Lifetime Achievement Award

Orange-Irvine Doctors of Kids & Teens Medical Group,
Founding Director, FACCOC

As our honored Lifetime Achievement Awardee tonight, Dr. Co-Casquejo is an extraordinarily accomplished member of our community. She is currently board certified with the American Board of Pediatrics, a Fellow with the American Academy of Pedicatrics, a member of the Orange County Pediatric Society and an Associate Clinical Professor, Volunteer Faculty with the department of Pediatrics of the University of California, Irvine. Since 1995 and presently, she has been associated with the Private Group Practice in Pediatrics Orange & Irvine Doctors of Kids and teens. And he was the sole proprietor for her pediatrics practice from 1981 to 1995.

Dr. Co-Casquejo received her Doctorate of Medicine and Surgery from the prestigious University of San Tomas in Manila, Philippines. Additionally she had her residency and fellowship in pediatrics at Wayne State University Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit Michigan.

Her outstanding contributions to the community are numerous. In 1979 she started Headstart Programming for Underprivileged Children, Orange County. She also helped to co-found Lestonnac Free Clinic in Orange with Sister Marie Therese and she served on the Charter Board of Directors the FilAm Chamber of Commerce in 1993 with Nolan Alejandro Reality. She served as the secretary and then president of FACCOC from 1993-1995. She held the position of Director of Religious Enrichment for the Federation Filipino Rosary Group, Orange County from 2002-2004 and was on the charter Board of Directors for the Orange Catholic Foundation. She has been a member of the Holy Rosary Philippine Chamber Choral from 1994 onto the present and has served as a Parishioner at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Laguna Woods since 1979. She has also been a Pastoral Parish Council member from 2001-2004 and a Eucharist Minister to the Elder, Sick and Homebound from 2003-present. She is a Benefactor for Gawad Kalinga, ANCOP an organization which build homes and communities in the most poverty stricken areas of the Philippines. She served on the board of directors for the Filipino Pastoral Ministry, Orange County and also on the board of directors for Women Doctors of Orange County.

In addition to her many accomplishments she is happily married to Ernesto D. Casquejo, P.E., retired Structural Engineer. She has three children (Lourdes Ernelita, Luz Marie, and Vincent Ernest) and four grandchildren (Kiana, Marinna, Sofia, and Benjamin).

Tonight we wish to honor, celebrate and thank her for her many life's accomplishments and the many ways she has helped improve the lives of others.