Dr. Dennis Serrano

DR. SERRANO is an Associate Professor of Urology and Kidney Transplantation at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. He was the past CHAIR of the DIVISION OF UROLOGY at the DEPARTMENT OF SUR-GERY in the UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES COLLEGE OF MEDICINE- PHILIPPINE GENERAL HOSPITAL. He is currently the CHAIR of the DIVISION OF ORGAN TRANS-PLANTATION in the same institution. He is also the former CHIEF of the INSTITUTE OF UROLOGY, at the ST. LUKE’S MEDI-CAL CENTER GLOBAL CITY, and is now Vice President and Assistant Chief Medi-cal Officer/ Medical Director of the same institution. He is the Past President of the PHILIPPINE SOCIETY OF UROLOGIC ONCOLOGISTS and also the Past President of the PHILIPPINE SOCIETY FOR TRANSPLANT SURGEONS from 2017-2018. He was President of the PHILIPPINE UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION in 2009 and Chair-man of the PHILIPPINE BOARD OF UROLOGY IN 2015. He is a Board Member of the Philippine Board of Transplant Surgeons. He likewise sits on the Board of the ASIAN-PACIFIC PROSTATE SOCIETY and the ASIAN TRANSPLANT SOCIETY. He is an International Member of the AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION as well as the EUROPE-AN ASSOCIATION OF UROLOGY. He was member of the ASIAN CONSENSUS PANEL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER CARE NETWORK, 2015. He is an Intuitive-Certified Robotic Surgeon at the St Luke’s Medical Center Global City where he heads the Section for Robotic Urologic surgery. In 2010, he pioneered the use of Robotics in Radical Prostatectomy for the treatment of Prostate cancer in St. Luke’s Medical Center. In 2018, he launched the robotic urology program at the Philippine General Hospital. He has done hundreds of robotic radial prostatectomies during his career. He graduated from the UP College of Medicine (UPCM) Integrated Arts and Medicine (INTARMED) program and attained his Medical Degree in 1989. He took his residency training in UROLOGY at the PHILIPPINE GENERAL HOSPITAL where he finished in 1994. In 1995-1996, he pursued and completed his subspecialty Fellowship Training in UROLOGY/RENAL TRANSPLANTATION at the CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. In 2005, he attained a MASTERS DEGREE in HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION from the College of Public Health, University of the Philippines, Manila. His research interests and publications include urologic oncology, prostate diseases, and renal transplantation.