Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nikola Slijepcevic, MD, PhD, FEBS is a leading endocrine surgeon with decades of experience in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of thyroid and parathyroid disorders with several thousand procedures performed or assisted throughout his career. He serves as Head of the First Surgical Department at the Clinic for Endocrine Surgery, University Clinical Centre of Serbia — the only tertiary academic institution in the region exclusively dedicated to endocrine surgery. Dr Slijepcevic is a certified general surgeon with a subspecialty in endocrine surgery. He holds a PhD in medical sciences and is an Associate Professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery. He completed advanced training in leading institutions such as Hammersmith and Cromwell Hospitals (London, UK), and UCSF Medical Centre and Mount Zion Hospital (San Francisco, USA). He is a Fellow of the European Board of Surgery (FEBS) in Neck Endocrine Surgery, and serves as Serbia’s national delegate to the General Assembly of the European Society of Endocrine Surgeons (ESES). Dr Slijepčević has authored over 170 scientific publications, including 47 articles in JCR-indexed journals, with a cumulative impact factor exceeding 240 and an h-index of 14. He is also author or co-author of six textbooks in the fields of general and endocrine surgery.