Dr. Nestor S. Arce, Jr. is Dean of the College of Medicine at Jose Maria College Foundation, Inc. in Davao City, Philippines. A San Pedro College alumnus who later trained at Xavier University’s Dr. Jose P. Rizal College of Medicine, he served with the German Doctors for Developing Countries in Valencia, Bukidnon, before pursuing advanced clinical training in Clinical Tropical Medicine at Mahidol University in Bangkok, where he developed expertise in infectious diseases, HIV, and arboviral infections, along with further training in vaccine research through the Asia Pacific Vaccine Research Network in Melbourne.