Joseph Anthony Tumbocon is the head of the glaucoma service and assistant head for undergraduate education at St. Luke’s Medical Center Quezon City; an active medical staff at St. Luke’s Medical Center Global City; and a professor of ophthalmology at St. Luke’s College of Medicine in the Philippines. He is a board member of the Asia Pacific Glaucoma Society, trustee of the Philippine Board of Ophthalmology and a former president of the Philippine Glaucoma Society.
Dr. Tumbocon obtained his medical degree at the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines and completed his ophthalmology residency training in the same institution. He underwent further training as a clinical fellow in glaucoma at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, USA from 2000 to 2001; and completed another year of clinical fellowship in cornea & external disease at the University of Toronto, Canada in 2002.