Dr. Aldo Arrastia Ilarde started his medical journey at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine in Manila, Philippines. He then pursued his Internal Medicine training at Lutheran Medical Center (now NYU Langone) in Brooklyn, NY and completed his Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism fellowship at UCLA and the VA Medical Center in Sepulveda, CA. He then relocated to Murfreesboro, TN where he served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Alvin C. York VA…