Assoc. Prof. Špela Smrkolj, MD, PhD, works at the Clinical Department of Gynecology at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana and completed her specialist examination with distinction in 2007. On March 6, 2006, at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, she successfully defending her doctoral thesis entitled “Assessment of predictive factors in the planning of cervical cancer treatment”. In July 2009, she was awarded the “FIGO/Chien-Tien Hsu Fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology” by the FIGO for further training at the University of Gynecology and Oncology Unit at Charles University in Prague under the mentorship of Prof. dr. David Cibula. From 2015 to 2018, she was Assistant to the UMCL Medical Director for Quality, and since 2018 she has been Assistant to the UMCL Medical Director for Education. Since 2010 she has been employed at the University of Lju- bljana, Faculty of Medicine, and since 2019 she has been the Head of Chair for Gynecology and Obstetrics. She has been the president of the Association for Gynecological Oncology, Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology of the Slovenian Medical Association (ZGO-SZD) since 2012.