Stavrina Ilia is an Associate Professor in Pediatric Critical Care, School of Medicine, University of Crete (UoC). She is the scientific director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Director of the Postgraduate Program in Emergency and Intensive Care in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults, School of Medicine, UoC. She received her medical degree from the Kapodistrian University of Athens and her PhD from the University of Crete. She has specialized in Pediatrics at hospitals in the United Kingdom and Greece, and also sub-specialized in pediatric critical care at the University Hospital of Heraklion in Greece and the Netherlands (University Medical Center Groningen).

Since the beginning of her academic career, she has been dedicated to educating young doctors and nurses, at undergraduate but mainly at postgraduate level, in the field of critically ill children. She is mainly active in providing high-level specialized health services to pediatric patients and invests in innovative clinical research in the field of pediatric intensive care, specifically in sepsis, mechanical ventilation, nutrition, and metabolism in critically ill patients. Her work is internationally recognized, as evidenced by numerous publications, book chapters, and collaborations with international research centers.