Adamos Adamou

Cypriot politician

Αδάμος Αδάμου

President of the House of RepresentativesIn office
23 October 2020 – 8 June 2021Preceded byDemetris SyllourisSucceeded byAnnita DemetriouMember of the European ParliamentIn office
2004–2009 Personal detailsBorn (1950-10-30) October 30, 1950 (age 73)Political partyProgressive Party of Working PeopleSignature

Adamos Adamou (born 30 October 1950) is a Cypriot politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Progressive Party of Working People, sitting with the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group from 2004 to 2009.^[1] He sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He did not stand for reelection in the 2009 European elections.

Adamou was deputy director of Pathological Oncology Clinic.

Biography

He is the Chairman of the Delegations for relations between EU with the Palestinian Legislative Council. As a chairman, he is a member of the Conference of Delegation Chairmen. Became (Dec 2009) Patron of The Friends' Hospice Paphos, a charitable organisation established in 2006, attached to the Evangelismos hospital in Paphos, Cyprus.

He is also a substitute of the Committee on Culture and Education and of the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee.

Education

1976: Graduate in medicine (Athens)
2001: specialised in pathology (1982) and pathological oncology

Career

1976–79: Doctor with the Hellenic Anticancer Society
1979–84: Specialist doctor and pathologist at Pathology Clinic I of the Hellenic Red Cross Hospital
1984–85: Lecturer and deputy director of Pathological Oncology Clinic I of the Agioi Anargyroi Hospital (Athens)
1988–98: Deputy director of the Clinical Oncology Department of Nicosia General Hospital
from 2004: Consultant Oncologist at the Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre (1998–2003) and at the Medical 'Prevention' Centre
from 2003: ΑΚΕL-Left – New Powers Member
Member of the parliamentary Health, Environmental, European Affairs and Audit Committees
from 1998: Representative of Cyprus in the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)
Member of the Cyprus Medical Association and chairman of its Bioethics Committee
Member of the Cyprus Anticancer Association and chairman of its information committee
Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Karaiskakio Foundation
Honourable mention from the Hellenic Breast Cancer Research Society
Honourable mention and plaque from the Hellenic Psychosocial Oncology Society