ShareThisDr. Cesar D. Candari of class ‘61 was chosen Most Outstanding Alumnus of the Year at the 32nd Annual Reunion and Scientific Convention of the Far Eastern University DNRS Medical Alumni Foundation (USA) in America during his class’s Golden Jubilee Reunion, celebrated at the Monte Carlo Hotel Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on June-15-18, 2011.
Dr. Candari
Dr. Candari’s many achievements and altruistic deeds which benefited his communities in the Philippines and United States are hard to match. He says his greatest accomplishment, besides his wife and family, was co-founding Operation Samahan Community Health Clinic in San Diego County where he volunteered his services mostly as chairman of the board for seventeen years.
Dr. Candari, who graduated valedictorian in high school, is a well-recognized orator. He moved to the United States after graduation from the Far Eastern University Institute of Medicine, Manila Philippines in 1961. In January 1962 his postgraduate training started as an intern at Elyria Memorial hospital in Elyria, Ohio. He took his residency in Pathology at Edgewater Hospital, transferred to Illinois Masonic Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. In 1969, he relocated to San Diego, California and joined the San Diego Pathologist Medical Group Inc. In his thirty years as partner he served as Secretary and later as vice President of the corporation.
He is Board certified and Diplomate in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology in 1970, became Fellow of the College of American Pathologists and the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. He is now Fellow Emeritus. In 1973, he became the first Filipino American Certified Specialist in Immunohematology and Blood Banking.
He was re-certified as Diplomate of the American Board of Pathology in 1999
After his retirement in1998 from SCRIPPS MERCY HOSPITAL, he accepted the position as Director of Pathology Department of El Centro Regional Medical Center in El Centro, California.
His life as a pioneering Filipino American doctor in America breaking barriers, gaining respect and achieving acceptance from mainstream America is detailed in his book. Dr. Candari is married to the love of his life, Cely, with whom he had six children and four grandchildren.