Tropical Medicine: Practising Medicine in A Low Resource Setting – Madagascar

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Tropical Medicine: Practising Medicine in A Low Resource Setting – Madagascar

by Reverend Archimandrite Anastasios Poyiadjis, MD, PhD, Honorary Professor of Tropical Medicine, UNIC Medical School

Introduction by Prof Panayiotis Karanis, Professor of Anatomy, UNIC Medical School

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Reverend Archimandrite Anastasios Poyiadjis is an Honorary Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Nicosia Medical School. He received his MD and PhD from the Medical School of the University of Athens and he specialised in internal medicine. He was then ordained to the priesthood of the Orthodox Church and received his Degree of Theology.

From  1993  to the present day he has devoted most of his time to working as a Missionary Priest and Doctor in various African countries: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, and Madagascar. He has gained wealth of clinical experience in Tropical Medicine, and he is a specialist in adapting medical practice to low income health settings, particularly in rural areas.

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