Alumni as trailblazers in the medical and allied and health sciences include Phebe L. Pendon (first Filipino fellow of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation), Loreto D. Tupaz (considered as the pioneer and pillar of the nursing profession in the Philippines and hailed as the Florence Nightingale of the Philippines), Nicasia Cada (one of the first three graduate nurses of the Philippines who graduated in 1909), Dorotea Caldito (one of the first three graduate nurses of the Philippines who graduated in 1909), and Felipa De la Pena (Gumabong) (one of the first three nursing graduates of the country from Union Mission Hospital Training School for Nurses, now Central Philippine University College of Nursing, the first and oldest nursing school in the Philippines),