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ADRIANA VINCE,  full professor,  School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, specialist in  infectious diseases and cytology Head of the Department of  gastrointestinal infections, University Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Zagreb.  Chair of the Department of infectious deseases, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb. Head of the Croatian national reference center for diagnosis and treatment of viral hepatitis of the Ministry of Health. Secretary general of the Croatian Medical Association. Published 110 papers indexed in international data bases (58 in Current Contents, 12 WoS Core collection, 18 PubMed and  22 in Scopus), with 1,400 independent citations. Member of international professional societies UEMS-ID,

Anko Antabak, MD, PhD, associate professor, specialist in pediatric surgery, born on January 19, 1962,  in Tuzla, Croatian  nationality. Graduated from the School of Medicine  Zagreb in 1987. General practitioner   in Health Center Trnje 1987-1991.  Participant in the Homeland War (medical formation) 1991-1992. Resident in pediatric surgery (1992-1997), Department of surgery, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, afterwards employee  at the Division of pediatric surgery. Founder and head of the Day surgery, University Hospital Centre Zagreb (2008-2018). Postgraduate study in biology (Faculty of Science, Zagreb), MSc  in 1996, PhD in 2005 (School of Medicine, Zagreb). Member of several local and international professional

Professor Boris Brkljačić, MD, PhD Specialist in radiology, subspecialist in interventional radiology and ultrasound, full professor with tenure at the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, chairman of the Department of radiology, vice-dean for science. Head of the Department of diagnostic and interventional radiology, University Hospital Dubrava. Board of Directors, member (2017-2022), and president (2019-2020), European Society of Radiology, Vienna. Executive council member of ESR (2011-2017), Finance and Internal Affairs Chair (2011-2014), External Affairs and Communication Chair (2014-2017). Member of the Executive Board International Society for Strategic Studies in Radiology (2013-2019). Fellow, European Society of Urogenital Radiology. First vice-president of

Professor Božo Krušlin, MD, PhD SCHOOLING 1979 - 10/1984, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, MD 1989 – MSc, PMF Zagreb, 1994, PhD, School of Medicine, Zagreb 1989-1994 – specialization in pathological anatomy 1998 – assistant professor, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 2003 – associate professor 2009 – full professor, 2015 – full professor with tenure 2009 – scientific advisor EMPLOYMENT School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, since 1994 Department of pathology and cytology, Sisters of Mercy University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, since 1995, head of the Department since 2007 ACTIVITIES AT THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, ZAGREB Member of the

Branka Aukst Margetić, MD, PhD, assistant professor, scientific advisor, born on May 26, 1966, in Tuzla, Bosnia nad Herzegovina. In 1991 she graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb. In 2001 she was psychiatry resident in Neuropsychiatry hospital Dr. Ivan Barbot, in 2008 she completed subspecialization in biological psychiatry and education in several psychoterapeutic techniques. In 2006 she obtained MSc degree, and in 2010 PhD at the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb. From 2009 to 2017 she worked at the Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, and since 2017 she has been employed at the Sisters

Graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, in 1987. Obtained MSc degree in 1991, and PhD in 1997. Full professor since 2006. Served residency in internal medicine at the University Hospital Centre Rijeka. Since 2006 subspecialist in gastroenterology. Currently, director of the University Hospital Center Rijeka, head of the Department of internal medicine, and vice-chairman of the Department of internal medicine, School of Medicine Rijeka. First vice-president of the Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences, president of the Croatian society for obesity of the Croatian Medical Association, vice-president of the Society for quality improvement in healthcare of the CMA,

Assistant professor Dražen Pulanić, MD, PhD, specialist in internal medicine, subspecialist in hematology, scientific advisor, employed at the Division of hematology, Department of internal medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, and at the Department of internal medicine, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb. Assistant professor at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Medicine. Born in Zagreb, 1974. Graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 1999. MSc in 2003, Phd in 2006, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb. Research associate 2007, senior research associate 2010, scientific advisor since 2016. His scientific and professional interests are hereditary and

