Dr. Nataša Ljubomirović (née Ceribašić) was born in Belgrade on May 13, 1965. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sarajevo in 1989, earning the title of Doctor of Medicine (valedictorian, with an average grade of 9.6), and also graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Sarajevo (average grade 9.8). She passed the specialist exam in psychiatry in 1999 with excellent marks.
She defended her master’s thesis titled “Psychological Consequences of War Stress in Adolescents” – in the field of social psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade in 1997. She was awarded a UK scholarship and completed education in child psychiatry at NHS Northampton, United Kingdom, focusing on group work with children and youth under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Kedar Dwivedi in 2001. From 2003 to 2008, she served as the project coordinator in mental health, working with vulnerable children, youth, and their families within the Doctors Without Borders Belgium (MSF Belgium) project. She defended her doctoral dissertation titled “Application of Social Group Work in the Local Community” on December 29, 2014, at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade. She was appointed as an assistant professor at the Academy for Human Development in 2017.
She obtained the academic title of research associate at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade on September 26, 2018.
From 2015 to 2023, she was an educator for healthcare professionals in the Mental Health Reform Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 2020, she became a mentor for doctors specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade.
She has been on the list of certified forensic experts in child and adolescent psychiatry since 2021, at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia.
Since 2021, she has been the head of the Child and Youth Clinic at the Institute of Mental Health in Belgrade, and the head of the Clinical Department for Children and Youth at the Institute of Mental Health in Belgrade.