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Athens Medical Group, the largest Greek Healthcare Group, aims to provide innovative and quality healthcare services with a focus on people. Since its establishment and acting with a long-term strategic horizon, it has proven that it attaches great importance to education and research, placing particular emphasis on the interconnection of education with applied medicine.

Students of the Medical School of the European University Cyprus (EUC) with administrative executives of the Athens Medical Group in the presence of Professor of Anatomy and Dean of the European University Cyprus  Dr. Elizabeth Johnson

In this context, it has already concluded a Memorandum of Strategic Cooperation with the European University of Cyprus since December 2023. The European University of Cyprus is one of the most important academic and research centers in Southern Europe, and is a member of Galileo Global Education, the largest European University Organization, with a network of 54 institutions, on more than 80 campuses in 10 countries, in which more than 170,000 students study. It is worth noting that the European University of Cyprus is the only University in Cyprus that operates a branch of the Medical School in Frankfurt, Germany.

Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, Professor of Anatomy, Dean of the European University of Cyprus (EUC), Mr. George Zerdilas, General Manager, Athens Medical Group

Following the positive developments regarding the creation of the appropriate legal framework for the establishment and operation of foreign universities in Greece, the procedures are being accelerated for the activation of the largest pillar of the Athens Medical Group – European University of Cyprus partnership, which is the cooperation for the possible establishment of a Medical School in Greece.

The establishment of a Medical School in Greece is a vision that the Group’s President and founder, Dr. G. Apostolopoulos, reflecting both the values ​​and the unwavering commitment of the Athens Medical Group to be at the forefront of scientific, technological and research innovation, always being “ONE STEP AHEAD”.

Mr. George Zerdilas, General Manager, Athens Medical Group, Dr. Christos Liapis, Associate Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Athens, Director of the Vascular & Endovascular Surgery & President of the Scientific Council of the Athens Medical Center, Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, Professor of Anatomy, Dean of the European University Cyprus (EUC), Dr. Konstantinos M. Konstantinidis, Scientific Director, Director of General, Laparoscopic, Oncological and Robotic Surgery Clinic, Athens Medical Center, Adjunct Professor of Surgery, Ohio State University, USA Governor of the Greek Section of the American College of Surgeons, President of the World Scientific Society of Robotic Surgery (CRSA), Clinical Professor of Surgery of the European University Cyprus (EUC), Full Member of the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Haris Pittaros, MD PhD, Specialist Pathologist, Director of Medical Service, Director of Internal Medicine Clinic, Athens Medical Center, Mr. Georgios Boutsioukos, Management Consultant, Athens Medical Group

This strategic partnership has many pillars, such as the practical training of Medical students in the high-tech and staffed with leading scientists hospitals of the Group in Athens and Thessaloniki.

Students of the Medical School of the European University Cyprus (EUC), Ms. Fotini Ofidou, Financial Director, Deputy General Director of the Inter-Balkan Medical Center of Thessaloniki (IBMS), Ms. Fani Athanasiadou-Piperopoulou,Fani Athanasiadou – Piperopoulou, Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the Pediatric Clinic and Scientific Director of (IDTH), Mr. Pavlos Nikolaidis, President of the Scientific Council, Pathologist-Infectious Diseases Specialist Professor Emeritus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Director of the Pathology-Infectious Diseases Department of (IDTH)

Within the framework of the collaboration of the Medical Group with the European University of Cyprus regarding the practical training of Medical students, on Monday, February 12, 2024, the Group welcomed the second series of students to Greece, accompanied by the Dean of the European University of Cyprus, Elizabeth Johnson. During the spring semester, a total of (51) students will practice at the Group’s Hospitals in Athens and Thessaloniki, with the participation of (60) clinical instructors.