She was born in Zagreb. In 1972, she graduated from the School of Medicine in Zagreb.In 1980 she completed her specialisation in internal medicine at the Department for Heart and Blood Vessel Diseases, Zagreb University Hospital Centre.
She continued cardiology training in Stockholm, Uppsala and Pisa. She was the first person in Croatia to introduce and conduct the stress echocardiography method (1992) and has published 56 scientific and academic papers, primarily in the field of cardiology. By 2001, she had been working as an internist cardiologist specialist and chief of the Polyclinic Section at the Department for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases and Rehabilitation in Zagreb. In 2002, she founded the Saint Nicholas Polyclinic for Cardiovascular Diseases and Prevention on KorÄula. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Physicians, the Croatian Cardiologic Association, European Cardiologic Association, European Association of Cardiac Decompensation (HFA), European Association for Echocardiography (EAE), and the New York Academy of Sciences. She holds the Homeland Appreciation Memorial.