Mateja Lasic

Mateja Lasič simultaneously graduated with honors at the Grammar School Bežigrad and Secondary Music and Ballet School in Ljubljana. She pursued parallel degrees at the Faculty of Medicine and the Academy of Music in Ljubljana under the mentorship of the renowned pianist Prof. Dubravka Tomšič-Srebotnjak. During her studies, she received the Prof. Janez Plečnik Diploma for outstanding academic achievements and a special recognition from the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana for her excellent performance. She was a recipient of the Zois Scholarship and Scholarship of the Municipality of Ljubljana.

Upon completing her studies, she continued with her residency in gynecology and obstetrics at the Division of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana, obtaining her national board exam cum laude in 2020. During her residency, she was a recipient of the EBCOG scholarship program, which she completed at the University Hospital Leuven in Belgium under the mentorship of Prof. Dirk Timmerman and Prof. Wouter Froyman. As a resident, she was the President of the Slovenian Association of Trainees in Obstetrics and Gynecology (SATOG) and a member of the Expert Council for Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Slovenian Medical Society.

Currently, she is working at the Department of Gynecology at the University Medical Center Ljubljana. She is a member of the expert group for gynecology in the National Cervical Cancer Screening Programme and Registry ZORA, an assistant at the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana and a PhD student in clinical field of Biomedicine at the University of Ljubljana.

In addition to her training at home institution, she has been upgrading her skills in gynecological surgery and expert gynecological ultrasound at numerous European centers and international congresses (Leuven, Stockholm, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Prague, Berlin, Athens, Strasbourg). During her student and residency years, she has been also improving her surgical knowledge and skills under the mentorship of Prof. Uroš Ahčan.

Mateja believes in the power of combining art and science. Already during her studies at the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana, Mateja united music and medicine as the event manager and artistic director of medical students' concerts. In collaboration with composer Uršula Jašovec, several musical pieces were specially created and adapted for larger musical ensembles for these events, including a notable charity concert of medical students at the Linhart Hall of Cankarjev Dom titled "Hearing for Africa." With a creative approach, she also merged surgery and art in projects with surgeon Prof. Uroš Ahčan.

She performed multiple times with the doctor's orchestra Camerata medica and appeared at the Gallus Hall of Cankarjev Dom for the 100th anniversary concert of the Faculty of Medicine Ljubljana and the 50th anniversary concert of the Gynecological Clinic Ljubljana. As part of the 30th anniversary celebration of the Ljubljana Maternity Hospital, Mateja created a video-musical story of the maternity hospital titled "Birth."

During her piano studies, she participated in numerous piano competitions, international seminars and piano masterclasses, performed in solo concerts, chamber ensembles and orchestras both in Slovenia and abroad.