| Rosario Devera-Hipol, M.D. Virginia Beach, Virginia Outstanding Community National Leader and Spearheader of Humanitarian Causes |
Dr. Rosario Devera-Hipol, known to her friends either as “Rose”
or “Charito,” is one of the most visible Filipino achievers, not
only within the vicinity of Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Tidewater
areas, but also all over the United States and Canada where
Filipinos reside. Working closely in harmony with her equally
dynamic husband, Dr. Manny Hipol, a 1993 TOFA , founder and
originator of the highly successful “Miss Philippines America
National Pageant” held annually in Virginia Beach, Rose has
served as Volunteer Pageant Official Physician for 15 years
straight.
As President of the Philippine Medical Association of Southeast
Virginia (PMASEV), she raised funds for $20,000.00 she raised
the most amount of funds than any of the previous twenty-two (
22) PMASEV past presidents. Through Rose’s unassuming
leadership the PMASEV was able to donate $20,000.00, to the
much needed fund of the Philippine American Community’s
Building Fund Program. With Rose’s unassuming land
indefatigable efforts as a leader, the Philippine Medical
Association of Southeast Virginia in addition to the Community
Building Fund Program, PMASEV also was able to donate an
additional $3,000.00 to the Operation Smile project, a
or “Charito,” is one of the most visible Filipino achievers, not
only within the vicinity of Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Tidewater
areas, but also all over the United States and Canada where
Filipinos reside. Working closely in harmony with her equally
dynamic husband, Dr. Manny Hipol, a 1993 TOFA , founder and
originator of the highly successful “Miss Philippines America
National Pageant” held annually in Virginia Beach, Rose has
served as Volunteer Pageant Official Physician for 15 years
straight.
As President of the Philippine Medical Association of Southeast
Virginia (PMASEV), she raised funds for $20,000.00 she raised
the most amount of funds than any of the previous twenty-two (
22) PMASEV past presidents. Through Rose’s unassuming
leadership the PMASEV was able to donate $20,000.00, to the
much needed fund of the Philippine American Community’s
Building Fund Program. With Rose’s unassuming land
indefatigable efforts as a leader, the Philippine Medical
Association of Southeast Virginia in addition to the Community
Building Fund Program, PMASEV also was able to donate an
additional $3,000.00 to the Operation Smile project, a
humanitarian program wherein the area’s Filipino physicians annually sponsor a medial mission to the
remote regions in the Philippines and provide free medical treatments, medical supplies and equipments to
the country’s indigent people.
In addition to the cash donations, Rose, again without too much ado and hoopla, almost single handedly
recruited twenty-eight prominent families to sign as guarantors for $880,000.00 real estate loan for the
construction of the cultural center expected to be inaugurated by spring of 2000 The cultural center is refuted
to be the largest among Filipino-American communities both in the United States and Canada with 14,000
square feet in dimension and an 1,100 seating capacity auditorium or hall.
Just very recently, Rose Devera Hipol was voted as one the 1999 Twenty-Five Most Outstanding President of
the Filipino-American Organization in Hampton Roads Virginia. She is a member of the board of trustees of
the Philippine Cultural Center of Virginia, the biggest in the nation.
Rose’s admirable accomplishments are numerous to enumerate. Her background, however, gives one an
idea, more specially when one starts from her from school’s days when in high school she was active in
extracurricular activities at St. Paul College in Vigan, Ilocos Sur -- Rose’s birthplace and also the birthplace
of Philippines’ illustrious President of the Republic, the late Elpidio Quirino). She was active in the choir
group and dance troupe and had been consistent in the top three of her classes in elementary, high school
and college.
Not only blessed with wisdom and knowledge, Rose was, and still is a beauty. At Manila’s famous Far
Eastern University (FEU), College of Medicine, Rose was “Class Muse” at FEU where she graduated in 1965
with a degree of Doctor of Medicine. From FEU, Rose took up Post Graduate Courses in Internal Medicine at
the University of the Philippines (UP), and came to the United States in August 1968 to pursue medical
training and specialization in Internal Medicine.
Rose has the distinct honor during her residency training in Pathology at the Maimonides Hospital in
Brooklyn, New York. She had the rare opportunity to perform an autopsy of the first and second heart
transplant patients in the United States in 1968-1969. This was during the pioneering days of heart
transplantation. Extensive studies and review of the post mortem findings led to the improvement in the heart
transplant surgical technique, and the success now enjoyed by many heart transplant patients today.
