Juan Agustin Coruna IVProf

Prof. Juan Agustin Coruña IV is the president of the Philippine Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society. He is known to all colleagues as Chinkin. He graduated medicine from the University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center and completed Orthopaedics and Traumatology at Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH) in the Philippines. Chinkin finished fellowship training with some of the world’s best in foot and ankle surgery: Prof. Hong- Geun Jung at Konkuk University Medical Center in South Korea and Prof. Yasuhito Tanaka at Nara Medical University in Japan. He is directly involved with comprehensive lower extremity management for Western Visayas as Medical Specialist III, Chief of Foot and Ankle Service in CLMMRH. Dr. Coruña also serves as Chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Wound Care at The Doctors’ Hospital in Bacolod City. He teaches research at the University of St. La Salle College of Medicine. Chinkin represents the Philippines consistently as international faculty for foot, ankle, and wound care topics in multiple global events.