Medical Feature: Dr. Joy Arabelle Castillo Fontanilla, MD, FACE, FPCP, FPSEDM, FPCDE, CCD
Internal medicine is a large field of medicine. It has multiple sub-branches, each focused on different body systems. One of which is endocrinology, which deals with endocrine glands and hormones.
Meet Dr. Joy Fontanilla, an endocrinologist who has been in practice for more than two decades, in this medical feature:
Dr. Joy Arabelle Castillo Fontanilla, MD, FACE, FPCP, FPSEDM, FPCDE, CCD
Internal Medicine – Endocrinology
Dr. Joy Fontanilla is a veteran Endocrinologist who has been in the field for more than 25 years now. She was under the UP College of Medicine’s seven-year Integrated Arts and Medicine (INTRAMED) Program, which shortened her medical education by two years.
To her, being a doctor is one of the few professions where one has the opportunity to save lives every day. As an endocrinologist, she focuses largely on endocrine glands and hormones, taking on illnesses like goiter, obesity, osteoporosis, and diabetes.
When treating patients, she likes to think of herself as a compassionate detective who does everything she can to figure out what disease her patient is experiencing and help administer a cure.
Dr. Fontanilla currently serves as the Head of Center for Weight Intervention & Nutrition Services (WINS) at St. Luke’s Medical Center-Global City and Chief of Endocrinology at Asian Hospital & Medical Center.
Make an appointment
- Rm. 721 Asian Hospital MOB, 2205 Civic Drive, Filinvest City, Alabang, Muntinlupa City
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Saturdays: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Contact No.: 02-771-9288
- Rm. 721 MAB, St. Luke’s Medical Center Global City, 32nd St., Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Contact No.: 02-789-7700 loc. 7721
This first appeared in Philippine Primer English magazine’s August 2019 issue.
