Esther Saguil

Dr. Saguil currently serves as the President of the Philippine Surgical Infection Society and Chair of the Committee on Surgical Infections at the Philippine College of Surgeons. She is also the Chair of the Department of Outpatient Services at the Philippine General Hospital.

She had previously held the role of President of the Philippine Society of Paediatric Surgeons and is currently a board member on the Association of Women Surgeons and Philippine Society for the Surgery of Trauma, among others.

Dr. Saguil frequently speaks at national and hospital-level conferences on matters related to SSIs, most recently participating in discussions that took place at the first-ever Care+ Asia Pacific Masters SSI Prevention Symposium. This event, organised by Ethicon, brought together a consortium of international experts to strategise how Asia-Pacific can advance the adoption and implementation of global guidelines, as well as institute surveillance methods to reduce the risk of SSIs.