Liene Smane, Dr. med., is an assistant professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the Riga Stradins University (Riga, Latvia). The main focus of her research is on paediatric infectious diseases. She is also a paediatrician and chief of the Division of Paediatric Infectious Diseases at Children's Clinical University Hospital (Riga, Latvia). She was a Leding Expert State Research programme "BIOMEDICINE", Project No. 5.6.2. "Research on acute and chronic diseases in a wide age range children to develop diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms to reduce mortality, prolong survival and improve quality of life".