Dr Mirjana Šumarac-Dumanović is a full professor of internal medicine and endocrinology at Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, and a head of the Multidisciplinary Center for the Obesity Treatment, CEDMD, University Clinical Center of Serbia. She has extensive clinical experience in the treatment and investigation of obesity, diabetes mellitus and other metabolic diseases. She published 58 papers in the international peer-reviewed journals in the research area, which were cited 1136 times excluding self-citations (h-index = 17, Scopus) and written the chapters in 8 books. She was a PI of 5 clinical trials, an investigator of 5 national research projects, one research project at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, New York, USA, and was awarded for the clinical research on adipokine role in obesity (2008, Balkan Conference on Obesity). She has finished the Second EFES Postgraduate Clinical Endocrinology Course in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr Mirjana Šumarac-Dumanović is a lecturer at the Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade, has supervised 3 PhD theses, 1 master and many specialization theses.