2024 International Healthcare Professional Excellence Award
Regina Pascua Berba, MD MSc
Dr. Regina P. Berba is an infectious disease specialist, researcher, and professor at the UP College of Medicine, where she graduated in 1987. She pursued her residency in internal medicine from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1994 before coming back to complete a fellowship in Infectious Disease as the Chief Fellow in 1998. She also has a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology from the University of the Philippines Manila, College of Medicine.
Dr Berba is an accomplished figure in the medical field. Her contributions extend beyond her role at the Philippine General Hospital. She has served for over a decade as the head of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) Hospital Infection Control Unit (HICU). During the pandemic, she played a crucial role in transforming UPM-PGH into a COVID-19 referral center, ensuring safety for patients and front liners alike. She also chairs the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee and leads the UP-PRIME TB DOTS and the UP Leptospirosis Taskforce.
She is recognized as one of the Filipino Women’s Network 2022 Most Influential Filipino Women in the World in the Innovators and Thought Leaders Category. People Asia awarded her People of the Year 2022. Dr. Berba is among the six notable individuals awarded The Outstanding Filipino Physicians (TOFP) for 2022 by the JCI Senate Philippines in collaboration with the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) last February 9, 2023, in Quezon City, Philippines.
Dr Berba has demonstrated her excellent leadership in professional societies, both as regent of the Philippine College of Physicians (PCP), an officer of the Philippine Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (PSMID), and a past National Chair of the Philippine Coalition Against Tuberculosis (PhilCAT). She has multiple publications addressing all levels of readers and audiences, from peer-reviewed journals to lay educational pieces.
Dr. Berba has been awarded multiple awards throughout the years, including the UPMAS Most Outstanding in Medical Services Award and UPMAS Most Outstanding Researcher, the Oblation Leadership Award from the PGH, and the UPAA Distinguished Alumni Award in Health Research and Education.