I obtained MD and PhD degrees at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana and MA degree at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Since 2014 I work as a staff metabolic pediatrician at the Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, UMC - University Children’s Hospital Ljubljana, Slovenia. From 2015 I am an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. I also serve as a member of National Medical Ethics Committee of Slovenia. My main clinical and research interests include familial hypercholesterolemia, rare and secondary dyslipidemias, genetic disorders and screening programs in neonatology/pediatrics. Altogether, I (co)authored over 100 publications. I am leading the Slovenian program of universal familial hypercholesterolemia screening (which is performed nation-widely in 5-year old children), including the program of modern NGS diagnostics of primary dyslipidemias at the UMC Ljubljana. I am also coordinating the pediatric part of the Slovenian National registry of familial hypercholesterolemia and rare dyslipidemias and serves as a National lead investigator at the EAS FHSC. I am also coordinator of expanding newborn screening in Slovenia (in 2018, next in 2021) and serve as an expert member of two European networks for rare diseases – MetabERN and EndoERN (Adrenals). Currently I am a 2020 WHF Emerging Leader and a Fulbright Scholar (2020/2021).