Atty. Ana Liza Hombrado Duran, M.D. is the Assistant Director of RITM. She is also currently the primary focal person of the Institute for the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) national activities.
She is a doctor-lawyer with a Masteral course in Management Major in Hospital Administration. She was a full university scholar during her undergraduate years in the University of Santo Tomas, where she graduated cum laude and a Gilberto Gamez Medical Scholarship in Medicine recipient.
She pursued law studies at Arellano Law School after her pediatric residency at East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC)-DOH Retained Hospital. She later took her Masteral Course at the Philippine Christian University.
Rising from the ranks as a Medical Specialist, she then chaired the EAMC Department of Pediatrics, and EAMC and National Children’s Hospital Institutional Ethics Review Board among other institutional responsibilities.
Exploring her interest on pediatric tuberculosis (TB), she served as the National TB Program Coordinator in Pediatrics at the EAMC TB facility from the time of its establishment in 2008 until her transfer to the Institute in July 2021. She is a current member of the Philippine Pediatric Society (PPS) TB Committee and has contributed to the fourth edition of PPS Handbook of TB in Children.
Current role