Dr Jose Guerrero Tolentino

Jose Guerrero Tolentino (1900-1983) was a prominent private medical practitioner in dermatology in the Philippines from 1949 to the 1970s. He was resident physician to Eastern Visayas Treatment Station in Cebu, 1929-1930; resident physician at Eversley Childs Sanitarium in Cebu from 1930 to 1937; head of Eversley Childs Sanitarium from 1937 to 1949; research leprologist at the Leonard Wood Memorial in Cebu, 1951 to 1963; head of the Clinical Research Branch, Philippine Division, LWM, Cebu, 1963 to 1971. Tolentino retired from the LWM in 1971 although he continued part-time as a consultant. He was one of the founders of Cebu Institute of Medicine in 1957 and a member of its Board of Trustees. He authored and coauthored numerous papers on leprosy.

Obituary. International Journal of Leprosy Vol 52, No 2. 1983.

International Journal of Leprosy, Centennial Festskrift edition, Vol 41, No 2. 1973.

Research Institute(s) associated with:
Leonard Wood Memorial, Cebu, Philippines

Entry updated January 2016

• “Results of six months supplementary treatment of lepromatous patients with Mycobacterium marianum vaccine”, Int J Lepr, 25.4.1 (1957): 351-5.
• “Skin lesions benefited by vitamin A”, J Philipp Med Assoc, 26.12 (1950): 564-6.
• “Synergistic action of chaulmoogra and sulfone drugs”, J Philipp Med Assoc, 26.7 (1950):315-8.
• “A proposed modification of the segregation of leprosy cases in the Philippines”, J Philipp Med Assoc, 27.1 (1951): 21-6.