Laboratory Coordination Committee

Laboratory Coordination Committee


About

The University of the Philippines Manila is committed to maintain its research and health services to a quality standard being the country’s center of excellence in the field of health sciences. With this, the Laboratory Coordination Committee (LCC) is mandated to coordinate all laboratories in UP Manila in attaining compliance of applicable regulatory requirements and provide information of the laboratory services to its clients.

LCC Chair

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Mark Angelo C. Ang, MD, MoS, DPSP

Dr. Ang is an anatomic and clinical pathologist with special interests in neuropathology, blood banking, data analytics, quantitative pathology, and digital telepathology.

He is a graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, under the Intarmed program and then trained in combined anatomic and clinical pathology at the Philippine General Hospital. He was the chief resident of the Department of Laboratories in 2012.

He holds a master’s degree in statistics from the University of the Philippines School of Statistics and has completed several online data analysis and research methods short courses from the Johns Hopkins University and Vanderbilt University. He is currently working on a Master of Science degree in biochemistry at the University of the Philippines Manila. Dr. Ang reviews for the Acta Medica Philippina and the Philippine Journal of Pathology.

Dr Ang has worked as junior consultant and technical review consultant for various projects focusing on health quality metrics under the Health Policy Development Program, a USAID sponsored program of the UPEcon Foundation, UP School of Economics in UP Diliman.

He did an observership in research neuropathology and brain banking at the Massachusetts General Hospital Collaborative Center for X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism in 2016. And has been working closely with the Center for XDP and the Movement Disorder Society of the Philippines in establishing a brain bank for XDP.

He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila and a Consultant Pathologist at the Department of Laboratories, Philippine General Hospital.

Contact Us

Laboratory Coordination Committee
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research