Pauline Convocar

Dr. Pauline Convocar is currently the President of the Asian Society of Emergency Medicine; and President-Elect and Chair of the Specialty Implementation Committee of International Federation of Emergency Medicine. As the Past President of the Philippine College of Emergency Medicine (PCEM), she is instrumental to the organization of PCEM’s Section on Gender Equity and Empowerment to ensure inclusivity and diversity in the field of emergency medicine. She still leads PCEM’s Section on Advocacy in addressing national and global emergency care disparity issues and developing inclusive health systems for the disadvantaged. As a diplomate of the Philippines College of Occupational Medicine, her other advocacies include promotion of occupational safety and health among emergency healthcare workers. She had once been a doctor-volunteer in a geographically-disadvantaged island in the Philippines and has since developed a strong interest in community health care administration and management, health promotion and education and inter-facility critical care transport. As a lifelong learner, she finished her post-graduate studies on Magistratum Sanitatis Communitatis Administrationis (Masters in Community Healthcare Management) with honor distinction and proceeded to finish her training in emergency medicine specialty from the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital. She is currently pursuing her doctorate degree in Public Heath – Health Promotion and Education from the University of the Philippines – Manila. Her affiliations include being the Vice-Chair and Training Program Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine of Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Medical Hospital (CLMMRH) in Bacolod City and Vice-Chair for Research of the Department of Emergency Medicine of Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) in Davao City. She is an active clinician and Chair for Emergency Department Sevices of the Department of Emergency Medicine in Manila Doctors Hospital where she is Head of the Resuscitation Section of its Occupational Safety and Health Committee.