Andreas Xanthos
microbiologist.
Microbiology
Athens
Greece
Biography
Andreas Xanthos is a Greek medical doctor and politician who is currently the Minister of Health in the Second Tsipras Cabinet and a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Rethymno on Crete. He previously served as an Alternate Minister of Health in the First Tsipras Cabinet and is a member of the Central Committee of Syriza.Xanthos graduated from the medical school of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Research Interest
Xanthos specialises in microbiology and worked as a national health service doctor at the health centres in Peramaand in Rethymno. He was, for several years, chairman of the doctors' union in Rethymno and also a member of the General Council of the Federation of Greek Hospital Doctors (OENGE) and the General Assembly of the Panhellenic Medical Association (PIS).[1] Xanthos took an active role in the establishment of a Voluntary Social Solidarity Clinic in Rethymno in 200.
