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RYAN DEAN T. SUCGANG is a practicing physical therapist in academia and research since 2000 at the Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU), City of Batac, Ilocos Norte, where he is currently holding the position of Associate Professor III. He was a former PT Department Chairperson (2012-2015), College Secretary of the College of Medicine (2013-2017), and OIC-Dean of the College of Health Sciences (2020-2023). He is currently designated as the university director of the Human Movement and Artistic Innovation Center– the sports and performing arts arm of MMSU.
He finished his Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy at the MMSU in 1999. He earned his Master of Science in Human Movement Science at the University of the Philippines – College of Human Kinetics in Diliman, Quezon City where he was awarded the GAWAD KINETIKA for outstanding graduate student and outstanding graduate thesis, respectively, in 2008.
He has been a research adviser of PT undergraduate research since 2003 and has been the lead organizer of the PT Research Colloquium on hybrid mode since 2021. He is the MMSU project leader on indigenous health practices of the Philippine-Canadian collaboration on indigenous knowledge systems and cultural management. This earned him the privilege to be part of the country’s delegation to Canada for a study visit under CHED in 2022. He is also a research team member on the health conditions of tobacco farmers (funded by DOST-PCHRD, 2023) as well as the mental health strategies employed by students, faculty members, and non-teaching staff (funded by MMSU-GAA, 2022). He also leads a research team that is currently discovering the potential of bamboo as an assistive device through Project SARUKOD (funded by MMSU-GAA, 2023). He is a consultant for the University Research Ethics Review Board, in which he served as Member-Secretary and Chair. He is the chair of the writing team that is currently preparing MMSU’s Code of Research Ethics for University Researchers. Further, he is the Chair of the Committee on Information Dissemination, Training, and Advocacy of the Region-1 Ethics Monitoring Board.