Dr. Stefanovic completed her Medical Degree and internal medicine residency at University of Ottawa, followed by fellowships in infectious diseases and medical microbiology at the University of British Columbia. She works as a medical microbiologist at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver.

She is Clinical Associate Professor and a Co-director of Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) Educational Certificate Program, accredited by UBC. Along with her Co-directors, she is working on revamping the Certificate Program to make it more widely available to students interested in pursing a career in a dynamic field of infection prevention and control. Dr. Stefanovic is also actively involved in lecturing medical microbiology and infectious disease fellows, supervising and mentoring medical trainees at different stages of their medical education and training. She sits on the Educational Strategic Planning Committee for Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC.

Among her current research interests is studying the shift in Shigella spp. epidemiology, species dominance, pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance patterns in downtown Vancouver. Her team is also working on characterizing toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans, a zoonotic pathogen increasingly isolated from human wounds in downtown Vancouver.