Associate Professor Hojka Gregoric Kumperscak, MD, PhD was trained in child and adolescent psychiatry in Slovenia and abroad (Italy, UK, Germany and Switzerland). She has held the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor in Slovenia, since January 2017, and has been Head of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit, University Clinical Center in Maribor since 2008. She is President of the Slovenian Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is a member of the editorial board for the journal of the World Psychiatric Association, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (WPA-CAP).

Her clinical work is mainly with adolescents with personality and psychotic disorders. The research work is focused in genetic of developmental disorders including ADHD and early onset schizophrenia. She is an Adolescent Identity Treatment psychotherapist and trainer.  She has written many scientific articles and book chapters on different child and adolescent psychiatry topics.