Maja Filipović was born in 1974 in Tuzla, B&H. She obtained the title of doctor of medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Belgrade in 1999. She specialized in internal medicine in 2005. She is currently finishing her doctoral and subspecialist studies at the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Belgrade. She works at the Cardiology Clinic of the Institute. She attended professional trainings at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (ICU) and the Landesklinikum Baden, Austria. She is a member of the European Society of Cardiology as well as the Cardiology Society of Serbia. She is fluent in English.