| Dr. Lupo T. Carlota Memphis, Tennessee Excellence in Leadership and Service "Serving With Dignity and Compassion" |
When Dr. Lupo T. Carlota, president of the Association of
Philippine Physicians in America (APPA) was asked what his idea
of leadership is, he pondered briefly. Shortly thereafter, his face
lighted up with a soft smile and said: " Leadership to me, is a
means to serve, not to sway. A leader must not only be competent.
He must be humble. He must lead with candor and compassion,
because serving others is a privilege as well as a gift from God."
"The Filipinos in America must assume a leadership role in
building a new and stronger Philippines," says Carlota when
asked what the Filipinos in the U.S. can do for their native country
that is now languishing in poverty and recently victimized by natural
disasters.
The APPA is the most powerful organization of Filipinos in the
United States. It was founded twenty years ago as the national
umbrella structure of the 20,000 Filipino doctors based in America.
It is dedicated to promoting the service of Filipino physicians both
in the U.S. and the Philippines, as well as enhancing the
professional development of its members. APPA conducts
continuing medical education programs, encourages research
and does medical missions for the indigents and the needy in the
Philippine Physicians in America (APPA) was asked what his idea
of leadership is, he pondered briefly. Shortly thereafter, his face
lighted up with a soft smile and said: " Leadership to me, is a
means to serve, not to sway. A leader must not only be competent.
He must be humble. He must lead with candor and compassion,
because serving others is a privilege as well as a gift from God."
"The Filipinos in America must assume a leadership role in
building a new and stronger Philippines," says Carlota when
asked what the Filipinos in the U.S. can do for their native country
that is now languishing in poverty and recently victimized by natural
disasters.
The APPA is the most powerful organization of Filipinos in the
United States. It was founded twenty years ago as the national
umbrella structure of the 20,000 Filipino doctors based in America.
It is dedicated to promoting the service of Filipino physicians both
in the U.S. and the Philippines, as well as enhancing the
professional development of its members. APPA conducts
continuing medical education programs, encourages research
and does medical missions for the indigents and the needy in the
rural areas of the Philippines.
Over the last seven years, Carlota rose from the ranks and has contributed an unexcelled record of service
within the association. In return, he won an overwhelming landslide victory for the presidency last year in
Washington, D.C. That was an unusual accomplishment, given the tight elections the APPA is known to
have. Lupo, as his friends fondly call him, is the only Filipino doctor who has served as member of the APPA
Board of Governors, Speaker of the House of Delegates (two terms,) Editor-in-Chief of the APPA Newsletter
and Chairman of the APPA Constitutional Convention prior to being elected APPA president.
He graduated "Meritissimus" from the University of Santo Tomas, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Manila, in
1960. As a student leader, he founded the Beta Upsilon Sigma, an inter-University Fraternity in the
Philippines. He completed a rotating internship at Marymount Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio in 1965 and a
residency in psychiatry at Warren State Hospital, Warren, Pennsylvania in 1980. Dr. Carlota's medical career
is unique in many ways. Although he is a western-trained physician, he is one of the world's noted authorities
on acupuncture, an ancient Oriental art of healing. His achievements in the field of acupuncture medicine
makes Lupo the epitome of the modern day self-made man. He is the founder and president of the Medical
Acupuncture Research Institute of America (MARIA) and has pioneered in the scientific development of
acupuncture in the United States. He is the developer of MRA (Meridian Regulatory Acupuncture,) a highly
refined, innovative system of therapy which conforms to the standards of modern medicine. As a result of
having studied with Dr. Carlota, hundreds of physicians across the United States and overseas are currently
practicing acupuncture successfully. Among some of his citations, Memphis City Mayor Richard C. Hackett
issued a proclamation dated July 21, 1990, recognizing Dr. Carlota's accomplishments during the MRA World
Congress. Dr. Carlota is distinguished nationally and abroad for simplifying the study of acupuncture by
western-trained doctors to clinical proficiency, in minimum time.
On June 11, 1991, Governor Ned McWherter awarded Dr. Carlota Tennessee's Outstanding Achievement
Award "In recognition of services performed so as to preserve and enhance the tradition of Tennessee
excellence which is the pride of our people." An original thinker, Dr. Carlota postulated the breakthrough
"Quantum Theory of Acupuncture," before the International Acupuncture Society annual convention held in
Taipei, Taiwan in 1976, explaining for the first time how acupuncture works scientifically. In 1983, he became
the first physician from the U.S. invited to conduct a scientific seminar in acupuncture at the medical centers
of Beijing, Nanjing and Shanghai, a historic first for any practitioner of western medicine.