After graduating from Grammar school in Split, I was admitted to Split University School of medicine where I attended first two years after which I have moved to University of Zagreb to finish my studies in 2006. Mandatory one year junior doctor practice was finished at UHC Zagreb and after that I work as transplant coordinator in Ministry of health and also as doctor in Croatia health inssurance. From 2008 I started my residency in urology in Clinical hospital Dubrava. During those 5 years I was educated in domestic (UHC Zagreb, Clinical hospital Sestre milosrdnice and Clinical hospital Sv. Duh)

Ivan Bojanić, associate professor, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, orhopedic specialist, Head of the Division of arthroscopy and sports traumatology at the Department of orthopedics , University Hospital Centre Zagreb. Co-author of the book “Overuse injuries of the musculoskeletal system“ which was published in two editions (1993 and 2003) in the USA. He published over a hundred papers indexed in international data bases (63 in Current Contents, nine in Science Citation Index Exp and 43 in Medline&Scopus). His fields of scientific and professional interest are arthroscopic surgery of knee, ankle and elbow, and sports traumatology.

SCHOOLING Postgraduate studies: Allergology and clinical immunology, and Clinical pediatrics Specialty in pediatrics, subspecialty in intensive medicine Education in pediatric intensive care medicine in hospitals A. Gemelli and Bambino Gesu in Rome Advanced Paediatric Life Support Course, and Instructors Generic Course, Manchester EMPLOYMENT Founder of the Division of intensive pediatrics with post-intensive care, Department of Pediactrics, University Hospital Split Founder of the Referral center for pediatric emergency medicine, Ministry of Health, Republic of Croatia Director, University Hospital Centre Split ACADEMIC DEGREE: PhD, University of Rijeka, School of Medicine SCIENTIFIC DEGREE: associate profesor, Medical School, University of Split ROLES AT THE

Martin Kuhar was born on July 2, 1984, in Slavonski Brod, where he completed elementary school and natural-mathematical high school. He graduated from the School of Medicine, Uiversity of Zagreb, in 2008. He served internship at the General Hospital Sveti Duh and passed the state licence exam in 2010. From 2009 he was employed as a junior researscher, from 2005 as a postdoctoral researcher, and from 2019 as a research associate in the Department of history of medical sciences, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He earned his Phd with the thesis on eugenics in Croatia at the School of

Born in 1981 in Zagreb, where he graduated from the Classical Gymnasium and the School of Medicine in 2005. In 2011 he specialized in radiology, in 2013 he obtained a PhD, in 2015 he completed a subspecialization in ultrasound and in 2016 he was elected assistant professor at the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb. Since 2017, he has been working at the University Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Department of MSK, University Hospital Center "Zagreb". He is the author of 48 scientific papers, 17 of which are indexed in the CC index. He is a reviewer for 13

Professor Zdenko Sonicki, MD, PhD, Born in Zagreb, where he  completed elementary school,  and  high school of mathematics and informatics. Graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, where he also obtained MSc degree  in 1994, and PhD in 2002. Attended Summer institute for statistical genetics  at Washington University, USA, in 2007. In 2013  appointed to scientific grade of scientific advisor. Internship and research fellow at the University Hospital Centre Sisters of Mercy 1989-1992.  Since 1992 employed at the Department of  medical statistics, epidemiology and medical informatics, Andrija Štampar School of Public Health.  Since 2017  full professor at the

Academician Željko Reiner was born in Zagreb in 1953, where he attended a Zagreb elementary school, and then the Classical Gymnasium. He graduated from the School of Medicine in 1976, in 1978 he received his MSc degree, and in 1982 PhD at the University of Zagreb. From 1979 to 1983 he specialized internal medicine at the Sisters of Mercy University Hospital Centre in Zagreb, and at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Oklahoma City USA from 1984 to 1985. In 1986 he was appointed associate professor at the School of Medicine, University of