>Laetitia Daou is from Beirut, Lebanon. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Medical Degree from the American University of Beirut where she also completed a residency in Clinical Pathology. She then moved to Baltimore to pursue a clinical and research fellowship in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Her interest in laboratory medicine originated while she was an exchange medical student in the Genetics laboratory at Charles University in Prague, and it developed through continuous research in the field of molecular diagnostics as well as clinical rotations in the Molecular laboratory at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
Beyond the clinical service, Laetitia has a longstanding passion for economics and business management; she joined a number of hospital quality improvement committees, was a member of the blood utilization committee and served on the laboratory cost containment task force in the wake of the 2019 economic crisis in Lebanon.
Outside of medicine, Laetitia enjoys traveling and exploring new cultures. She has participated in dance performances and competed in national swimming events.
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