Honoria Acosta-Sison (30 December 1888–19 January 1970) was the first Filipino woman to become a medical doctor.

Biography

She was born in Calasiao, Pangasinan in the Philippines and graduated from the

Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardl ...

in 1909. In 1910 she married the director of the Philippine General Hospital of Manila, where she first worked as assistant in

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. She later was first assistant in obstetrics in St. Paul's Hospital in Manila, and in 1914 she became a faculty member at the University of the Philippines. By 1940 she was professor of obstetrics and gynecology and head of the department of obstetrics there. She was known internationally for her research on trophoblastic diseases and

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in pregnancy.

Awards and honours

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* Presidential Medal in 1955 * Gold Medal from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1959 * Most Outstanding Woman Physician from the Philippine Women's Medical Association in 1959. * In 1978, the Philippines issued a commemorative stamp with her name and likeness.

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