Dr Maria Melanie Liberty Alcausin | Director, Newborn Screening Reference Center
National Institutes of Health, University Of The Philippines Manila | Philippines

Dr Maria Melanie Liberty Alcausin, Director, Newborn Screening Reference Center, National Institutes of Health, University Of The Philippines Manila

Dr. Maria Melanie Alcausin is the Director of the Newborn Screening Reference Center and a Research Assistant Professor at the National Institutes of Health of the University of the Philippines-Manila.  She is also a Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Pediatrics of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH). She is the program coordinator of the Telegenetics Referral System at the Institute of Human Genetics. She took her medical degree at the University of East-Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center and did her pediatric residency and fellowship on clinical genetics at the UP-PGH.  She went on to have her fellowship on Skeletal Dysplasias and Bone and Mineral Medicine at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Australia. 

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