LASERNA ASSUMES SPSA PRESIDENCY

TO BE INSTALLED AS SPSA’S 39TH PRESIDENT

Sarie Laserna, MD, FACOG was recently elected as the in-coming President of the Society of Philippine Surgeons in America, Inc during the last Annual 39th CME Seminar aboard the luxury ship Regatta, August of this year. Dr. Laserna, an Obstetrician-Gynecologist from Fredericksburg, Virginia, will be the second female president since the Society was founded in 1972. Dr. Francisca Velchek was the first female president elected in 1993.

Dr. Laserna has been on the Board of Governors of the Society since 2009 and was at one time the Chairperson of the Membership Committee. She has been very active at several medical societies in Virginia. She was a founding president of an organization that helps and supports women,on health issues particularly affecting younger women. She is presently involved with a number of “nation building” organizations , among them the Gawad Kalinga movement in the Philippines. She is an indomitable fund-raiser for all the organizations she is involved in.

Dr. Laserna is married to Oscar Laserna, MD FACOG, FACS, also an obstetrician-gynecologist and 2006 President of SPSA. They have three children and four grandchildren.