The team behind CareAcross has deep expertise in business, technology and medicine. The CareAcross team is dedicated to confront the disease that affects millions of people worldwide, Cancer.
Thanos Kosmidis (Co-Founder - Chief Executive Officer)
Mr Kosmidis has extensive experience in leading technology and business operations at large corporations in the USA and Europe. Through positions of increasing responsibility, he has led diverse teams in the fields of architecture & eServices, technology management, and commercial strategy.
Mr Kosmidis holds an M.Eng. in Computing from Imperial College (London, UK), an M.S. in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), and has been an Advanced Study Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston, MA, USA).
He has served as an Assembly member of the European Commission's Cancer Mission, as well as an expert in the European Commission's Initiative on Breast Cancer.
Paris Kosmidis, MD (Co-Founder - Chief Medical Officer)
Dr Kosmidis has more than 30 years’ experience as an oncologist at large medical institutions in the USA and Europe. He is American Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, as well as European Board-certified in Medical Oncology, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Colorado.
Dr Kosmidis is a past President of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO), having served at the head of the organization for 2004 & 2005, and was the President of the ESMO Foundation until 2007. He was named an ESMO Fellow in 2022.
He is the author or co-author of hundreds of publications featured in leading international oncology journals, and has written and contributed to numerous books in topics like cancer research and clinical practice. Dr Kosmidis has been awarded by the Academy of Athens twice.
Takis Vidalis, PhD (Legal Counsel)
Dr Vidalis is an acknowledged expert in bioethics, serving on the European Commission as an Expert on Ethics and Law since 2005. He is the author and co-author of 6 books and 40 articles and papers on law in medicine, ethics, biobanks, patient rights and new technologies.
Dr Vidalis teaches “Biolaw” at the University of Crete (Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program in Bioethics) since 2003, and is the Director of the Medical Law and Bioethics Department at the Athens Law Firm.