In private practice in General Internal Medicine for 20 years Rose works hand-in-hand with her husband
Dr. Manny A. Hipol, a radiologist. They own and operate the at Hipol Clinic, with a complete radiology
and internal medicines equipments and services at the Hipol Medical Building in Virginia Beach.
Rose is one of the five siblings of Rufino Singson Devera and Flavia Fagela Devera, both of Ilocos Sur. Her
brothers and sisters are Isidro “Manong Sid” Devera, Nicasio Devera, Aeropagita Devera and Eufrosino
Devera. Manny and Rose have two children: Vivian Devera Hipol, 24, a graduate of American University in BS
in International Studies and presently taking International Public Health in Clinical Nursing at John Hopkins
Hospital in Baltimore, MD; and, Charrise Devera Hipol, 21, enrolled at American University and in her junior
year majoring in BS Psychology and Biology.
FIL-AM IMAGE is proud and honored to welcome Rosario “Rose” Devera Hipol to the elite “Circle of Leaders,’
and as one of the 1999-2000 Twenty Outstanding Filipino-Americans in the United States and Canada. (NM)
remote regions in the Philippines and provide free medical treatments, medical supplies and equipments to
the country’s indigent people.
In addition to the cash donations, Rose, again without too much ado and hoopla, almost single handedly
recruited twenty-eight prominent families to sign as guarantors for $880,000.00 real estate loan for the
construction of the cultural center expected to be inaugurated by spring of 2000 The cultural center is refuted
to be the largest among Filipino-American communities both in the United States and Canada with 14,000
square feet in dimension and an 1,100 seating capacity auditorium or hall.
Just very recently, Rose Devera Hipol was voted as one the 1999 Twenty-Five Most Outstanding President of
the Filipino-American Organization in Hampton Roads Virginia. She is a member of the board of trustees of
the Philippine Cultural Center of Virginia, the biggest in the nation.
Rose’s admirable accomplishments are numerous to enumerate. Her background, however, gives one an
idea, more specially when one starts from her from school’s days when in high school she was active in
extracurricular activities at St. Paul College in Vigan, Ilocos Sur -- Rose’s birthplace and also the birthplace
of Philippines’ illustrious President of the Republic, the late Elpidio Quirino). She was active in the choir
group and dance troupe and had been consistent in the top three of her classes in elementary, high school
and college.
Not only blessed with wisdom and knowledge, Rose was, and still is a beauty. At Manila’s famous Far
Eastern University (FEU), College of Medicine, Rose was “Class Muse” at FEU where she graduated in 1965
with a degree of Doctor of Medicine. From FEU, Rose took up Post Graduate Courses in Internal Medicine at
the University of the Philippines (UP), and came to the United States in August 1968 to pursue medical
training and specialization in Internal Medicine.
Rose has the distinct honor during her residency training in Pathology at the Maimonides Hospital in
Brooklyn, New York. She had the rare opportunity to perform an autopsy of the first and second heart
transplant patients in the United States in 1968-1969. This was during the pioneering days of heart
transplantation. Extensive studies and review of the post mortem findings led to the improvement in the heart
transplant surgical technique, and the success now enjoyed by many heart transplant patients today.
In private practice in General Internal Medicine for 20 years Rose works hand-in-hand with her husband
Dr. Manny A. Hipol, a radiologist. They own and operate the at Hipol Clinic, with a complete radiology
and internal medicines equipments and services at the Hipol Medical Building in Virginia Beach.
Rose is one of the five siblings of Rufino Singson Devera and Flavia Fagela Devera, both of Ilocos Sur. Her
brothers and sisters are Isidro “Manong Sid” Devera, Nicasio Devera, Aeropagita Devera and Eufrosino
Devera. Manny and Rose have two children: Vivian Devera Hipol, 24, a graduate of American University in BS
in International Studies and presently taking International Public Health in Clinical Nursing at John Hopkins
Hospital in Baltimore, MD; and, Charrise Devera Hipol, 21, enrolled at American University and in her junior
year majoring in BS Psychology and Biology.
FIL-AM IMAGE is proud and honored to welcome Rosario “Rose” Devera Hipol to the elite “Circle of Leaders,’
and as one of the 1999-2000 Twenty Outstanding Filipino-Americans in the United States and Canada. (NM)
Washington D.C. Since 1987
Washington D.C. Since 1987
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