RESEARCH

INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE QUALITY

Filinvest Corporate City Compound MANUAL
Alabang, Muntinlupa City

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Glaiza Gaile Erese, RN Edison R. Alberto, MD Socorro P. Lupisan, MD
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DIRECTOR

Major Committees 1

Assistant Director

Minor Committees 2

Clinical Research Laboratory Research Biological Manufacturing Administrative Finance Division

Division Division 3 Division Division

Medical Parasitology Quality Assurance BioMed Engineering Accounting

Dermatology Entomology Production Procurement Budget

Nursing Microbiology Quality Control General Engineering Cashier

Department of Epidemiology and Virology Storage and Distribution General Records

Biostatistics

Pharmacy Immunology General Services

Medical Social Work Pathology Materials Management

Department

Health Information Molecular Biology Planning Office

Management Department Laboratory

Diagnostic Imaging National TB Reference Human Resource

Department Laboratory

Dietary Antimicrobial Resistance Information

Surveillance Program

Veterinary Research
Department
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Institutional
Review Board
1 DIRECTOR
Institutional Animal
Care Unit
Committee
Quality Assurance Office Health Emergency Management
Office

Training Office Bids and Awards Committee

Research and Innovation Office Communications and Engagement

Office

Surveillance and Response Unit Safety Committee

Infection and Prevention

Medical Credentials Control Committee
Committee
BioRisk Management
Office

Occupational Health and

Safety Committee

Assistant Director
2

PRAISE Committee Records Management

Improvement Committee

Selection and Promotion Emergency Operations

Board Center

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3 RITM National Reference Laboratories

Antimicrobial Resistance Bacterial Enteric Diseases
Surveillance Reference Laboratory

Emerging and Re-Emerging Mycology
Bacterial Diseases


Dengue and Other Arboviruses Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses


Measles and Other Exanthems Polio and Other Enteroviruses

Tuberculosis Rotavirus and Other Enteric Viruses

Malaria and Other Parasites Transfusion- Transmissible Infections


List of Sub-Committees/Units under Major Committees:

BAC Sub-Committees:
1. BAC Secretariat
2. Inspection and Acceptance Committee
3. Technical Working Group
QAO Sub-Committees:
1. Forms Committee
2. Public Assistance and Complaint Unit (PACU)

Minor Committees:
Clinical Research Division:
1. Patient Safety Committee
2. Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
2.1. Adverse Drug Reaction
2.2. Anti-Microbial Stewardship (AMS)
Administrative Division:
1. Performance Management Team
2. Integrity Development Committee
3. Inventory and Disposal Committee
4. Grievance Committee - under Human Resource Department
Task Force/Technical Working Group:
1. GAD Focal Point System
2. Surveillance and Outbreak Response Committee(SORC)
Laboratory Research Division:
1. Chemical Safety

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List of Sections:

Administrative Division:
General Engineering:
1. Motorpool
General Services:
1. Training Center
2. Dormitory
3. Janitorial
4. Security

Finance Division:
Accounting:
1. Billing

Clinical Research Division:
Medical
1. Emergency Section
2. Employees Health Services
3. HIV Clinic
4. Out-Patient Section
5. TB-DOTS
6. Ward/ ICU
Dermatology
1. Leprosy
DEBS
1. Library
Dietary
1. Food Production Service
2. Clinical Service
HIMD
1. Out-Patient Section
2. In-Patient Section
3. Support Services
Nursing
1. Administrative Services
2. Clinical and OPD
3. Linen and Laundry/CSR
4. Research
5. Training



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Laboratory Research Division

Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Reference Laboratory
1. Laboratory Section
2. Data Management System
3. Secretariat
Immunology:
1. Quality Management
2. Research and Development
Medical Entomology
1. Surveillance Section
2. Insecticide Resistance Section
3. Molecular Entomology Section
4. Systematics and Bio-ecology Section
5. Vector Control Section
Microbiology:
1. Emerging and Re-emerging Bacterial Diseases
2. Bacterial Enteric Diseases
3. Mycology
4. Invasive Bacterial Vaccine Preventable Diseases
5. NEQAS
Molecular Biology Laboratory
1. Core Facility Section
2. Research and Development Section
3. Molecular Diagnostics Section
4. Quality Assurance Section
National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory
1. Administrative Unit
2. Laboratory Services Unit
3. Training and Development Unit
4. Program Support and Quality Management Unit
5. Policy Research Unit
6. Monitoring and Evaluation Data Management Unit
7. Quality Circle
Parasitology
1. Routine Diagnostic Laboratory
2. Reference Laboratory
3. Training
4. Research
Pathology
1. Clinical Laboratory
2. Histopathology
3. Electron Microscopy
4. TTI-NRL
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Veterinary Research Department

1. Special Pathogens Laboratory Section
2. Laboratory Animal Section
3. Experimental Animal Facility
Virology
1. Routine Diagnostic Section
2. Polio and Other Enteroviruses
3. Dengue and Other Arboviruses
4. Measles and Other Exanthems
5. Rotavirus and Other Enteric Diseases
6. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses

Biological Manufacturing Division
Production Department
1. PCAV Section
2. Experimental BCG
3. Labeling and Packaging
Quality Control
1. Microbiology Section
2. PCAV- QC Section
3. Experimental BCG - QC Section
4. Chemistry Section
Quality Assurance
1. Compliance, Validation and Training Section
2. Document Control Section
3. Manufacturing Control Section
4. Engineering Section
Storage and Distribution Section
1. Storage Section
2. Distribution Section
3. Raw Materials Section



List of Units:
Clinical Research Division
1. CRD QA
2. Clinical Research Unit