Maria Avgoustidou is a pathologist - oncologist and a supervising doctor of supportive and palliative care services at the Multidisciplinary Cancer Care (MCC) since 2021.

She completed her medical residency in gynecology/obstetrics at the University of Aachen and in pathology/clinical oncology/hematology at St. Lukas Klinik in Germany, where worked as a supervisor in the second Department of Clinical Pathology. She has received training in allogeneic bone marrow transplantation at the University of Düsseldorf. She has also worked in clinical oncology/hematology medical centers in Osnabrück, MVZ Arnsberg, and MVZ Hilden and obtained specialization in palliative care. In 2020, she returned to Greece and started working at Hygeia Hospital as a supervisor in the third Pathology/Clinical Oncology Clinic.

Maria Avgoustidou studied at the medical school of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Universität des Saarlandes Homburg in Germany. She is a member of the Multidisciplinary Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hämatologie und Onkologie and the Society of Oncological Pathologists of Greece. She has extensive clinical and research work.