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This lady impressed the nuns, teachers and classmates alike by garnering so much merit in High School.
She received a standing ovation and repeated applause on graduation day for her outstanding academic performance.
This was acknowledged by the fact that she appeared on stage to receive numerous awards,
should one have to count, it would be estimated at nothing less than five times during the entire commencement exercise.
Everyone will certainly remember Michelle for the "Valedictory Address" she rendered.
She was the recipient of the Insular Life Gold Eagle Award and Gold Medal for Campus Journalism.
Her name glitters with gold and nothing less.

Predictably, after high school she studied even more.
She took her pre-med and medical studies at the University of Santo Tomas.
"I decided to specialize in one of the "nerdier" areas of medicine,
as this has hardly any patient contact and involves mostly microscopic work", she says.
Her residency training was at the University of the Philippines - Philippine General Hospital.
Never quitting on studies, she continued with several fellowship stints and was sent by Saint Luke's Medical Center
to study electron microscopy at the Latter Day Saints Hospital affiliated with the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1995.
Subsequently, she had a two-month visiting fellowship at the Department of Neuropathology of McGill University
in Montreal, Canada in 1996, another two months at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York in 1997,
and another two months at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor in 1998.
At present, Michelle is a Consultant Pathologist at UST, UP-PGH and St. Luke's Medical Center.
She is the section chief of the Out Patient Department Laboratories at PGH
and heads the Clinical Electron Microscopy Unit at St. Luke's.
More to this, ..... as academics is her shadow....
Michelle is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pathology of UST and St. Luke's College of Medicine,
and Clinical Assistant Professor at the UP College of Medicine.

Michelle says:
"The pathologist's job is to diagnose tumors, whether benign or malignant,
we also do private autopsies which is a minor part of the job already.
The good thing about this part of the job is that the patients do not complain!"
So, to our dear Michelle, WE PROMISE NEVER TO COMPLAIN, do we need appointments yet?