| Cristeta Arce-Laurente, M.D. Princeton, New Jersey Fil-Am National Community Leader APPA Continuing Medical Education Specialist |
When it comes to the physician’s mandatory requirements
Continuing Medical Education session, one name stands out as
the person who can arrange in providing high caliber subjects
with renowned specialist as lecturer Dr. Cristeta Arce-Laurente, a
class of ’62 Doctor of Medicine graduate from the University of
Santo Tomas School of Medicine in Manila.
“Dr. Cristeta Laurente is the best CME Director of APPA has ever
had. She is very diligent in choosing informative and valuable
subjects relevant to today’s demand in the medical field,”
explained Dr. Lupo “Sonny” T. Carlota who was the fir APPA
President who “discovered” and appointed Cristeta as APPA CME
Director when he was APPA president in 1992.bb”APPA’s CME
courses were streamlined and more meaningful since Cristeta
took over.”
CME is required by practically all the states in the Union that all
licensed physicians take up 40 hours of approved continuing
medical education (CME) courses before their license are
approved for renewal in the state where they are practicing their
profession. CME courses are offered in medical conventions,
meetings or at schools. Most physicians take advantage of
Continuing Medical Education session, one name stands out as
the person who can arrange in providing high caliber subjects
with renowned specialist as lecturer Dr. Cristeta Arce-Laurente, a
class of ’62 Doctor of Medicine graduate from the University of
Santo Tomas School of Medicine in Manila.
“Dr. Cristeta Laurente is the best CME Director of APPA has ever
had. She is very diligent in choosing informative and valuable
subjects relevant to today’s demand in the medical field,”
explained Dr. Lupo “Sonny” T. Carlota who was the fir APPA
President who “discovered” and appointed Cristeta as APPA CME
Director when he was APPA president in 1992.bb”APPA’s CME
courses were streamlined and more meaningful since Cristeta
took over.”
CME is required by practically all the states in the Union that all
licensed physicians take up 40 hours of approved continuing
medical education (CME) courses before their license are
approved for renewal in the state where they are practicing their
profession. CME courses are offered in medical conventions,
meetings or at schools. Most physicians take advantage of
convention venues in order to socialize and renew acquaintances, and at the same time take the required
CME courses.
Cristeta has an active practice in Internal medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton,
New Jersey, and at St. Francis Medical Center at Trenton, N.J. She was a recipient of the Hamilton Award in
1985, and was President of the Philippine American Medical Society of New Jersey for two years. Superb in
public and press relations, she was PRO (public relations officer) of the University of Santo Tomas Medical
Alumni Association of the Tri-State since 1987 and was elected as a Board Member last year for a 2-year
term. She is CME Director for three major medical organizations: the APPA, the Philippine American Medical
Society of New Jersey, and the UST Medical Alumni Association of the Tri-State.
On a national level, Cristeta is the Secretary of the University of Santo Tomas Medical Alumni Association in
America, the umbrella alumni of UST with chapters across the nation. She has been elected for a 2-year term
as Board Member of the Executive Council of the Association of Philippine Physicians in America. “Cristeta’s
immeasurable contributions as a national leader of the two most influential and largest professional Filipino-
American associations in the United States are in the areas of CME development and her superb relations
with those responsible in underwriting the CMEs. She has legion of friends in the drugs and medical service
companies and they usually assist financially in setting up the CME sessions,” explained one of the Fil-Am
physicians in the CME committee that Cristeta chairs.
During a typical 3 or 4-day convention, Cristeta is usually the first one to arrive in order to arrange the venue for
CMEs, see to it that proper registration forms are utilized, lecturers a lined up and various chores that regular
conventioneers don’t even realize exist. She is all over the place, always busy but always has time to listen to
anyone. After everyone else in the convention has gone home, Cristeta usually stays for another day to wrap
up the CME’s reporting and documentation.
“Accept the challenge so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.” Cristeta’s favorite quotation aptly
describes her. Always adhering to ethical practices and a stickler to well-planned and rightly executed moves,
Cristeta works hard on all her assigned tasks. “Cristeta works like she is being paid handsomely, but the
truth of the matter she does everything for the organizations she is affiliated with on a pro bono basis.
