Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)

ISPM Team

Glisic Marija, PD, MD, PhD

Head of Research Group

Research - Spinal Cord Injury, Lifestyle and Behaviour, Cardiometabolic Health

Phone
+41 31 684 34 29
E-Mail
marija.glisic@unibe.ch
Office
414
Postal Address
Mittelstrasse 43, 3012 Bern

Field of work

  • Build up a research group at the interface of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) research and epidemiology
  • Establish and implement integral collaborative research between ISPM and the Swiss Paraplegic Research (SPF)

Curriculum Vitae

since August 2019 at the ISPM

During her PhD studies in Clinical Epidemiology at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Dr. Marija Glisic, a medical doctor with Master degree in Health Sciences worked on cardiometabolic health, with particular interests on the role of nutrition, sex hormones, epigenetics, omics data and sex differences in improving prevention and precise care in cardiometabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Currently, she is employed at Swiss Paraplegic Research and Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) at the University of Bern, where she leads a project focused on cardiometabolic health in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI).