Prof. Dr. Paraskevi Katsaounou is an Assistant Professor of Pulmonary Medicine at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine. She has her Ph.D. on oxidative stress effects on the Human respiratory System and a post-Doc at NHLI at the Imperial College of London. She has worked in various capacities as Chair of Smoking Cessation and Public Health of the Hellenic Thoracic Society (HTS) for six years, Chair of Smoking Cessation and Health Education of the European Respiratory Society for three years (ERS), Member of the Tobacco Control Committee of ERS, consultant experts to the Greek MoH on Tobacco control issues—driving policy standards on tobacco control- and currently Chair of Respiratory Infections of HTS. As a seasoned smoking Cessation trainer for HTS, ERS, and WHO with a Mayo Clinic Tobacco Treatment Specialist Certification, she is the coordinator of the Train The Trainer (TTT) Project of WHO-ERS.