Crested finished her high school and medical degree from the University of Santo Tomas. Born and raised in
Manila, she is one of the ten siblings of Jose Arce of Rosario, La Union, and the former Gloria Aragon of
Legaspi, Albay. She first came to the United States in 1963, a year after graduating from UST, to further her
medical education. She took her internship at St. Barnabas Medical Center and Martland Medical Center in
Newark, New Jersey. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Brooklyn Hospital, and Cumberland
Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Cristeta is married to Dr. Romero Laurent, a doctor of medicine graduate, and also from UST, class ’61, just a
year ahead of her. Dr. Romero Laurent is a physician in general surgery, and heads the Laurent medical
Associates, P.A. in Hamilton, New Jersey. He is from Carmen, Cebu. The Laurentes have four children:
Alan, Romeo Jr., Clarissa and Robert.
Whenever she finds time from her busy and hectic schedules, she plays the piano and just relaxes at home in
Princeton, NJ. #
CME courses.
Cristeta has an active practice in Internal medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton,
New Jersey, and at St. Francis Medical Center at Trenton, N.J. She was a recipient of the Hamilton Award in
1985, and was President of the Philippine American Medical Society of New Jersey for two years. Superb in
public and press relations, she was PRO (public relations officer) of the University of Santo Tomas Medical
Alumni Association of the Tri-State since 1987 and was elected as a Board Member last year for a 2-year
term. She is CME Director for three major medical organizations: the APPA, the Philippine American Medical
Society of New Jersey, and the UST Medical Alumni Association of the Tri-State.
On a national level, Cristeta is the Secretary of the University of Santo Tomas Medical Alumni Association in
America, the umbrella alumni of UST with chapters across the nation. She has been elected for a 2-year term
as Board Member of the Executive Council of the Association of Philippine Physicians in America. “Cristeta’s
immeasurable contributions as a national leader of the two most influential and largest professional Filipino-
American associations in the United States are in the areas of CME development and her superb relations
with those responsible in underwriting the CMEs. She has legion of friends in the drugs and medical service
companies and they usually assist financially in setting up the CME sessions,” explained one of the Fil-Am
physicians in the CME committee that Cristeta chairs.
During a typical 3 or 4-day convention, Cristeta is usually the first one to arrive in order to arrange the venue for
CMEs, see to it that proper registration forms are utilized, lecturers a lined up and various chores that regular
conventioneers don’t even realize exist. She is all over the place, always busy but always has time to listen to
anyone. After everyone else in the convention has gone home, Cristeta usually stays for another day to wrap
up the CME’s reporting and documentation.
“Accept the challenge so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.” Cristeta’s favorite quotation aptly
describes her. Always adhering to ethical practices and a stickler to well-planned and rightly executed moves,
Cristeta works hard on all her assigned tasks. “Cristeta works like she is being paid handsomely, but the
truth of the matter she does everything for the organizations she is affiliated with on a pro bono basis.
Crested finished her high school and medical degree from the University of Santo Tomas. Born and raised in
Manila, she is one of the ten siblings of Jose Arce of Rosario, La Union, and the former Gloria Aragon of
Legaspi, Albay. She first came to the United States in 1963, a year after graduating from UST, to further her
medical education. She took her internship at St. Barnabas Medical Center and Martland Medical Center in
Newark, New Jersey. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Brooklyn Hospital, and Cumberland
Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Cristeta is married to Dr. Romero Laurent, a doctor of medicine graduate, and also from UST, class ’61, just a
year ahead of her. Dr. Romero Laurent is a physician in general surgery, and heads the Laurent medical
Associates, P.A. in Hamilton, New Jersey. He is from Carmen, Cebu. The Laurentes have four children:
Alan, Romeo Jr., Clarissa and Robert.
Whenever she finds time from her busy and hectic schedules, she plays the piano and just relaxes at home in
Princeton, NJ. #
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