MARIA MALLIAROU is a Professor of Occupational
Health Nursing, in the Nursing Faculty of the University of Thessaly, Greece.
She is a Director of the Laboratory of Education and Research of Trauma Care
and Patient Safety. She is a member of the Ethics Committee of the University
of Thessaly and the Erasmus Academic Coordinator of the Nursing Department of
the University of Thessaly. She is a graduate of the Military Nursing Academy.
She holds a Master's Degree (MSc) in "Health Informatics" from the
Department of Nursing of EKPA and in the "Health Services Management"
of the Cyprus Open University. She holds a PhD from the Nursing Department of
EKPA. She has extensive clinical experience as she has worked for over 25 years
in different clinical settings in Military Hospitals and positions
such as Head Nurse of the Operating Room, Head Nurse of the Emergency
department, etc. She has extensive experience in Health and Safety and human
resource management as Head of the Health and Safety Departments of Military
Hospitals. Since 2014, she has been an Adjunct Professor of the Postgraduate
Programme “Health Services Management” at the Hellenic Open University. She has
supervised more than 50 diploma theses of students in the Postgraduate
Programme “Mental Health” and the Postgraduate Programme “Primary Health Care”
of the University of Thessaly but also at the Postgraduate Programme “Health
Services Management” of the Hellenic Open University.