Lupo was born on September 5, 1936 in Gigaquit, Surigao del Norte, Philippines. He is thankful for being
blest in so many ways. Both of his parents are living actively and well in their eighties. His father, Dr. Lupo D.
Carlota, Sr., a native of Surigao del Norte,earned his medical degree in 1932 also from the University of Santo
Tomas, and has served as Director of Health Services of the Department of Health in the Philippines and
Chairman of the Board of Medical Examiners. His mother, Eliza Tanjuakio-Carlota, of Concepcion, Tarlac,
graduated also from UST College of Education in 1932 and later earned her Master of Arts degree. Having
taught most of her life, she was the chairperson of the State Scholarship Council, Department of Education in
the Philippines, prior to her retirement from public service in 1973.
He is married to Lilibeth Dejarme, of Tacloban, Leyte, a Business Management graduate of the University of
the Philippines. She is a former ambassadress of goodwill, having promoted the arts and culture of the
Philippines in her youthful years. Lilibeth was a lead member of the "Kalipayan" a Folkloric Dance Troupe
which performed at the International World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1982, after a successful world
tour performance in the U.S., Mexico, Europe, the Middle East and the Orient. The "Kalipayan" was the only
group of Filipino artists invited to perform at the grand opening of the EPCOT Center in Disney World, Orlando,
Florida, in 1982.
Dr. Carlota has two sons, Moses and Oliver. Moses graduated with honors in Marketing from the Memphis
State University and is preparing for law. He helps in running his Dad's office. Oliver is a third year medical
student at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis. He graduated from Pre-Med, Summa
Cum Laude from the Memphis State University with a 4.0 grade point average and recently topped the Part I of
the National Board Exams capping a 97 percentile of the overall average, with thousands of students taking
the test coming from all colleges of medicine in the United States.
Among his other responsibilities, Dr. Carlota is the president of the American Board of Acupuncture Medicine
and the Philippine Medical Association of Tennessee. He occupies positions of national leadership in
non-medical organizations as well. As a director of the National Filipino-American Council, he participates
actively in the unification and empowerment of Filipinos in the United States. In 1986, he successfully chaired
the First Filipino-American Convention held in Memphis, Tennessee where Ambassador Emmanuel Pelaez
was the keynote speaker. He is a strong proponent of dual citizenship for Filipino-Americans as a motivating
force in building a new and stronger Philippines. In 1973, Governor Brendan Byrne appointed him to the
Medical Examination Advisory Committee for the State of New Jersey, making him the first Filipino to fill that
post. He served as Chief Medical Editor of Merck Sharp & Dohme, International with offices in Rahway, New
Jersey in 1970-'72.
Prior to coming to the U.S., he was elected Speaker of the House of Delegates of the Philippine Medical
Association in Manila in 1968-'69 and President of the Medical Society of Surigao del Norte, his home
province in 1964-'65.
Dr. Carlota currently holds MRA seminars for doctors, something he loves doing over the last eighteen years
and practices acupuncture medicine at his clinic in Memphis, Tennessee. #
Over the last seven years, Carlota rose from the ranks and has contributed an unexcelled record of service
within the association. In return, he won an overwhelming landslide victory for the presidency last year in
Washington, D.C. That was an unusual accomplishment, given the tight elections the APPA is known to
have. Lupo, as his friends fondly call him, is the only Filipino doctor who has served as member of the APPA
Board of Governors, Speaker of the House of Delegates (two terms,) Editor-in-Chief of the APPA Newsletter
and Chairman of the APPA Constitutional Convention prior to being elected APPA president.
He graduated "Meritissimus" from the University of Santo Tomas, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Manila, in
1960. As a student leader, he founded the Beta Upsilon Sigma, an inter-University Fraternity in the
Philippines. He completed a rotating internship at Marymount Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio in 1965 and a
residency in psychiatry at Warren State Hospital, Warren, Pennsylvania in 1980. Dr. Carlota's medical career
is unique in many ways. Although he is a western-trained physician, he is one of the world's noted authorities
on acupuncture, an ancient Oriental art of healing. His achievements in the field of acupuncture medicine
makes Lupo the epitome of the modern day self-made man. He is the founder and president of the Medical
Acupuncture Research Institute of America (MARIA) and has pioneered in the scientific development of
acupuncture in the United States. He is the developer of MRA (Meridian Regulatory Acupuncture,) a highly
refined, innovative system of therapy which conforms to the standards of modern medicine. As a result of
having studied with Dr. Carlota, hundreds of physicians across the United States and overseas are currently
practicing acupuncture successfully. Among some of his citations, Memphis City Mayor Richard C. Hackett
issued a proclamation dated July 21, 1990, recognizing Dr. Carlota's accomplishments during the MRA World
Congress. Dr. Carlota is distinguished nationally and abroad for simplifying the study of acupuncture by
western-trained doctors to clinical proficiency, in minimum time.
