Maria Tsolia is currently Professor and Chair of Paediatrics and Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the Second Department of Paediatrics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), P. and A. Kyriakou Children’s Hospital.  Maria graduated from NKUA   “suma cum laude” and was trained in Paediatrics in the U.S.A.. She was then trained in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey and at Columbia University Medical Centre in New York.  She has been working at the Second Department of Paediatrics of NKUA at the P. and A. Kyriakou Children’s hospital for many years and she has been Chair of the Department since 2013. 

Maria Tsolia has served as Board member, Committee member and for two terms as Secretary of ESPID. She has been President of the Hellenic Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases. She is currently a member of the National Committee for Immunization Practices and also member of the National Strategic Advisory Group of Experts for the management of COVID-19. She has been member of the Board for certification in Pediatrics and in the subspecialty of Infectious Diseases. She has a special scientific interest in the epidemiology of vaccine preventable infectious diseases, respiratory infections, management of fever and tuberculosis. The Unit for Clinical Research in Infectious Diseases of the Second Department of Paediatrics at the NKUA participates in multi-center clinical trials of vaccines and antibiotics and also in several research networks. such as the PTBNET (Paediatric Tuberculosis network) and also ARPEC, the GARPEC – PENTA ID, the PED-MERMAIDS PENTA ID, RANIN-KIDS and Neod-Deco study. The center has been a member of the PERFORM consortium and now is also a member of the ongoing DIAMONDS project which aims to bring personalized medicine into routine use for the management of fever. These both are collaborative Horizon2020 projects supported by the EU.

Maria Tsolia has supervised 11 PhD students and 10 thesis projects. She co-chairs a 2-year Postgraduate NKUA Diploma in Paediatric Infectious Diseases established in 2017. She has been the author or a co-author of over 240 publications in international peer-review journals (SCI) and about 60 publications in the Greek language.