# Marija Zdravković

Marija Zdravković (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Здравковић; 18 December 1973) is a Serbian medical doctor, administrator, and politician. She has been director of the hospital Bežanijska Kosa in Belgrade since 2014 and is currently serving her second term in Serbia's national assembly. Zdravković is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

## Early life and medical career

Zdravković was born in Belgrade, in the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine in 1998 with a 9.94 grade average, received a master's degree in cardiology in 2005, earned a Ph.D. in sports cardiology in 2010, and afterward completed a two-year post-doctoral studies program at the University of Zürich.
She was appointed as a clinical assistant at the Faculty of Medicine in 2012 and as an associate professor of internal medicine - cardiology in 2019. She became director of Bežanijska Kosa in September 2014. Zdravković is credited as being the first cardiologist in Serbia to introduce cardiomagnetic resonance into regular clinical practice.

## Politician

Zdravković led the SNS's electoral list for New Belgrade in the 2020 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won twenty-two out of forty-nine mandates. Aleksandar Šapić's Serbian Patriotic Alliance (SPAS) narrowly defeated the SNS in this election, and the Progressives did not initially participate in the local government. The SPAS merged into the Progressive Party in 2021.

### Parliamentarian and city assembly member

Zdraković received the sixth position on the SNS's Together We Can Do Everything list in the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election and the second position, following Šapić, on its list in the concurrent 2022 Belgrade City Assembly election. In both cases, her placement was tantamount to election; she was elected to the national assembly when the SNS alliance won 120 out of 250 seats and to the city assembly when it won forty-eight out of 110 seats.
She resigned from the city assembly on 11 June 2022 (i.e., the day that it convened) and from the national assembly on 25 October 2022. During her first national assembly term, she was a member of the health and family committee and the committee on the rights of the child and a deputy member of the labour committee and the environmental protection committee.
Zdravković appeared in the fourth position on the SNS's Serbia Must Not Stop list in the 2023 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected to a second term when the list won a majority victory with 129 seats. Once again, she is a member of the health and family committee and the committee on the rights of the child. She is also the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Germany and a member of the friendship groups with China, France, Italy and the Holy See, Malta, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
She was re-elected to the New Belgrade municipal assembly in the 2024 Serbian local elections after again receiving the lead position on the SNS coalition's list. The list won a narrow majority victory with twenty-five out of forty-nine seats.