Dr. María Luz Alonso-Alvarez

Mª Luz Alonso- Alvarez received her PhD in 2002 from the University of Valladolid ( Valladolid, Spain). She followed a training program in Respiratory Medicine at Hospital General Yagüe ( Burgos, Spain). She followed a educational stay in Sleep Medicine in 1998. She was Honor Professor Universidad of Valladolid from 2014. Member of research Net CIBERES Instituto de Salud Carlos III and Member of Spanish Sleep Network. Expert in Sleep Medicine (CEAMS). Dra. Alonso’s research interests a wide spectrum of Sleep disordered breathing and sleep problems in both adults and in children. In recent years, her main research has focused on sleep disordered breathing in children. Dra. Alonso was coordinator of the National Consensus for the Diagnosis and Treatment of OSAS in children in Spain (ArchBronc, 2011), and member of the European Task Force for the management of children with sleep disordered breathing (ERJ 2016, 2017). Dra. Alonso has participated as an Expert Advisor in Guidelines on Sleep Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence in Primary Care, of the Ministry of Health Social Policy and Equality. She has published more than 100 international peer-reviewed papers.