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''''Lillian Gonzalez-Pardo''' (February 5, 1939 {{En dash}} ) is a [[Filipino Americans|Filipino American]] physician. She is the first [[Asian Americans|Asian American]] to serve as president of the [[American Medical Women's Association]]. == Early life and education == Gonzalez-Pardo was born in [[Manila]] on February 5, 1939. She graduated from the [[University of the Philippines]] with a medical degree in 1962. She did an internship at the [[Philippine General Hospital|Philippines General Hospital]]. She was a [[neurology]] resident at the [[University of Kansas Medical Center]] from 1963 to 1967. She later switched her focus to [[Child and adolescent psychiatry|child psychiatry]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Zia|first=Helen|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33319459|title=Asian American biography|date=1995|publisher=UXL|others=Susan B. Gall|isbn=0-8103-9687-4|location=New York|oclc=33319459}}</ref> In 1967 Gonzalez-Pardo became a fellow at the [[Children's Mercy Hospital]]. While living in Kansas she met and married Manuel Pardo, another physician.<ref name=":0" /> == Career == In 1969 Gonzalez-Pardo returned to the Philippines to teach medicine. However, she returned to the University of Kansas Medical Center in 1972 and served as a fellow in developmental pediatrics and then in 1974 became a resident in pediatrics. She became an assistant professor at the university in 1975. She became a full professor in 1992.<ref name=":0" /> In 1992 Gonzalez-Pardo became the president of the American Medical Women's Association. She was the first Asian American to hold that position and was the immediate successor of [[Roselyn P. Epps|Roselyn Payne Epps]], the first African American to hold that position.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Lillian Gonzalez Pardo, MD, MHSA|url=https://www.amwa-doc.org/faces/lillian-gonzalez-pardo-m-d-mhsa/|access-date=2022-02-16|website=American Medical Women's Association|language=en-US}}</ref> During her tenure as president Gonzalez-Pardo pushed the organization to be more politically active both domestically and internationally. Gonzalez-Pardo retired in 2006. Since her retirement she has conducted medical missions in the Philippines and done other volunteer and community work.<ref name=":1" /> In 2016 she published her autobiography entitled '''Beyond the Shores''' In 2017, she and her husband Manuel Pardo endowed an annual lecture on pediatric neurology by a visiting professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center, which has been named in her honor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filipino-association.org/tambuli/showarticle.asp?_id=97|access-date=2024-06-16|date=March 2017|title= Pediatric Neurology Lectureship to Add to Educational Experience at KU Med|publisher=Filipino Association of Greater Kansas City|first=Ping|last=Biyani}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2024-06-16|date=2019-04-17|url=https://www.kumc.edu/school-of-medicine/academics/departments/neurology/about/news-and-events/spotlighting-pediatric-neurology.html|title=Spotlighting pediatric neurlogy during annual Pardo lecture|publisher=KU Medical Center Department of Neurology}}</ref> ==Personal Life== She and her husband have three grown children: Manuel Carlos, a physician, Lillian Elizabeth, a teacher, and Patrick, a writer, and five grandchildren.<ref name="bio">{{cite book|last=Gonzalez-Pardo|first=Lillian|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/980170181|title=Beyond the shores|date=2016|publisher=LULU COM|isbn=978-1-329-92728-5|location=[Place of publication not identified]|oclc=980170181}}</ref> == Further reading == * {{Cite book|last=Gonzalez-Pardo|first=Lillian|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/980170181|title=Beyond the shores|date=2016|publisher=LULU COM|isbn=978-1-329-92728-5|location=[Place of publication not identified]|oclc=980170181}} == References == {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Medical doctors from Manila]] [[Category:Filipino neurologists]] [[Category:Filipino pediatricians]] [[Category:University of the Philippines alumni]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Gonzalez-Pardo, Lillian}} [[Category:University of Kansas faculty]]'