Lillian Gonzalez-Pardo

Lillian Gonzalez-Pardo (February 5, 1939 ) is a Filipino American physician. She is the first Asian American to serve as president of the American Medical Women's Association.

Early life and education Gonzalez-Pardo was born in Manila on February 5, 1939. She graduated from the University of the Philippines with a medical degree in 1962. She did an internship at the Philippines General Hospital. She was a neurology resident at the University of Kansas Medical Center from 1963 to 1967. She later switched her focus to child psychiatry. In 1967 Gonzalez-Pardo became a fellow at the Children's Mercy Hospital. While living in Kansas she met and married Manuel Pardo, another physician. During her tenure as president Gonzalez-Pardo pushed the organization to be more politically active both domestically and internationally.

Gonzalez-Pardo retired in 2006. Since her retirement she has conducted medical missions in the Philippines and done other volunteer and community work.

In 2017, she and her husband Manuel Pardo endowed an annual lecture on pediatric neurology by a visiting professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center, which has been named in her honor.

Personal life She and her husband have three grown children: Manuel Carlos, a physician, Lillian Elizabeth, a teacher, and Patrick, a writer, and five grandchildren.