Marija Zečević was born in 1985 in Valjevo, the Republic of Serbia. She obtained the title of doctor of medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Belgrade, in March 2011. She enrolled in specialist studies in physical medicine and rehabilitation in December 2019. She works as a doctor of medicine at the Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases “Dedinje”. The area of subspecialty she is interested in is early cardiovascular rehabilitation. She is fluent in English.