| Romulo Flores Baltazar, M.D. Timonium , Maryland Outstanding Educator, Scholar and Achiever |
“Romy is not only an outstanding physician we Filipinos and
Filipino-Americans can be proud of, but also a leader among the
best. He is a renowned cardiologist who heads one section,
the cath lab, of Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. He has been
honored as an outstanding UPMASAn (University of the
Philippines Medical Alumni Society of America) educator.
A dedicated and high achiever leader, he was one of the finest
past presidents of the Association of Philippine Physicians of
Maryland (APPM), leading the APPM to two years of financial and
fiscal stability as well as medical educational advancement for
the members through informative and interesting CME
(Continuing Medical Education) which the members also enjoyed
socially. Dr. Ben Oteyza of Bel Air, Maryland , a 1993 TOFA
awardee who nominated and lobbied for Dr. Baltazar’s
acceptance as one the awardees of the 1999-2000 Twenty
Outstanding Filipino-Americans in the United States and
Canada, and an automatic membership to the elite “Circle of
Leaders,” wrote: “Romy Baltazar is an asset to the Maryland
community, and very much worthy to join the TOFA group.”
Consistently one of the top honor students of his class, as
Filipino-Americans can be proud of, but also a leader among the
best. He is a renowned cardiologist who heads one section,
the cath lab, of Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. He has been
honored as an outstanding UPMASAn (University of the
Philippines Medical Alumni Society of America) educator.
A dedicated and high achiever leader, he was one of the finest
past presidents of the Association of Philippine Physicians of
Maryland (APPM), leading the APPM to two years of financial and
fiscal stability as well as medical educational advancement for
the members through informative and interesting CME
(Continuing Medical Education) which the members also enjoyed
socially. Dr. Ben Oteyza of Bel Air, Maryland , a 1993 TOFA
awardee who nominated and lobbied for Dr. Baltazar’s
acceptance as one the awardees of the 1999-2000 Twenty
Outstanding Filipino-Americans in the United States and
Canada, and an automatic membership to the elite “Circle of
Leaders,” wrote: “Romy Baltazar is an asset to the Maryland
community, and very much worthy to join the TOFA group.”
Consistently one of the top honor students of his class, as
valedictorian in 1958 from La Union High School in San Fernando, La Union. Dr. Romulo “Romy” Flores
Baltazar, has been a natural born leader and spearheader of worthy projects and causes. Exempted from
taking the well-known and so much dreaded freshman’s entrance examinations of the University of the
Philippines , for college admission, Romy with ease and without difficulty completed the required two-years
Pre Med at U.P.’s College of Arts and Sciences in 1961. Four years later in 1965, he received his diploma
from the Medical School of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine as a physician. His
overwhelming obsession to serve the unfortunate people in the remote and distress regions of the
Philippines was was fulfilled when he opted to continue to practice locally to provide medical attention
and treatments to the Filipino people by postponing his trip abroad after graduation. Completing his
residency at U.P.’s Philippine General Hospital Medical Center, a public hospital where most, if not all,
patients are treated free of charge. Between 1969 and 1970, he was chief resident at PGH and was an
instructor in medicine at U.P. College of Medicine. In June 1970, Romy decided to migrate to the
United States for further medical training as well as learning the advanced medical techniques and trends.
First, he joined the famous Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Maryland, for a year as Resident (PGY III), then for two
years he took up Residency in Cardiology at Sinai Hospital and in Pediatric Cardiology at the equally
renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland. From 1973 until ‘75, Romy acquired the much coveted Fellow
in Cardiology at Maimonides Medical Center in New York. From 1975 to the present time, Romy remained in
the Baltimore area where for ten years, from 1977 to 1987, he was instructor in medicine. He was
promoted as an assistant professor of medicine in 1987 at the world renowned Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine.
“Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not to be waited for, it is a thing to be
achieved,” a favorite motto of Dr. Romulo “Romy” Flores Baltazar. Born in Naga, Camarines Sur, one of the
four children of Melecio Baltazar and Socorro Flores, both of San Fernando, La Union. Romy is married to
the former Ophelia Zarzuela of Manila, also a medical doctor . They have two children: Romulo, Jr., 24, in
medical school at Mount Sinai University School of Medicine in New York; and Cristina, 28, a graduate from
Johns Hopkins University , Whiting School of Engineering. (NM)
Baltazar, has been a natural born leader and spearheader of worthy projects and causes. Exempted from
taking the well-known and so much dreaded freshman’s entrance examinations of the University of the
Philippines , for college admission, Romy with ease and without difficulty completed the required two-years
Pre Med at U.P.’s College of Arts and Sciences in 1961. Four years later in 1965, he received his diploma
from the Medical School of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine as a physician. His
overwhelming obsession to serve the unfortunate people in the remote and distress regions of the
Philippines was was fulfilled when he opted to continue to practice locally to provide medical attention
and treatments to the Filipino people by postponing his trip abroad after graduation. Completing his
residency at U.P.’s Philippine General Hospital Medical Center, a public hospital where most, if not all,
patients are treated free of charge. Between 1969 and 1970, he was chief resident at PGH and was an
instructor in medicine at U.P. College of Medicine. In June 1970, Romy decided to migrate to the
United States for further medical training as well as learning the advanced medical techniques and trends.
First, he joined the famous Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Maryland, for a year as Resident (PGY III), then for two
years he took up Residency in Cardiology at Sinai Hospital and in Pediatric Cardiology at the equally
renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland. From 1973 until ‘75, Romy acquired the much coveted Fellow
in Cardiology at Maimonides Medical Center in New York. From 1975 to the present time, Romy remained in
the Baltimore area where for ten years, from 1977 to 1987, he was instructor in medicine. He was
promoted as an assistant professor of medicine in 1987 at the world renowned Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine.
“Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not to be waited for, it is a thing to be
achieved,” a favorite motto of Dr. Romulo “Romy” Flores Baltazar. Born in Naga, Camarines Sur, one of the
four children of Melecio Baltazar and Socorro Flores, both of San Fernando, La Union. Romy is married to
the former Ophelia Zarzuela of Manila, also a medical doctor . They have two children: Romulo, Jr., 24, in
medical school at Mount Sinai University School of Medicine in New York; and Cristina, 28, a graduate from
Johns Hopkins University , Whiting School of Engineering. (NM)
Washington D.C. Since 1987
Washington D.C. Since 1987
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