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.

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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.

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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.

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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.