Dr. Maria Lormina Ley Tupas, MD

Dr. Tupas was born and raised in the Philippines where she obtained her medical degree from the University of Santo Tomas, in Manila, the oldest Catholic University in the Far East. She completed a one-year rotating internship at the Makati Medical Center in Metro Manila. She then engaged in general practice for four years while she raised a family. She finished her three-year pediatric residency at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in Bronx, New York, where she was Assistant Chief Resident during her PL-3 year. After this, she joined the Pediatric Emergency Room attending staff at Lincoln Hospital for one year. She later joined the Children?s Hospital of Orange County and is currently Medical Director of Ambulatory Care Services at CHOC, Pediatric Residency Coordinator for Adolescent Medicine and Medical Director of the CHOC Spina Bifida Clinic.