist, Kansai Scene, 1999

Representative (among 20 other foreign scholars) To meet with the former Japan Prime Minister Obuchi about Foreign Scholars in Japan, 1999 – Better Policies for Foreign Scholars in Japan

Volunteer Medical Consultant in outreach medical missions sponsored by the Philippine Embassy and Philippine Consulate-General, Japan, 2000 up to the present

Radio Medical Consultancy Services to Filipino Migrants in Japan in Cooperation with FM Cocolo’s Tinig Pinoy, Every Fourth Tuesday of the month, 2000 up to the present

Columnist - Doctor’s Prescription, Jeepney Press, Magazine for Filipino Migrants in Japan, 2002 up to present

Columnist – The Doctor Is In, KMC Magazine, Magazine for Filipino Migrants in Japan, from 2005

Guest, Radio Balintataw DZRH, Hosted by Cecile Guidote-Alvarez and Belinda Olivarez-Cunanan, Dec 19 and Dec 26, 2004

Guest, Pointblank segment of ANC news on Studio 23 hosted by Ces Orena-Drilon, June 27, 2005

 
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