Dr Adamantia Liapikou is a Pulmonologist, working as a consultant in the 6th Respiratory Department of Sotiria Chest Diseases Hospital in Athens and in charge of the Smoking Cessation Program of Sotiria Hospital. Dr Liapikou graduate of the Medical School of University of Ioannina and specialized in Respiratory Medicine at the 1th Respiratory Clinic of University of Athens, at Sotiria Hospital. During the period 2002-2008 she had worked as Research Fellow at Evangelismos Hospital in Athens and 2007-2008 at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona with a long term research fellowship from ERS. In 2013 she has worked as a post-Doc researcher in the ICU of Hospital Clinic for 3 months, investigating Ventilator Associated Pneumonia. She received her PhD in 2012 from the University of Barcelona in the field of Respiratory Infections and in 2016 her Master in Oncology of Thorax from the University of Athens. She is also responsible for the Smoking Cessation Clinic of Sotiria Hospital. Adamantia has received research fellowships from ERS, Thorax Foundation and Hellenic Thoracic Society and she has published more than 50 publications and 10 book chapters. She is coordinator for the group of Respiratory Infections of Hellenic Thoracic Society. She is a member of group experts in Respiratory Infections of ERS and ESCMID’s also. She is also a reviewer of many journals of Respiratory Medicine, as Respiratory Care, Respirology, BMJ, Chest & ERJ.