Honoria Acosta Sison

Honoria Acosta-Sison

• 1st Filipina physician
• 1st Filipina graduate of an American medical school, Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (1905)
• 1st Filipina surgeon
• 1st Filipina obstetrician
• 1st Filipina to perform a low segment cesarean section
• Mother of Philippine Obstetrics

HUSBAND: Dr. Antonio G. Sison

YEAR OF DEATH
January 19, 1970

USEFUL LINKS

First Filipino Women Physicians
The First Ladies of Philippine Medicine
History of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology