Dr. Romina A. Danguilan is the Deputy Executive Director for Medical Services at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute – the largest tertiary referral center for kidney, allied, and urologic diseases and transplantation in the Philippines. She served as President of the Asian Society of Transplantation from 2017 to 2019. Currently, she is the Vice President of the Transplantation Society of the Philippines and an active member of the AST Council. Dr. Danguilan received her medical degree from the University of the Philippines, Manila in 1985. After her medical internship and residency in internal medicine at the Philippine General Hospital in Manila, Philippines, she completed her fellowship training in nephrology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, United Kingdom. She received a diploma for Public Management Development Program-Senior Executive Class (PMDP-SEC) from the Development Academy of the Philippines in 2014, finishing as class valedictorian among scholars from various government agencies. Dr. Danguilan’s research interests include immunosuppression in transplantation, organ donation, resource utilization of dialysis therapies, the economic and psychosocial impact of dialysis on the Filipino family, leptospirosis, and extracorporeal therapies. Her work has been published in scientific journals such as Kidney International Supplements, the American Journal of Transplantation, Peritoneal Dialysis International, and Transplantation Proceedings.