Dr. Maria Tigka is a midwife in the delivery room at the Helena Venizelou Hospital in Athens, Greece. She received her BSc in Midwifery from the Technological Educational Institution of Athens in 2006 and afterward, her MSc with honors in “Research in Female Reproduction” from the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2012. She completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Midwifery at the University of West Attica. Her research interests are in the areas of maternal and infant health, breastfeeding, and pharmacology.