On June 11, 1991, Governor Ned McWherter awarded Dr. Carlota Tennessee's Outstanding Achievement
Award "In recognition of services performed so as to preserve and enhance the tradition of Tennessee
excellence which is the pride of our people." An original thinker, Dr. Carlota postulated the breakthrough
"Quantum Theory of Acupuncture," before the International Acupuncture Society annual convention held in
Taipei, Taiwan in 1976, explaining for the first time how acupuncture works scientifically. In 1983, he became
the first physician from the U.S. invited to conduct a scientific seminar in acupuncture at the medical centers
of Beijing, Nanjing and Shanghai, a historic first for any practitioner of western medicine.
Lupo was born on September 5, 1936 in Gigaquit, Surigao del Norte, Philippines. He is thankful for being
blest in so many ways. Both of his parents are living actively and well in their eighties. His father, Dr. Lupo D.
Carlota, Sr., a native of Surigao del Norte,earned his medical degree in 1932 also from the University of Santo
Tomas, and has served as Director of Health Services of the Department of Health in the Philippines and
Chairman of the Board of Medical Examiners. His mother, Eliza Tanjuakio-Carlota, of Concepcion, Tarlac,
graduated also from UST College of Education in 1932 and later earned her Master of Arts degree. Having
taught most of her life, she was the chairperson of the State Scholarship Council, Department of Education in
the Philippines, prior to her retirement from public service in 1973.
He is married to Lilibeth Dejarme, of Tacloban, Leyte, a Business Management graduate of the University of
the Philippines. She is a former ambassadress of goodwill, having promoted the arts and culture of the
Philippines in her youthful years. Lilibeth was a lead member of the "Kalipayan" a Folkloric Dance Troupe
which performed at the International World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1982, after a successful world
tour performance in the U.S., Mexico, Europe, the Middle East and the Orient. The "Kalipayan" was the only
group of Filipino artists invited to perform at the grand opening of the EPCOT Center in Disney World, Orlando,
Florida, in 1982.
Dr. Carlota has two sons, Moses and Oliver. Moses graduated with honors in Marketing from the Memphis
State University and is preparing for law. He helps in running his Dad's office. Oliver is a third year medical
student at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis. He graduated from Pre-Med, Summa
Cum Laude from the Memphis State University with a 4.0 grade point average and recently topped the Part I of
the National Board Exams capping a 97 percentile of the overall average, with thousands of students taking
the test coming from all colleges of medicine in the United States.
Among his other responsibilities, Dr. Carlota is the president of the American Board of Acupuncture Medicine
and the Philippine Medical Association of Tennessee. He occupies positions of national leadership in
non-medical organizations as well. As a director of the National Filipino-American Council, he participates
actively in the unification and empowerment of Filipinos in the United States. In 1986, he successfully chaired
the First Filipino-American Convention held in Memphis, Tennessee where Ambassador Emmanuel Pelaez
was the keynote speaker. He is a strong proponent of dual citizenship for Filipino-Americans as a motivating
force in building a new and stronger Philippines. In 1973, Governor Brendan Byrne appointed him to the
Medical Examination Advisory Committee for the State of New Jersey, making him the first Filipino to fill that
post. He served as Chief Medical Editor of Merck Sharp & Dohme, International with offices in Rahway, New
Jersey in 1970-'72.
Prior to coming to the U.S., he was elected Speaker of the House of Delegates of the Philippine Medical
Association in Manila in 1968-'69 and President of the Medical Society of Surigao del Norte, his home
province in 1964-'65.
Dr. Carlota currently holds MRA seminars for doctors, something he loves doing over the last eighteen years
and practices acupuncture medicine at his clinic in Memphis, Tennessee. #
Washington D.C. Since 1987
Washington D.C. Since 1987
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