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    Paulo C. Campos: (July 7, 1921 - June 2, 2007)

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    Paulo C. Campos was a Filipino physician noted for his promotion of community healthcare and his achievements in nuclear medicine. He established the first nuclear medicine laboratory and radioisotope laboratory in the Philippines. Campos conducted research on goiter and advocated for the treatment of goiter with iodized oil injections. He also established community health programs and served as an educator, founding medical schools and managing the Emilio Aguinaldo College of Medicine.

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    Paulo C. Campos was a Filipino physician noted for his promotion of community healthcare and his achievements in nuclear medicine. He established the first nuclear medicine laboratory and radioisotope laboratory in the Philippines. Campos conducted research on goiter and advocated for the treatment of goiter with iodized oil injections. He also established community health programs and served as an educator, founding medical schools and managing the Emilio Aguinaldo College of Medicine.

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    Paulo C.

    Campos
    (July 7, 1921 – June 2, 2007)

    Was a Filipino physician and educator noted for his promotion


    of wider community health care and his achievements in the
    field of nuclear medicine for which he was dubbed as "The
    Father of Nuclear Medicine in the Philippines". The first
    president of the National Academy of Science and Technology,
    he was conferred the rank and title of National Scientist of the
    Philippines in 1988.

    Contributions to medicine

    Throughout the 1950s, Campos would pursue graduate


    studies in the United States; particularly at the Johns Hopkins
    University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and at
    the Medical Division of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear
    Studies. He developed an interest in nuclear medicine while at
    Johns Hopkins, and completed a training course on the field at
    Oak Ridge.

    As head of the Department of Medicine, Campos established


    the first Medical Research Laboratory in the Philippines at the
    U.P. College of Medicine.
    Nuclear medicine

    Campos initiated the construction of the first


    [radionuclide|radioisotope] laboratory in the Philippines. With
    funding provided by the International Atomic Energy Authority
    and other Philippine institutions, the laboratory was established
    at the Philippine General Hospital. As a result, it was made
    possible for the first time in the country to conduct such
    procedures as the basal metabolism test and radioactive iodine
    therapy At the clinic, and with funding from the IAEA and later,
    the World Health Organization, Campos conducted considerable
    research on goiter, a common medical problem in the
    Philippines. His team first suggested the injection of iodized oil
    (see poppyseed oil) to goiter patients, a treatment later
    advocated by the WHO.

    Community medical outreach

    As chairman of the Department of Medicine, Campos


    began the practice of fielding medical interns for community
    service in Los Baños, Laguna for one month a year. In 1963, the
    program was institutionalized through the organization of the
    Comprehensive Community Health Program (CCHP), pursuant
    to an agreement between the University of the Philippines and
    the Department of Health. The CCHP, which was based in Bay,
    Laguna, served as a community health center that serviced
    several towns in Laguna. Until its closure in 1989, it became the
    community laboratory of the UP College of Medicine, and it was
    there that Campos conducted testing on the use of iodized oil
    for the treatment of goiter.
    Educator

    In addition to his service at the University of the


    Philippines, Campos was also affiliated with the Emilio
    Aguinaldo College of Medicine, which he and his family also
    managed. Appointed as the president of the college in 1973, he
    oversaw the establishment in 1977 of a second campus in
    Dasmariñas, Cavite. The ownership and management of the
    Dasmariñas campus was sold by the Campos family in 1987 to
    the De La Salle University, which integrated it into the La Salle
    system as what is now known as the De La Salle University-
    Dasmariñas. The Campos family retained control over the
    Manila campus of what is now the Emilio Aguinaldo College, a
    partner-institution of the Medical Center Manila.

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