Pafos Municipality honours five distinguished citizens with the Aphrodite 2022 Awards, who, with their multifaceted activity and their rich contribution, have distinguished themselves both abroad and in our country at a ceremony to be held in the presence of the President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades on Friday 18 March at 7 o'clock.00 pm,
According to an announcement by the Municipality of Paphos, the "Aphrodite Grand Prize" will be awarded to the Professor of Surgery Dimitris Dimitriadis, who lives in the USA, and the businessman expatriate Loukas Puroulis, who lives in South Africa. The Aphrodite Prize is awarded to the philologist and writer Angeliki Nikolaidou-Smyrli, the physician and academic Stathis Filippou, who lives in Germany, and the philologist, educator and writer George Hadjikostis.
Their brief biographies are also listed. He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Athens in 1976 and obtained his specialty in Surgery in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was awarded a Doctor of Medicine in 1985. In the 1991-1992 academic year he was elected Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, and in 1993 he was elected Professor of Surgery at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.[BR] In 2004, in close collaboration with the United States Navy, he established the United States Navy Trauma Training Program, the primary Navy trauma training facility in the country. In the field of Research, he published more than 720 scientific papers, making him the most published trauma surgeon in the United States
Loukas Puroulis was born in Lysos in 1938. He studied mining and metallurgical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, from which he graduated with honors. During his studies he worked in Germany and Sweden. In 1962 he took his first professional steps at the copper mine in Kalavaso. During the difficult period of intercommunal riots, he vigorously defended the Greek ownership of the mines despite the aggressive attitude of the Turks. In 1964 she emigrated to South Africa, where she was successfully employed by the Johannesburg-based international giant Anglo American Plc.
Angeliki Nikolaidou-Smyrli was born in Paphos in 1938 and graduated from the Greek Gymnasium of Paphos, where she was a classmate of Evagoras Pallikaridis. As a student, she was a member of EOKA. In 1961 she received a degree from the Faculty of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. After completing her studies, she returned to Paphos and served as a philologist in secondary schools. After the invasion, she returned to Athens where she worked as a teacher until 1986. She has a rich literary oeuvre consisting of testimonies, memories and short stories, plays and historical novels. Her works "In the time of struggle. Memories from Paphos in 1953-56', 'Without orientation. Cyprus: The uncertain years 1960-1967", "The Mother of the Missing & other short stories", "Evagoras - The Dilemma - Barnabas and Paul", "The Return of Agapioras", "Galatea and Pygmalion", "The Notebooks of Sophia", "We are left like sheep without pasture in the campion", "Report on Nicholas Theseus", "The Refutation", which was translated into Turkish and "Theodulus Limited".
Stathis Philippou was born in Paphos in 1959. In 1984 he obtained a degree in Medicine from RWTH Aachen University. Between 1985-1990 he obtained a specialization in Histopathology and Cytology and conducted research work at Ruhr University Bochum. From 1990 to 1998 he worked as a Supervisor of Histopathology and Assistant Professor at the same University. In 1998 he founded the Institute of Histopathology and Cytology at the Augusta Academic Hospital in Bochum, of which he is still the owner and director. Since 2005 he has held the Chair of Pathological Anatomy and Histopathology at the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Witten/Herdecke in North Rhine-Westphalia, and since 2021 he has been the owner and director of a medical service centre for Histopathology and Cytology in "Bochum", as well as a founding member of the Oncological Protestant Centre Bochum - Herne. The focus of his scientific research activities was and remains the lungs and their function.
George Hadjicostis was born in 1936 in Kato Paphos. He graduated in 1953 from the Greek Gymnasium of Paphos and studied philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he received his degree in 1958. During his studies he was a member of the Council of the National Student Union of Cypriots (E.F.E.K.) and took an active part in all activities related to the liberation struggle of Cyprus. In 1970-71 he undertook postgraduate studies in education at the University of Nottingham. From 1958 to 1996 he served in secondary schools in Cyprus, in almost all provinces, as a teacher, headmaster and headmaster. He was a member of the Boards of Directors of educational organizations, intellectual associations and scientific societies in Cyprus.
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