Sophia E. Schiza is a Professor of Pulmonology and Sleep Disorders at the School of Health Sciences, and Vice Rector for Administrative Affairs and Student Welfare at the University of Crete.
She is the Scientific Director of the Sleep Disorders Research Laboratory, Pulmonology Department, School of Health Sciences, University of Crete (2009-present).
She has completed specialized training in Sleep Disorders: a) at the Center for Sleep and Chronobiology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as a Clinical Research Fellow (1999-2001), b) at the HP Center for Sleep and Physiology, Grenoble, France: July-September 2014, c) at the Sleep Disorders Center, Gothenburg, Sweden: July-September 2018.
Education
Research Interests
Prof Schiza, has authored more than 165 peer-reviewed articles (h-index 39, >3700citations) on her main research interests in SBD, IPF and OSA, COPD Overlap Syndrome. She is one of the Editors of the ERS Sleep Handbook (published in 2023), Field Editor of Sleep Medicine.She has also an increasing role in the generation of guidelines and TaskForce statements within ERS and in collaboration with ESRS and ATS and in the development of a European registry for Home PaP/NIV in patients with Sleep Breathing Disorders and neuromuscular diseases in collaboration with Assembly 2, which resulted in am ERS funded Clinical Research Collaboration starting from March 2024. Additionally she is part of 2 European Union funded Research Projects: a): Digital literacy enables up to date Sleep Medicine in inclusive health care (-esleep-dHealth), started in 2023 for 3 years, b) Sleep Revolution: a new way to diagnose and treat patients with suspected Obstructive Sleep Apnea, started in 2021 for 5 years.
Memberships
▪ Chair of ERS Group 4.01 Sleep and Control of Breathing (2018–2020), Secretary of ERS Assembly 4 Sleep Disordered Breathing (2021–2023), Head of ERS Assembly 4 (2023–2025) (ERS Assembly 4 has 1,800 members)
▪ Member of the 3-member Organizing Committee of HERMES (Harmonised Education in Respiratory Medicine for European Specialists) (2018–present), chair of the 7-member Organizing Committee of the ERS Sleep Training Committee (2018–present), Vice Chair of the 7-member Organizing Committee of the Sleep & Breathing Congress (2018–present), member of the ERS Educational Committee (2019–2023),member of the ERS Guideline Committee (2020–2023), member of the Sleep Medicine Summer School Committee of the European Sleep Foundation (2022–present)
▪ Permanent member of the European Multi-Center Long-Term Observational Cohort: European Sleep Apnea Database (ESADA) (19 Sleep Laboratories across Europe selected after evaluation) (2014–present)
