Dr. Athanasia Pataka is an Associate Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Sleep Disorders at the School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She received her Ph.D. in the Department of Pneumonology of G. Papanikolaou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the thesis entitled “Energy cost of ventilation in COPD patients”. She was a Research Fellow in the Department of Sleep Medicine in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Scotland to specialise in Sleep Disorders in 2008–2009.