Dr. Angel Dy is a primary care physician and Assistant Professor at Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health.  She specializes in treating patients with neurodevelopmental disorders and promoting infant and toddler mental health. She works with an interdisciplinary team of medical doctors, psychologists, allied health professionals (speech, occupational, and physical therapists), and special education teachers. In addition, she has experience in healthcare administration and management.

Dy Dy, currently serves as the co-project leader of the Ateneo Autism Study Group.This project was the result of her training from the International Training Program for Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. Her work has enabled training for over 40 clinicians from different regions in the Philippines for standardized testing and certification training in the Early Start Denver Model for children with autism. Angel also served as Project leader on multiple capacity-building projects under the World Health Organization Philippines. This work involved collaborations with the Department of Health, where the team developed the virtual and onsite implementation of the mental health gap action program (mhGAP), which establishes a cascade type of training from master trainers, trained trainers and training for non-specialist primary health care providers to meet the gap in resources available to address the burden of mental, neurological and substance use disorders globally. This targets the service delivery network related to mental health services across the 16 different regions.

“Leading the patient and family engagement pillar of iACT gives me an exciting opportunity to leverage my research and clinical background working with children and their families”, says Angel. She is optimistic that her experiences working with an interdisciplinary team to coordinate patient-centered care will drive innovative solutions  to improve patient and family engagement in healthcare and will lead to better patient experience of care for the Filipinos.