Asia’s best CEO is speaker of Davao Doc graduation

Jose Ma. K. Lim, President of Metro Pacific Investments Corporation and chosen by Corporate Governance-Asia, a Hongkong-based business journal, as one of Asia’s Best CEO, is going to address the graduates of Davao Doctors College during the school’s commencement ceremonies for its Class of 2015 at the SMX Convention Center, SM Lanang, Davao City this Friday, April 10, 2015 . Lim is also the Chairman of the Board of Davao Doctors Hospital and is a Director and Officer of several other companies in the MPIC Group of Companies headed by business leader Manuel V. Pangilinan. He is an alumnus of the Ateneo de Manila University and the Asian Institute of Management where he finished the Master in Business Management Program. An active member of the Management Association of the Philippines, Lim is known as a turnaround strategist and is acknowledged as one of those instrumental in bringing the MPIC Group of Companies to the heights it is enjoying today. He has been cited by his own alma mater, the Asian Institute of Management, as one executive whose formula for success is anchored on “… empowering individuals and teams with vision and proper guidance to do what needs to be done.”
Davao Doctors College, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Davao Doctors Hospital, is the city’s foremost proponent of healthcare education, which has been declared by the Professional Regulation Commission as the country’s top performing school in Radiologic Technology due to its superior performance in the latest board examination for radiologic technologists, besting even the best schools in Metro Manila and Cebu. The Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA) recently awarded the school’s BS Nursing Program for attaining Level IV, the highest level of accreditation for nursing in the country. The school is also known for its entrepreneurship-enhanced degree programs where students undergo entrepreneurship training regardless of the course they are enrolled in. Aside from Radiologic Technology and Nursing, Davao Doctors College also offers Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Medical Laboratory Science (popularly known as Medical Technology), Psychology, Biology (with a major in Medicinal Horticulture), Optometry, Education (with a major in Biological Science), Entrepreneurship (with a focus on medical entrepreneurship), Tourism and Hospitality Management (both focused on medical tourism). It has two graduate programs: Master of Arts in Nursing and Master in Business Administration major in Medical Entrepreneurship. Its MBA Program is offered under a consortium arrangement with the University of Mindanao. Prof. Miguel D. Soledad, former Vice Chancellor of the University of the Philippines Mindanao, who, like Lim, is also an alumnus of AIM, heads the school as President and CEO.