Vasiliki Eirini Chatzea

Ms. Vasiliki Eirini Chatzea

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Heraklion, Greece
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Healthcare manager, PHD(c) and experienced researcher
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Biography

Vasiliki Eirini (Valeria) Chatzea graduated from the Department of Health and Welfare Management, Technological Educational Institute of Athens. Ms. Chatzea also holds a master's degree in Public Health and Health Care Management, specialized in Epidemiology, from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete (UoC), and a master's in "Management and Digital Transformation" awarded by the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU). Currently, she is a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of HMU; at the same time, she attends a bachelor's program in "Management Science and Technology" offered by HMU. During the pandemic, she served as deputy director at a Greek public hospital (2020-2021). She has worked in several research programs in the field of Public Health as a research associate of the Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, UoC, while presently she is working as a research associate of the NILE Lab at HMU with a focus on digital education and serious games. She is an experienced scientific writer with over 50 publications (h-index 16, 816 citations), an editor, a review editor, and a reviewer in selected scientific journals.

Affiliations

Hellenic Mediterranean University

Heraklion, Greece

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Honors and Awards

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Outstanding paper award

10th International Conference on Educational Technologies · Mar 2025

“Designing an online training module to develop virtual and blended international modalities in higher education”

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Best oral presentation award (1st place)

15th Panhellenic Congress on Management, Economics and Health · Dec 2019

"Impact of the primary healthcare research in the development of health policies; what have we learned and what is recommended"

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Best research paper award (1st place)

14th Panhellenic Congress on Management, Economics and Health · Dec 2018

"Transcribing experiences of research and development projects into tools to improve the quality of Primary Health Care Services"

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Best oral presentation (1st place)

6th Panhellenic Forum of Public Health and Social Medicine · Nov 2017

"Post traumatic stress disorder among rescuers during refugee crisis in Greece"

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"Odysseas Kaligiannis" award for best scientific research (1st place)

18th Pancretan Medical Conference · Nov 2016

"Cancer geo-epidemiology in Crete: current situation and forecast of the future variation"

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Best research award (1st place)

27th Hellenic National Congress of Perioperative Nursing · Oct 2016

"Prediction model of duration of stay and hospitalization cost among patients that undergo cholocystectomy or hernia surgery"

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Best research award (2nd place)

26th Hellenic National Congress of Perioperative Nursing · Sep 2015

"Trust and performance among surgery personnel, during the period of austerity"

Experience

Research or Laboratory Scientist

Hellenic Mediterranean University, Heraklion, Greece

01 Nov 2021 - present