History of Medical Technology Profession

Time/ Year Founder/ Scientist Work/ Discoveries

460 BC-377 BC Hippocrates Father of medicine
Four humors: Blood, Phlegm, Yellow bile, Black Bile
450 AD- 1450 Marcelo Malphigi Father of Modern Anatomic Pathology
AD
Jean Baptiste van Gravimetric testing of urine specimen
Helmont
1590 Hans and Zaccharias 1st compound microscope
Janssen
1632 Anton van Father of Microscopy
Leeuwenhooke
1665 Robert Hooke Discovery of cells from cork
1800 Dr. William Occam Collected data by using lab procedures to diagnose his
patients
1848 Hermann Von Fehling First quantitative test for sugar in urine
1858 Rudolf Virchow Cell theory and Father of Modern Pathology
1861 Louis Pasteur Father of Modern Bacteriology
1876 Robert Koch Koch’s Postulate: Proved that microorganisms transmit
disease
Edward Jenner Father of Immunology
Cowpox vaccination against smallpox
Alexander Flemming Invented penicillin from Penicillum notatum
Paul Ehrlich Discovered Salvarsan “magic bullet” as a cure for Syphilis
M. Ruth Williams Historian who noted that medical technology began
during the medieval period (1096 – 1438)
Vivian Herrick Historian who discovered ancient writing about intestinal
parasites such as Teania and Ascaris
1878 Dr. William Burdou Initiated the use of laboratory animals for
Sunderson experimentation as part of the means to diagnose
diseases

Dr. William H. Welsh Father of American Pathology

1908 Dr. James C. Todd and Wrote the manual for clinical diagnosis entitled as
Arthur H. Sanford “Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods”
which is further revised by Henry and Davidson

George Papaniculao Described the Pap’s staining technique

 Year Timeline of the History of Medtech Profession
Mid 1800 First clinical laboratory in the US is in the University of Michigan
1922 American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP) was organized
1925 University of Minnesota is credited with the first degree program in Medical Technology

1933 a new organization was formed, the American Society of Clinical Laboratory Technicians
(ASCLT), later renamed the American Society of Medical Technologists (ASMT)

1952 Gas-liquid chromatography developed by Martin and James

1953 Immunoelectrophoresis developed by Grabar and Williams
1957 Continuous flow Automatic Analyzer (Leonard Skeggs)
1965 Uncovered the major histocompatibility complex (HLA system) (Dausett, et al.)
1975 Introduced hybridoma technology and breakthrough in immunochemistry and
immunology leading to the discovery of tumor markers (Kohler and Milstein)

Year Timeline of the History of Medtech Profession in the Philippines

1945 1st laboratory in the Philippines: 26th Medical Laboratory of the 6th US Army is located in
Quiricada Sta. Cruz Manila is now known as Public Health Laboratory. It was left by the 6th
US Army in June 1945; endorsed to the National Department of Health

Reorganization of the laboratory: Dr. Pio de Roda assisted by Dr. Mariano Icasiano (then
Manila City Health Officer) It was then later named as Manila Public Health Laboratory
1947 Dr. Pio de Roda in collaboration with Dr. Prudencia Sta Ana
Trained were mostly high school graduates and paramedical graduates as laboratory
workers

1954 1st formalized training for laboratory workers were formalized by Dr. Sta Ana

1954 Philippine Union College of Baesa, Caloocan, Rizal offered the first four-year BS Medical
Technology course thru Manila Sanitarium and Hospital

1956 Dr. Jesse Umali first graduate of BS Medical Technology at PUC (Philippine Union College)
1957- Rev. Fr. Lorenzo Rodriguez decided to offer medical technology as a course
1958
1963 (Philippine Association of Medical technology (PAMET) was founded by Mr. Crisanto
Almario
1970 Philippine Association of Schools in Medical technology and Public Health(PASMETH ) was
founded to maintain the highest standard of MT/PH education and to foster closer relations
among these schools