Currently a consultant of the Philippine General Hospital’s Department of Orthopedics, he is popular among LU3 students as a versatile, enthusiastic and intelligent Professor of Anatomy in the UP College of Medicine. Little do medical students realize that the Dr. Bundoc they know is but the tip of an iceberg to the Pipo we brods are very much acquainted to: Assistant Chair of the PGH Department of Pay Patient Services, Metrobank Outstanding Teacher (Collegiate Level) Awardee in 2005, recipient of the annual Dr. Augusto Camara Best Teacher Award in 2010, and for his innovations in orthopaedic surgery and biomechanical research, one of the 1996 Ten Outstanding Young Men for Medicine for his research. He is also actively involved in the Amputee Support Group, an organization which aims to amputees recover and lead normal lives. More than willing to provide unique learning opportunities for his younger brods, his advocacy has been the centrepiece of some of the Fraternity’s best Service projects, such as MUbility, the Amputee Climb, and wheelchair and prosthetic leg donations, among others.

An avid fan of historical and antique items, Pipo’s home is a mini-museum of some of the Philippine’s rarest artefacts, so each year he would make it a point to invite the younger brods to his place. Being the ingenious, brilliant mind that he is, rather than simply collecting these rare items, he channelled his unique passion for history and spearheaded a major Fraternity projected which eventually won the Anvil Award of Merit in 2008, just in time for the Fraternity’s Diamond Anniversary: A Priori, Ad Infinitum, a coffee-table book on the history of the Philippine General Hospital, the UP College of Medicine, and the Mu Sigma Phi Fraternity.

Starting out as an aspiring architect from Tondo, Manila, one would think that the countless achievements and rewards he had acquired would eventually convince him to rest on his laurels. Contrary to that, Brod Pipo remains a constant figure during the membership activities of the Fraternity, passionately inspiring young men by being a living testament to the limitless capacities of young potential brods. He remarked once that when he thought of quitting from the College of Medicine, sparked by the death of his mother during his internship year, only the Fraternity’s support pulled him through, and that he would not have been able to graduate without the Mu. He strongly considers his active participation in securing young blood for the Fraternity as a simple act of paying it forward.

Some golden words from Brod Pipo: “In the hardest of times, never back down. Marami tayong pinagdaanan na tayo lamang ang makakakakaya. So be proud of who you are, and the rest will follow, dahil walang makakatibag sa inyo.”

Brod Pipo – a man for the ages, a true-blue Mu. All For The Glory!

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