Your Doctors at ACES

Dr. Reuben Rama Aquino

Dr. Reuben Rama Aquino is the Head of both the ACES  team and the cataract service with exceptional expertise in implanting the latest Multifocal Lens. He is also a well respected expert on phacoemulsification and corneal transplantation. His areas of specialization include anterior segment reconstruction, and refractive surgery. He performed the first LASIK in Cebu and also pioneered the no slice or LASEK technique. He did his pre med in USC and got his medical degree from CIM in 1974. He apprenticed at the Cebu EENT Clinic after which he took the Ophthalmology Basic course in Stanford University. He proceeded to an Ophthalmology Residency in UP-GH finishing in 1982.

Dr. Victorio Naranjo Cajita

Dr. Victorio Naranjo Cajita is the first and currently the most experienced retina specialist in Cebu. He is also a member of the cataract service with particular expertise in complicated cases. A tireless ophthalmology "missionary" he has joined or headed countless medical missions around the Visayas and Mindanao bringing the gift of sight to hundreds of underprivileged. He was a national state scholar in UP Diliman and proceeded to the UP College of Medicine, finishing in 1981. He was chief resident when he completed his ophthalmology residency  at the UP PGH 1985. He completed a three year Retina fellowship at the Schepen's Eye Research Institute of the Harvard Medical School in 1989

Dr. Teodoro Kintanar Gonzales

Dr. Teodoro Kintanar Gonzales, a pioneer graduate of the Cebu City Science High School is the region's first glaucoma specialist and head of the Glaucoma Service.  He is currently the only Philippine Glaucoma Society member in the Visayas and is often called upon to lecture on this topic. Fortunately he enjoys teaching. He finished his pre med cum-laude in UP Diliman and obtained a medical degree from UP in 1982. He did his glaucoma fellowship under Dr. Richard Simmons at the Schepen's Eye Research Institute of the Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Dr. Ronald Rellosa Medalle

Dr. Ronald Anthony Medalle, is an ocuplastic and reconstructive specialist and also a member of the CATARACT service. He is the son of the venerable Dr. Ptolomeo Medalle, who for decades was widely recognized as one of the most successful eye surgeons in Cebu.  The younger Dr. Medalle shares his father's easy going and friendly personality and his love for sports . He got his medical degree from the Cebu Institute of Medicine and was the first graduate of the Residency Program of the Cebu Doctor's Hospital. He took a basic ophthalmology course in Stanford University.  He did a fellowship in oculoplastic surgery at the St. Francis Medical center in Honolulu Hawaii.

Dr. Loren Yap Ong

Dr. Loren Yap Ong is the first pediatric ophthalmology specialist in Cebu. He is also a member of the cataract service concentrating on indigent patients. He got his medical degree from the Cebu Institute of Medicine and finished his residency at the Cebu (Velez) General Hospital. His did his fellowship in Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California before joining ACES.

Dr. Bryan Tan

Dr. Bryan Tan is the refractive ophthalmology specialist of the ACES Eye Referral Clinics performing PRK, Lasik and phacoemulsification. He is also a member of the CATARACT service. A graduate of the Ophthalmology Residency Program of CIM,  he proceeded to a two-year Fellowship in cornea, external disease and refractive surgery at the Shiley Eye Center, University of California in San Diego. While there he performed LASIK, LASEK/PRK, and lamellar/full thickness corneal transplants, as well as the latest procedures like endothelial transplants, and INTACS/Intrastromal Corneal rings.

Dr. Pamela Tarongoy

Dr. Pamela Tarongoy the latest glaucoma specialist of the ACES Eye Referral Clinics. She is also a member of the CATARACT service with particular expertise in patients with both cataract and glaucoma. She hails from Midsayap, Cotabato and is a product of expert tutelage from the senior ACES partners, having been trained in Cebu (Velez) General Hospital’s Ophthalmology Residency Program. She graduated Magna Cum Laude in her BS Medical Technology course and proceeded to the Cebu Institute of Medicine (CIM), finishing in the Top 8 of her class. For 2 years, she become one of 2 Filipino ophthalmologists for ORBIS International, a non-profit Flying Eye Hospital based in New York. She received a Simmons-Belcher International Glaucoma Fellowship after concluding a year-long Glaucoma Training at the Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston in Massachusetts, USA.