Asimina Gaga

Asimina Gaga better known as Mina Gaga is a Greek pulmonologist and politician. She served as Alternate Minister for Health Services of Greece between 2021 and 2023, and previously served as president of the European Respiratory Society.

Career Gaga studied medicine at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she completed a PhD and continued her training on pulmonology in London.

She is a clinician and researcher specialising in asthma and lung cancer.

Personal life and family Her father, Christos Gaga, was a renowned and pioneering pulmonologist, who was honoured by having the Central Bronchology Laboratory at Sotiria Hospital named after him, whilst her mother, Nafsika Iasonidou, was well known within the Pontic Greek community. She is a descendant of victims of the Pontic Greek genocide.

Gaga have two children.