Zorana Maravic
CEO
A part of Europacolon and now DiCE since 2012, Zorana has always worked closely with our Full Members and Associate Members. With grace, poise and calm, she is working to help Members’ organisations and DiCE grow.
As CEO, Zorana continues her commitment to DiCE, taking on the organisation’s management and ensuring the delivery of its missions and goals. In her past role as Director of Operations, she was responsible for coordinating and supporting Member groups and strengthening the network through establishing relationships with new organisations. During this she has proven her capacity to deliver successfully. Key projects have included:
- A Survey on the Unmet Needs of Patients Living with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer (mCRC). She recruited more than 800 patients and had the results under her authorship published widely
- DiCE events: Masterclass events – an educational annual meeting for Member groups
- Awareness campaigns including European Colorectal Cancer Awareness Campaigns (ECCAM)
- Pharmaceutical industry and independent consortia projects
- Developing patient support materials with the Patient Advisory Committee (PAC)
Zorana also acts as a public speaker on patient support, biosimilars and CRC screening topics. From 2016 until 2018, Zorana served as a Board Member of EuropaColon.
Before working in the Not-For-Profit sector, Zorana worked for 10 years in the pharmaceutical industry, primarily in sales and marketing of innovative oncology drugs and oncology clinical trials.
She holds a degree in molecular biology from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. In 2017, she gained an executive MBA in health management at the University of Sheffield, UK.
