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Speaker

May 19-20, 2020    Berlin, Germany
1st World Congress on

Personalized Medicine and Pharmacogenomics

Pleayo Tovaranonte
11:30 AM-12:00 PM

Pleayo Tovaranonte

New Zealand

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Biography: Dr Pleayo Tovaranonte is a general practitioner and physician in New Zealand. He graduated from the University of Otago and finished his internship at King's College, London with further postgraduate qualifications in Sports & Aviation Medicine, Health Services Management, Entrepreneurship, Medical Law & Bioethics. Dr Pleayo taught at the University of Otago as a senior lecture in Internal Medicine and General Practice. He has published widely in the field of Disaster Medicine and Medical Technology. He is the Medical Director of Precision Medicine International Ltd, a personalized Medicine & pharmacogenomics platform. He is also a Managing Director of Rev3 Tech, a company utilising Augmented and Virtual Reality in the medical and education industries. Outside work, he helped establish a not-for-profit organisation, Beyond the Stethoscope, to encourage junior doctors to volunteer their time and skills in developing countries.

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