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.