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Dr Filipina (Pina) Amosa-Lei Sam

Pina is blessed to be a wife and mother. She was a Samoan-based pathologist and the Head of School of the National University of Samoa School of Medicine, prior to taking professional development leave to pursue a PhD at the University of Otago.


She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine and is simultaneously undertaking a work attachment at the Southern Community Laboratories in Dunedin.


Her research interests are in potentially preventable cancers such as cervical and breast, and her present work focusses on cervical cancer.