Outstanding Congressman Award 2013
Hon. Scott Davies S. Lanete Representative, Masbate Province, 3rd District Committees • Poverty Alleviation • Public Order And Safety • Appropriations • Basic Education And Culture • Bicol Recovery And Economic Development • Energy
• Games And Amusements • Health • National Defense And Security • Public Works And Highways • Tourism • Transportation
Honorable Scott Davies S. Lanete, M.D., Representative in the Third District, Province of Masbate, was born in Cebu City on October 1, 1982. During elementary and high school, he had consistently been sent by the Boy Scouts of the Philippines as a delegate to represent the Philippines in other countries. He had been an Ambassador of Goodwill to the High Sierra International Rendezvous held in Nevada, California and an Ambassador of Goodwill to the Nippon Jamboree in Akita, Japan. He also garnered the Eagle Scout rank at age 14. The following year, he was chosen as the Regional Representative for the Visayas. He had also been given the honor as one of the Ten Outstanding Boy Scouts of the Philippines and was awarded in Subic coinciding with the Centennial Jamboree of BSP. He, then, graduated high school with honors at Sacred Heart School in 1999. Rep. Lanete is a graduate of B.S. Pharmacy at the University of the Philippines where he had been Councilor of the University Student Council and the Philippine Representative to the 13th Korean International Youth Forum, among other activities. He continued his post-graduate studies at the University of the East – Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center. His thesis entitled “O Smile Naman Dyan: A Quasi-Experiment Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Public Health Information Campaign in Raising Awareness of Depression and Suicide Among Filipino Adolescents” offered him a ticket to officially represent the UERM-College of Medicine to the “International Medical Students Conference” held in 2008 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, along with two other delegates. He, then, graduated B.S. Medicine in 2009. Despite his busy campaign for the 2010 Local Elections, Rep. Lanete, who was then a newly-graduate of medicine, managed to pursue his review in preparation for the board exams. Successfully the same year, after he was duly-elected as Congressman, he also passed the Physician Licensure Examination, making him a certified medical doctor and a public servant.
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