Cebu Doctors’ University’s
Administration
Driving the university’s vision through leadership and administration.
Philip Anthony S.D. Larrazabal, MD, MBA
President and Chairman of the Board
Dr. Philip Anthony S.D. Larrazabal is the youngest son of the former president of Cebu Doctors’ University, Dr. Potenciano V. Larrazabal, Jr. with Mrs. Zenaida S.D. Larrazabal. Seeing how his father could be so dedicated in his profession as a doctor and as a teacher, Dr. Philip Anthony envisioned to be a doctor himself.
He earned his pre-medical education of Bachelor of Sciences in Physical Therapy here in Cebu Doctors’ University under the College of Rehabilitative Sciences. He graduated with Latin honors of Cum Laude on 1990. He continued his medical education in the same university and graduated in 1994, still, with Latin honors of Cum Laude.
He proceeded with his post graduate internship at Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital for a year. After his internship, he took the Physicians Licensure Examination on August, 1995 which he successfully passed and ranked 16th of the successful examinees of the country.
Dr. Philip pours out his interest in specializing General Radiology. So after successfully passing and topping the licensure examinations for physicians, he had his residency for the said specialization in Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital in 1996-1998. He later on earned his Board of Certification Specializing Diagnostic Radiology on February 27, 1999.
He continued his journey to becoming a full-fledged doctor as he flew off to the University of Arkansas Medical Science in the United States to have his CT Scan Fellowship Training and continued the same training in Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital in the year 2000.
Dr. Philip believes to better serve his patients, he has to continue to equip himself with better learnings in his specialization, thus earning his certification for his specialty in Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging on February 16, 2002.
Taking notes from other fellow radiologists would add up to his learnings. Thus, later on, he became a member of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry from October 13, 2007 to October 13, 2012. As a member, he is a Certified Clinical Densitometrist. He is also a fellow of the Philippine College of Radiology Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Society of the Philippines and a member of the Philippine Medical Association Cebu Medical Society up to this date.
At present, Dr. Philip Anthony Larrazabal shares his visions for Cebu Doctors’ University and San Lorenzo Ruiz College of Ormoc being the President and Chairman of the Board of Directors for both schools. He is also a member of the Board and the treasurer for the CebuDoc Group of Hospitals which includes the Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital, Mactan Doctors’ Hospital, South General Hospital, North General Hospital, Ormoc Doctors’ Hospital and San Carlos Doctors’ Hospital.
At his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family. He often travels with them to different destinations across the globe.
Enrico B. Gruet, MD
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Jerome L. Coligado, MSPT, PTRP, MA
Vice President for Administration
Bettina Anne Larrazabal-Veloso, MA/IHSM
Vice President for Finance
Dr. Enrico B. Gruet is a Doctor of Medicine whose specialty is Internal Medicine and who subspecializes in Adult Cardiology. Although he obtained his medical education, specialty, and subspecialty training in Manila, he chose to set up his medical practice in Cebu because of his love for teaching. It was Cebu Doctors’ College of Medicine that gave him an opportunity to teach immediately after his fellowship training in 1980. There, he became a faculty member of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and later was appointed Chair of the Department. In 1988, he was appointed Dean of the College of Medicine and in 1989 became the Vice President for Academic Affairs of Cebu Doctors’ College.
Early in his medical practice, he became actively involved in the training of residents in the Department of Internal Medicine of Cebu Doctors’ Hospital, the teaching hospital of Cebu Doctors’ College of Medicine, and in 1985, he was appointed its Director of Medical Education.
In order to grow professionally as a physician, he involved himself actively in the Philippine Heart Association and in the Philippine College of Physicians, becoming the president of the Cebu chapter of these organizations in 1989 and in 1996, respectively.
Through the years, he has continued to influence medical education and its many aspects through his presidency of the Association of Philippine Medical Colleges in 2005, membership in the Governing Council of the Philippine Council on Health Research and Development from 2006 to 2011, chairmanship of the Central Visayas Consortium for Health Research and Development since 2008, chairmanship of the Committee on Faculty Development of the Association of Philippine Medical Colleges since 2014, and chairmanship of the Cebu Doctors University Hospital Research Ethics Committee since 2015.
Jerome L. Coligado, a purebred CDUcian, earned all his academic degrees from CDU—his Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy in 1994, his Master of Arts in Teaching Medical Related Subjects in 2014, and his Master of Science in Physical Therapy in 2019, demonstrating staunch loyalty to the institution.
For almost thirty years of his tenure at CDU, Mr. Coligado has been a member of the faculty and has assumed several significant administrative positions, including Program Chair of the Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy Program, Alumni Relations Officer, Program Director of the Master of Science in Physical Therapy Program, University Registrar, and Head of the Institutional Standards and Quality Assurance Office.
In recent years, Mr. Coligado has played a key role in creating the Quality Assurance structure at CDU, effectively guiding numerous programs to attain and enhance their accreditation status. His leadership and dedication led to the university's first international recognition through the achievement of the Quality Management System Certification, the ISO 9001:2015.
Beyond his contributions to CDU, Mr. Coligado is actively involved in external quality assurance-related endeavors, serving as an accreditor, evaluator, and monitor in government agencies and in an independent accrediting body. His extensive experience and commitment to quality education have made him a respected figure in the academic community.
Mrs. Bettina Anne Larrazabal-Veloso is the 2nd child of the former president of Cebu Doctors’ University, the late Dr. Potenciano V. Larrazabal, Jr. with Mrs. Zenaida Sto. Domingo – Larrazabal.
To equip herself as a helping hand in running their family business, she worked in the Radiology and Accounting Department of the Cebu Doctors’ University – Hospital while taking up her Masters in Management major in Integrated Health Services Management at the University of the Philippines – Cebu.
She earned her degree of Bachelor of Science in Biology here in Cebu Doctors’ University.
Currently, she is the Vice President for Finance of Cebu Doctors’ University and at the same time the Comptroller of Cebu Doctors’ University – Hospital.
Mrs. Veloso is a women’s rights advocate. In fact, she is a dedicated member of the Zonta Club of Cebu II, a leading global organization which envisions every woman to be able to achieve her full potential and to have access in the resources and are represented in the decision making positions on an equal basis with men.