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Dr. Aguilar believe the rational use of internet and digital new media should improve health outcomes and lower healthcare cost. The key he believe, is in an technology empowered participants, all partners towards achieving an improved and affordable healthcare. 

As an early internet and social media adopter, Dr. Aguilar shares his experience and expertise in using internet, networks and digital new media to empower health participants. 

Dr. Aguilar co- founded #HealthXPh, a regular weekly tweet chat that discusses the impact of emerging technology and social media on healthcare. The #HealthxPh chat brings together not only healthcare practitioners and patients from the Philippines but a global community as well. As an advocacy group, #HealthxPh believes in using social media for good particularly in healthcare.

Dr. Aguilar regularly speaks about healthcare social media in local and national forums such as The Philippine Healthcare Social Media Summit, Philippine College of Physicians, Philippine Orthopedic Association, Philippine Nurses Association and the regional PMA chapters.

More About Dr. Remo Aguilar

Dr. Aguilar is currently a trustee of the Philippine Board of Orthopaedics and co chairs its e-logbook and technological pedagogy committees. He is Chief of Clinics at General Santos Medical Center and Medical Specialist III at the Department of Orthopedics, Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao City where he is a member of both the research and academic committees of the department.

Dr. Aguilar earned his medical degree from University of the Philippines College of Medicine and his residency in Orthopedics at the Philippine General Hospital. He is a board certified orthopedic surgeon practicing in South Central Mindanao, Philippines.

Dr. Aguilar is currently a Masters Degree in Distance Education student at the University of the Philippines Open University in Los Banos Laguna.

Outside work and the academe, Dr. Aguilar is a blogger and photographer, loves the outdoors and is active online as a social media enabler. He maintains four sites that caters to each of these niches and regularly speaks at forums on healthcare, social media and photography.

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Since 2006, Dr. Aguilar writes about healthcare in this blog, Cast & Curious, formerly The Orthopedic Logbook (www.remomd.com). This blog was awarded as the Best Business, Finance and Career blog for 2013 by Mindanao Blog Awards. This blog is one of the leading healthcare influencers in the Philippines.

He also writes, edit, design and the administrator of the #HealthxPh site, healthxph.net . He tweets using the handle @bonedoc and co-moderates the weekly #HealthXPh chat. You can follow his public posts on twitter (@bonedoc) and LinkedIn.

About Dr. Aguilar’s blogs

  • I write about medicine and orthopedics in my blog, Cast & CuriousThe Orthopedic Logbook ).
  • As a writer, outdoorsman and amateur photographer, I blog about the outdoors in Hiker’s Itch , while exploring places with my camera, backpack and antihistamines. This blog made it to the Finalist in the Best Travel Blog category of the Mindanao Blog Awards 2013.
  • I’ve been to few places, blended with the locals, heard their stories and photographed some. Some of my photos are on Flickr. One of these photos won First Prize in the recent 2013 Talakudong Festival Igpat san Kamera Photography Contest. Other photos were also featured in some promotional and tourism audio visual presentations.
  • One of my community blog, Tacurong City Online was also recently recognised by the city government of Tacurong, for promoting the city. It was also a Finalist in the Best Gateway and Community Blog category in the 2013 Mindanao Blog Awards.

Collaborate with Dr. Aguilar

Dr. Aguilar is open to collaboration with advocates who share his mission of making quality, affordable healthcare to disadvantage communities.  He is open for speaking and writing engagements as well as group collaborations for special projects on social media, healthcare, education and technologies. If  would like to work with Cast and Curious send him an e-mail at admin (at) remomd (dot) com .

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