Dr. Tom Colina
‘Just a Dentist’
When Tom Colina [DMD/89] became the first Filipino dentist to open a practice in Winnipeg in 1993, he didn’t see it as a significant milestone.
He was just doing what he’d been trained to do at the UM dental school. But leaders in the Filipino-Canadian community quickly told him he was now a role model.
“The Filipino community was excited,” Colina recalls. “They came, and we were swamped with patients.”





