Adamos Adamou
Cypriot politician
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Adamos Adamou (Greek: Αδάμος Αδάμου; 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.
Adamos Adamou | |
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Αδάμος Αδάμου | |
Official portrait, 2004 | |
| President of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 23 October 2020 – 8 June 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Demetris Syllouris |
| Succeeded by | Annita Demetriou |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 2004–2009 | |
| Chair of the European Parliament Delegation for relations with Palestine | |
| In office 20 September 2004 – 14 March 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Luisa Morgantini |
| Succeeded by | Kyriacos Triantaphyllides |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 October 1950 |
| Party | Progressive Party of Working People |
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Biography
He was the Chairman of the Delegation for relations between the EU and the Palestinian Legislative Council. As a chairman, he is a member of the Conference of Delegation Chairmen. In December 2009, he became 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
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
