Luis Blasco
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Civic Conversations
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Dr. Luis Blasco has spent his life healing those around him. He grew up in Spain before travelling to Belgian Congo to specialize in tropical disease. From there, he travelled to the United States, and spent most of his professional career as a reproductive endocrinologist first at the University of Pennsylvania, and then at Drexel University Medical School in Philadelphia. Today, he uses his fluency in four languages and extensive medical knowledge to help fight the spread of Covid 19.
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