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Toto Abalajon

🇵🇭 Philippines🏥 East Avenue Medical Center, Quezon CityMD
Mentored by · fellowship 2017
Sanjay Kulkarni
with Pankaj Joshi

Training and career​

  • Current position Reconstructive urologist, East Avenue Medical Center, Quezon City, Philippines1
  • Teaching affiliations Reconstructive urology at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital, V. Luna Medical Center and East Avenue Medical Center training programs2
  • Residency Urology, University of the Philippines–Philippine General Hospital, with training in urologic oncology2
  • Fellowship Reconstructive urology training with Sanjay Kulkarni, Kulkarni Institute, Pune, India (2017)2
  • Leadership Founding treasurer (2019) and president (2022–2024), Philippine Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons23
  • Fellows trained Six fellows (2022–2026) are listed under him in the GURS fellowship tree; he reported the East Avenue Medical Center reconstructive urology fellowship census to the Philippine Urological Association in 202234

Contributions​

Mark Joseph "Toto" Abalajon returned from Pune to build reconstructive urology practice and training in Manila, working with Patrick Matias and Paksi Satyagraha on the Philippine Urological Association's first pelvic reconstruction masterclass in 2018 and helping found the Philippine Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons in 2019.2

  • Perineal simulation model for urethroplasty and artificial urinary sphincter placement (2025). Member of the 19-surgeon Delphi panel that set the design of a non-biohazardous 3D-printed hydrogel model of the male perineum; experts who tested the prototype agreed it replicated urethral exposure (91%) and overall anatomical relationships (100%).1

Footnotes​

  1. Cohen AJ, Saba P, Abalajon MT, et al. "International expert consensus on development of a state of the art male perineal anatomy simulation model for urethroplasty and artificial urinary sphincter insertion." Urology. 2025;201:117–123. doi:10.1016/j.urology.2025.03.054 (author affiliation: East Avenue Medical Center, Quezon City) ↩ ↩2

  2. Philippine Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons. Philippine Urological Association. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. PhilGURS. Philippine Urological Association. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2

  4. GURS Fellowship Tree. Lee Zhao, NYU Langone. Accessed October 2026. ↩