Hojka Gregoric Kumperscak

Assoc. Prof. Hojka Gregorič Kumperščak, MD, Ph.D., was born in Maribor, Slovenia in 1970. She finished the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1996. She trained in child and adolescent psychiatry in Slovenia and abroad (Italy, UK, Germany, and Switzerland). She has served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, Slovenia, since January 2017, and has been head of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit, University Clinical Center, Maribor, since 2008. She is the president of the Slovenian Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is also the national coordinator–training director for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Slovenia and secretary of the Child and Adolescent section of the Union European Medical Specialists (UEMS-CAP). She is a member of the editorial board for the World Psychiatric Association’s journal, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Her clinical work is mainly with adolescents with personality and psychotic disorders. Her research work focuses on the genetics of developmental disorders including ADHD and early-onset schizophrenia. Dr. Kumperščak is an adolescent identity treatment psychotherapist and trainer. She has written many scientific articles and book chapters on different CAP topics.