The Guinayangan Republic

Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Born in Guinayangan, Quezon in 1922, to Dr. Benjamin S. Enverga and Ana Lagdameo. She is a talented grand daughter of Sr. Victoriano Lagdameo, the first Presidente Municipal of Guinayangan. She completed her elementary studies within three and a half years only instead of six years. She graduated as valedictorian in high school at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in 1939 and Preparatory Medicine in 1940. In 1938-1940, she studied for her Associate in Arts and Doctor of Medicine from 1940 to 1945 as a full academic scholar and graduated magna cum laude in 1945. She placed second in the examinations administered by the Philippine Board of Medical Examiners in 1946.

She took a post-graduate study in Gynecology at the Brookline Free Hospital for Women in Brooklilne, Massachusetts after she completed her residency at the Ob-Gyn Department of the UST Hospital. She completed her residency in Obstetrics at St. Anne Hospital in Chicago, under the Loyola Medical School in 1950-1951.

Carmen Enverga Santos is an instructor and professor in medicine and surgery who has history of excellent academic life.

Santos held significant positions in UST- assistant instructor and instructor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology; instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, then full professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 1973, she was became the chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the first woman to occupy this post after more than one century of its existence.

She is a member of the Philippine Infertility and Sterility Society , and a fellow of the Philippine Obstetrical and Gynecological Society and the Philippine College of Surgeons. She is a member of both Asian and International Federation of Obstettrics and Gynecology, and a life member of the Philippine Medical Women's Association. She has published many scientific papers on her research interests, namely, ovarian malignancies, vulvo-vaginitis among Filipino women, and hydatidiform mole and prophylactic methotroxate.


For her numerous achievments she won distinctions, honors and awards such as:

• Most Outstanding Alumna in the Field of Medecine (UST High School)
• “Karangalan Award” of Quezon Province in the Field of Medicine and Human Endeavour
• Golden Achievement Award 1981, UST Alumni Association
• UST Medical Alumni Association, Conrado Bauzon Award for Leadership (1980)
• Ramon Lopez Memorial Award, 1982, by the Philippine Obstetrical and Gynecological Society
• Congress Executive of the Year for the Philippines, 1982 (for the successful 18th MWIA Congress)


ref. Wikipilipinas
ref. "Guinayangan Noon at Ngayon" by Mrs. Alodia F. Molines