I. Butorac Ahel works in Department of Endocrinology in Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka, Croatia. She is a graduate of Faculty of Medicine University of Rijeka (1998). She obtained master of science at University of Rijeka (2011). Emergency and intensive care was the field of her interest for many years; she completed many international courses (Advanced Life Support (ALS), Advanced Pediatric Life Support (APLS), International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) and was an instructor in ALS and ITLS. Her current research interest is pediatric endocrinology. She actively participated in many domestic and international congresses and published articles in different fields of pediatrics. She had been an active member in the Central European project about celiac disease.