Adamos Adamou

Adamos Adamou is a Cypriot politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Progressive Party of Working People, sitting with the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group from 2004 to 2009. 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.

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.

1976: Graduate in medicine
2001: specialised in pathology 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
1988–98: Deputy director of the Clinical Oncology Department of Nicosia General Hospital
from 2004: Consultant Oncologist at the Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre 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
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