Special to the Tribune-Star
TERRE HAUTE —
Senior Education Ministries Inc. has scheduled Dine with a Doc on the fourth Wednesday of every month from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Wabash Senior Citizens Center at 300 S. Fifth St.
Dine with a Doc is a free event that welcomes the local senior public to hear the doctor of the month present an educational topic while attendees enjoy a complimentary meal. You do not need to be a member of the Senior Center to come and participate. Just bring a questioning mind, an appetite and perhaps a friend. Each doctor has graciously donated this time in effort to listen, hear and answer your questions while sharing a meal with you.
The Dine with a Doc program was designed to allow the seniors to get out of their homes, fellowship with their peers, extend their available financial resources, promote enhanced living and educate them (from a preventive standpoint) with the goal of ensuring their quality of life and providing them with the resources and information to make an informed decision.
The “Doc” at 11 a.m. July 28 is neurosurgeon Manuel Cacdac.
Practicing in Terre Haute, Cacdac finds time, as a member of the Society of Philippine Surgeons in America, to return to the Philippines to perform free operations in poor communities.
Cacdac, also known to the people in the Philippines as the “ShuntMan,” referring to “shunting,” the surgical method of artificially creating a passage between two natural body channels such as blood vessels, to divert or permit flow from one pathway through another, often by way of a bypass. “Shunting” is the surgical procedure used to save the life of hydrocephalus victims, many of whom are young children.
Cacdac graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Santo Tomas, Manila.
Cacdac finished his residency in neurosurgery at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and a fellowship in microneurosurgery. He was an instructor in two postgraduate courses in microneurosurgery.
Cacdac spent two years in the U.S. Navy as assistant chief of neurosurgery at the Naval Hospital in Boston. He had the rank of commander from the U.S. Navy when he left the service. He practiced neurosurgery at the Trover Clinic in western Kentucky and then moved his practice to Terre Haute in 1975.
Lunch will be provided courtesy of Meadows Manor East.
For more information, call (812) 917-4970, e-mail senioreducationministries@yahoo.com or go to www.senioreducationministries.org or www.dinewithadoc.com.
