Specialist in paediatrics - child endocrinologist
Biography
Prof. dr sci.med. Nevena D. Folić, specialist in paediatrics, Head of the Endocrinology Department of the Paediatric Clinic of the Clinical Centre Kragujevac and assistant professor at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Kragujevac in the narrower scientific field of Paediatrics, was born in 1979 in Kragujevac.
She completed primary school and the natural sciences and mathematics programme at the First Kragujevac Gymnasium with excellent grades, receiving the Vuk diploma. She graduated from the Medical Faculty of the University of Kragujevac in 2004 with an average grade of 9.74. During her undergraduate studies, she received several awards from the Medical Faculty and the University of Kragujevac.
From January 2006 to November 2008, worked at the Kragujevac Health Centre, and since November 2008, employed at the Paediatrics Clinic of the Clinical Centre Kragujevac.
Specialisation in the field of Paediatrics was completed in 2015 at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Kragujevac with excellent success.
In the domain of further specialist training in the field of Endocrinology, part of the subspecialist internship was completed at reference institutions in Belgrade, such as the University Children's Clinic, the Institute for Maternal and Child Health Protection "Dr Vukan Čupić", and the Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolic Diseases of the Clinical Centre of Serbia.
Subspecialisation in the field of Endocrinology was successfully completed in February 2019.
Actively engaged in ultrasound diagnostics of the thyroid gland, and completed education in 2014 at the University Children's Clinic in Belgrade.
She completed doctoral academic studies at the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Kragujevac in 2013, defending her doctoral dissertation titled: „Analysis of risk factors for the development of metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents“, thereby acquiring the scientific title Doctor of Medical Sciences.
She has been employed at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, since 2015: initially as a teaching associate, from 2016 as an assistant, and since September 2019 as an Associate Professor in the narrower scientific field of Paediatrics.
Since February 2024, in the rank of Associate Professor for the narrow scientific field of Paediatrics.
As an invited lecturer, moderator, and member of organisational and scientific committees, she participated in numerous domestic and international congresses in the field of paediatric endocrinology. She is an author or co-author of chapters in several textbooks for regular and postgraduate education, as well as numerous papers published in full in national and international journals, or those presented at international and domestic scientific and professional gatherings published as abstracts. She is a participant in the implementation of one scientific junior project.
Married and mother of two children.