Vlasta Oršić Frič, MD, was born in Osijek, Croatia, and she received her medical degree at the Faculty of Medicine of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. She completed her residency in Gastroenterology at University Hospital Centre Osijek in Osijek, Croatia, where she is currently working as a gastroenterologist at the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Her area of interest is clinical nutrition and inflammatory bowel diseases, and she has great experience as an investigator in numerous clinical trials for ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. She is also a teaching assistant at the Department of Internal Medicine and History of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Osijek, where she is currently working on her PhD thesis in the field of inflammatory bowel diseases. Dr. Oršić Frič is an active member of international professional societies such as ECCO, ESPEN and ESGE, and she has presented her work at numerous international conferences.