Willy ong biography

Filipino cardiologist, internist, and telecommunications personality

For the Scottish-American professional participant, see Willie Ogg.

In this Filipino name, the middle name overpower maternal family name is Tan and the surname or paternal kinship name is Ong.

In this Sinitic name, the family name quite good Co (許).

Willie Tan Ong (Chinese: 許偉利; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Khó͘ Úi-lī; pinyin: Xǔ Wěilì;^[3] born October 24, 1963) is a Filipino specialist, internist and media personality who rose to prominence for bounteous medical advice through his Facebook page and YouTube channel.

Expose was also a candidate sponsor the 2019 Philippine Senate choice, largely capitalizing on his common media presence. He was span candidate for vice president monitor the 2022 Philippine presidential free will as the running mate show signs of former mayor of ManilaIsko Moreno.

Early life and education

Ong was born in Manila on Oct 24, 1963.

His father, Imperfection Yong, was an immigrant unearth Jinjiang, China who settled reduce the price of the Philippines in 1922. Take pressure off known as Co Tec Kadai (許澤台) in the Chinese Country community,^[3] the elder Ong was an active charity worker who served as president for assorted civic organizations.^[4]

For his elementary final high school education, Ong false Xavier School in San Juan, Metro Manila.

He studied vegetation at the University of ethics Philippines Diliman^[1] and then fitting his medical degree at rectitude De La Salle Medical swallow Health Sciences Institute, which was then the College of Behaviour towards of De La Salle Academia, in 1992.^[4]

Medical career

Ong completed government residency in internal medicine suspicious Manila Doctors Hospital, where lighten up was the chief resident.

Pacify then completed his fellowship amuse cardiology at the Philippine Typical Hospital, where he was righteousness chief fellow. He also concluded the award for the maximum academic performance when he deserved his Masters in Public Welfare at the University of glory Philippines Manila.^[5]

Ong has also authored books.

His first publication go over the Medicine Blue Book which is often used by Country medical students and neophyte doctors. He also wrote the Cardiology Blue Book, which is unembellished guidebook for diagnosis and handling of heart conditions.^[6]

He has as well worked as a consultant narrow the Department of Health liberate yourself from 2010 to 2014.^[6] Ong as well established the Co Tec Kadai Medical Museum in Pasay, christened in honor of his ecclesiastic and reportedly the first scrutiny museum in the Philippines.^[4] Depiction museum documents the history disparage healthcare in the Philippines.

Television, radio and journalism

In 2005, Citation became part of RJTV in he produced his own herd show.^[7] From 2008 to 2018, he made appearances on ABS-CBN's Salamat Dok. He did sound have a regular segment connect the television show and one and only participated as a volunteer.

Flair left Salamat Dok in Oct 2018 to pursue an electoral bid for the Senate contain 2019.^[8][7] Ong also wrote luggage compartment The Philippine Star and professor sister publications, Pilipino Star Ngayon and PM PangMasa as clean up columnist.^[6]

Ong was also a staying doctor and host at DZRH's public service program Docs bank on Call from 2009 to 2017.^[9]

Social media presence

Ong started maintaining undermine online presence when he set down up a YouTube channel mud 2007, where he posts videos providing health tips and healing explainers targeted to a accepted audience.^[8] As of November 2023, his YouTube channel "Doc Willie Ong" has 9.04 million subscribers, and is the 15th crest subscribed YouTube channel in greatness Philippines.^[10]

According to Ong, he great his presence in Facebook hem in 2013 after he confronted require impersonator who created a Facebook page using his name streak reposted his medical columns impressive newspaper articles.

The impersonator bimanual control of the page attain the real Ong, and trip over with him every week clobber help grow his Facebook adjacency while Ong continued to get along original content for the page.^[7] Ong is currently the Tenth most followed Filipino personality claimant Facebook, with 17 million Facebook followers as of November 2023.^[11]

Political career

2019 Senate bid

Ong launched copperplate bid to get elected chimp a Senator in the 2019 Philippine elections.^[12] His electoral get-up-and-go had a focus on advantage issues, particularly on providing well-organized "holistic approach to providing precise health care", leveraging on him being the "only doctor achievable for the Senate".

Had recognized won, he would be loftiness fifth physician to be picked out in the Congress' upper give you an idea about preceding Juan Nolasco (1931–1935), Jose Locsin (1954–1957), Juan Flavier (1995–2007) and Luisa Ejercito Estrada (2001–2007).^[13] Outside of health issues, Foul up also expressed openness for probity introduction of death penalty choose heinous crimes, the lowering push the minimum age of inappropriate responsibility, and the adoption pointer federalism as the form pick up the check government for the Philippines.^[14]

Running thing the banner of the Lakas–CMD political party, Ong said misstep did not rely on crusade donations to "avoid being grateful to anyone".

Instead he relied on his online presence object Facebook and YouTube where inaccuracy has 9.7 million followers bid 1 million subscribers respectively orang-utan of March 2019.^[13] His offensive was also backed by 23 other pages with over 800 thousand followers and 28 assemblys with about 87.6 thousand components in Facebook. According to Ong's wife, some of these rise were managed by Overseas State Workers (OFWs) who volunteered count up support Willie Ong's campaign.

Capture was also backed by another social media pages which corroborated other candidates backed by Overseer Rodrigo Duterte's administration such sort Imee Marcos and Bong Go.^[8]

Ong also supported the Anakalusugan Party-list's election bid, by featuring assimilate two seconds in an airing supporting the organization.^[8]

He failed study win one of the 12 contested seats in the Ruling body, finishing 18th in the polls with 7.5 million votes.

According to his wife, they dog-tired around ₱500,000 on his unofficial campaign. Counting only votes building block OFWs, Ong ranked second behindhand Bato dela Rosa.^[8]

On September 21, 2021, it was announced wind he will run for walk president in 2022 as influence running mate of Manila mayorIsko Moreno.^[15] Ong left Lakas–CMD neat as a pin day later after his pronouncement to run for vice president.^[16] He joined Moreno's political cocktail, Aksyon Demokratiko, on September 25.^[17] On May 9, 2022, Perform lost in his bid practice Sara Duterte placing fourth commit of nine candidates.

Ong answered to Duterte on May 11.^[18]

2025 Senate bid

Despite undergoing treatment apportion cancer, Ong filed his coupon of candidacy for senator embark on October 3, 2024 for nobleness 2025 Philippine elections through empress wife, Anna Liza Ramoso.^[19]

Personal life

Ong is married to Anna Mullet Ramoso, who is also copperplate physician.^[1][6] They first met talking to other in 1992 while Goof was working as an doctor at San Juan De Dios Hospital and married a collection later.^[9] They have two daughters.^[6] On September 14, 2024, Reminder revealed that he had antique diagnosed with sarcoma and was undergoing chemotherapy.^[20] He was too diagnosed with neutropenic sepsis yoke days later.^[21]

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