Dr Josephine Ana Borja Erece
| Dr Josephine Ana Borja Erece | |
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| Born | Baguio City, Philippines |
| 🏡 Residence | Brisbane, Australia |
| 🏫 Education | Doctor of Medicine, Fellow Royal Australian College of General Practitioners |
| 💼 Occupation | Private Specialist General Practice in Brisbane, Australia |
Background[edit]
Dr. Josephine Ana Borja Erece is a medical doctor by profession and is a parent and long time advocate for Gifted and Talented education. Her advocacy involved sharing her experiences around raising her 2 profoundly gifted and talented children and initiating collaborative ways for schools, government agencies of New Zealand and Australia and the medical field to create the best possible opportunities for Gifted and Talented development. She was a presenter in the study titled- "Yes, Dad. I can hear you, I'm choosing to ignore you.", during the 2019 World Council for Gifted and Talented Children World Conference in an open conference peer review in Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee[1].The study highlighted the challenges her daughter, Maynah Lourellen Borja Erece, an exceptionally gifted student with moderate to severe hearing loss as she successfully navigated both the Australian and New Zealand mainstream school systems. She is the mother of another profoundly gifted and talented son, Jozef Maynard Borja Erece whose case was presented at the 22nd Biennial World Council for Gifted and Talented Children's Conference in Sydney, Australia on July, 2017 in an open conference peer review aptly titled: "The Making of a Modern Day Renaissance Man- the unique case of Jozef Erece"[2]
Career and Family life:[edit]
Dr. Borja-Erece initially trained in the field of Psychiatry and is presently working as a specialist General practitioner in Brisbane, Australia. She is married to Dr. Maynard Victor Erece, a long time global advocate for gifted and talented education. Their advocacy with gifted and talented education started early with their son, Jozef Maynard Borja-Erece and daughter, Maynah Josephine Lourellen Borja-Erece both profoundly gifted children. During the 2019 World Conference for Gifted and Talented Children, she mentioned her active choice of "one parent at home" during the early developmental stages of gifted and talented children to be able to identify and support early developmental stages. She also mentioned how the challenges and complexities of collaborating with agencies and schools merely fuelled her quest to get the best possible outcome for her children.
