{"id":21708,"date":"2017-10-09T08:04:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T00:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=21708"},"modified":"2017-10-09T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T08:11:07","slug":"medical-professionals-in-manila-dr-gia-b-sison-occupational-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/10\/09\/medical-professionals-in-manila-dr-gia-b-sison-occupational-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Professionals in Manila: Dr. Gia B. Sison, Occupational Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As an expat, there are basic necessities that you need to know to have a comfortable stay in the Philippines. Apart from food, transportation means, and emergency hotlines, it is important to be aware of health services around the metro. This includes finding a physician who can help you about your health conditions as you live in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Get to know Dr. Gia Sison in this medical feature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Gia B. Sison, MD<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Occupational Medicine<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21709\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/10\/giasison1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Dr. Gia Sison is not just your ordinary doctor&#8211; aside from being a healthcare provider, she is also a mother, breast cancer survivor, cancer and mental health advocate, and the Chief Medical Officer at Global TeleHealth Incorporated, which runs the KonsultaMD: a 24\/7 health hotline service. In this field, Dr. Sison works in the digital health sphere that provides accessible and affordable health service through technology. She manages a pool of licensed Filipino doctors providing medical assistance such as primary healthcare over the phone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/2017\/09\/22\/konsultamd-your-247-health-hotline-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">KonsultaMD: Your 24\/7 Health Hotline Service<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Prior to her work in the digital health field, Dr. Sison is an occupational physician that deals with workplace-related health issues. She handles health programs, formulates safety guidelines, and ergonomics in the corporate sector. Dr. Gia Sison is also a part of HealthXPh, a collaboration among healthcare professionals pushing for healthcare improvement and participatory medicine in the Philippines by utilizing social media and emerging technologies.\u00a0 Follow her on Twitter @giasison and read her blog at giasison.com.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Make an appointment:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>HealthFirst Clinic <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Greenfield District, Mandaluyong<br \/>\nSaturday (by appointment)<br \/>\nContact: 02-657-2202<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get to know Dr. Gia Sison in this medical feature.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3683],"tags":[4115,4116,4117],"class_list":["post-21708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medical-feature","tag-gia-sison","tag-healthxph","tag-konsultamd"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/10\/giasison1-e1507536606195.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21711,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21708\/revisions\/21711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}