Mojca Matičič, MD, PhD is Head of the Viral Hepatitis Unit at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Febrile Illnesses, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, and Head of the Outpatient STI Service at the same University Medical Centre. Besides, she is Professor in the field of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology at the Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She obtained her Medical Degree from the University of Ljubljana where she also received her speciality in Internal Medicine as well as Infectious Diseases. Prof. Matičič completed her MD thesis on HIV/aids and her PhD thesis on hepatitis C at the University of Ljubljana. She undertook her post doctoral training at the Middlesex Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital in London, UK.
Prof. Matičič is an active member of the EASL (former member of the Policy and Public Health Committee, PPHC), ESCMID Global (member of the Executive Committee of the ESCMID Study Group for Viral hepatitis, ESGVH), WHO ECAC (an expert of the Working group at the European Code Against Cancer), VHPB (an adviser at the Viral Hepatitis Prevention Board), C-EHRN (an expert of the Study Group for HCV, Correlation-European Harm Reduction network). Her main focus are clinical and public health aspects, teaching and research in various areas of viral infections, primarily viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections and HIV/aids. She leads the multidisciplinary national expert group for the management of viral hepatitis (the National Viral Hepatitis Expert Group) in Slovenia and is an active member of the HIV/AIDS Committee at the Slovene Ministry of Health. She co-authored the National consensus guidelines for the management of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C in Slovenia. She is also a co-author of the national guidelines for the management of hepatitis C in PWID and co-organises annual interdisciplinary national conferences on viral hepatitis in drug addicts (since 2006). She has published over 400 papers in national and international journals and actively participates or organises the national and international scientific meetings.
