Prof. VEDRAN STEFANOVIC is a professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Fetal Medicine at Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fetomaternal Medical Center, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Finland. He obtained M.D. and P.D degrees from Medical Faculty, University of Zagreb, Croatia and further degrees in obstetrics, gynecology and fetal medicine at University of Helsinki, Finland. He was granted a professorship at University of Helsinki in 2009.

Professor Stefanovic is involved in pre- and postgraduate education and is also Finnish national supervisor for the fetal medicine subspeciality.

He has a large international network and is active in numerous international societies (e.g. co-founder of International Society for Placenta Accreta Spectrum https://is-pas.org/home.html  and Nordic Fetal Therapy Alliance https://www.nnfm.org/nordfetal/. He was elected for the vice-president of the Educational Committee of the International Academy of Perinatal Medicine – IAPM https://iaperinatalmedicine.org/

He has authored 202 publications, most of which are original scientific papers in English (also publications in NEJM ,Cell and Lancet), this includes book chapters and systematic reviews and extensive publication activity in Finnish and Swedish. His H-index is 36 as February 2025.

Prof. Stefanovic was a supervisor of seven PhD thesis and 29 master thesis. He was invited speaker at 60 international conferences during past ten years . The experience as a lecturer at undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as at scientific meetings and workshops has helped him to achieve the ability to translate scientific matters to different layers of audience in a practical manner. He is a visiting professor at Medical School, University of Split, Croatia.

The main scientific interest of prof. Stefanovic is prenatal diagnostics , invasive fetal therapy and has research interest activities in maternal and fetal medicine in low-income countries. Prof. Stefanovic is editorial board member of the two major international journals, and peer reviewer for 20 international journals. He is fluent in Croatian, Finnish, English, Swedish and Italian with professional working proficiency in Spanish and Portuguese.