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Executive Editors
16.12.2008 Dario Sambunjak, MD - SENIOR EDITOR
Dr Sambunjak graduated from the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 2000 and is currently working at the same school as a research fellow-assistant. He is also a member of the Publications Commitee of the European Association of Science Editors, and a member of the editorial board of Liječničke Novine, the journal of the Croatian Chamber of Physicians. He teaches principles of scientific research at the Zagreb School of Medicine, and his research interests include science communication, peace through health, and mentorship in academic medicine.
12.05.2010 Vesna Kušec, MD, PhD - MANAGING EDITOR
Department for Laboratory Diagnostics,
Professor Kušec graduated the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 1982 and received her PhD degree in 1988. Her current position is in Laboratory for endocrinology and vitamins with expertise in bone metabolism and endocrinology, also engaged in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
12.05.2010 Armando Chapin Rodríguez, PhD - MANAGING EDITOR
Dr Rodríguez received his PhD in molecular biology and biochemistry from Cambridge University, and he carried out postdoctoral work in neuroscience at Brigham and Women's Hospital (US). He has published 10 research articles in 8 international journals, and he currently conducts research on improving medical education in China. He is Director of Scientific Training at the Association for the Promotion of Multimedia Education (UMNA), and he has organized workshops on technical communication in Croatia, Spain, Perú, and China. He is Visiting Instructor of Technical Communication at an inter-university master's program in Madrid, and he participates actively in the Science Communication Workgroup of the Euroscience Association.
16.12.2008 Danka Grčević, MD, PhD - BOOK REVIEWS
Department of Physiology and Immunology, Zagreb University School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
dgrcevic@mef.hr
Dr Grčević graduated from the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 1992 and received her MS degree from the Zagreb University School of Natural Sciences in 1998. She is Assistant at the Department of Physiology and Immunology, and teaches physiology, immunology, and principles of scientific research in medicine. Her research interests are in the field of transplantation immunology, graft-versus-host reaction, hematopoietic cells differentiation, molecular biology of bone, and interactions of bone and immune systems. Her major research achievement is the introduction of a specific ex vivo pharmacological pretreatment of allogenic bone marrow transplant for alleviation of graft-versus-host reaction. Since 1996, she is the Managing Editor of the Croatian Medical Journal.
16.12.2008 Marko Kljaković-Gašpić - PRODUCTION
Croatian Medical Journal, Zagreb University School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
mgaspic@mef.hr
Marko Kljakovic-Gaspic never graduated. Maybe he will one day. Until then, he is working in a production department of CMJ. He is responsible for CMJ's covers. Now and then he writes editorials, too. Not married, one dog.
16.12.2008 Damir Sapunar, MD, PhD - ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
Department of Histology and Embryology, Split University School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
Professor Sapunar received his MD from the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 1989, and PhD in 1996. His current position is Head of the Pain Research laboratory, Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, University of Split Medical School. His field of work are peripheral mechanisms of neuropathic pain.
14.01.2009 Katarina Vukojević, MD, PhD - ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, University of Mostar
Dr Vukojević graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Mostar in 2004, received a master's degree in 2008, and obtained her doctorate from the University of Split Medical School in 2009. She teaches histology and embryology. Her research interests are in the field of normal human development with special emphasis on the formation of peripheral nervous system.
11.03.2009 Antonija Paić, LANGUAGE EDITOR
My love for reading began very early. As a kid I used to read anything I could get my hands on – mostly adventures and detective stories. And I watched a lot of Hollywood catastrophe movies, which made me want to become a seismologist, predict earthquakes and climb volcanoes. After high school, my love for reading (and not-so-good marks in physics) prevailed and I decided to study Comparative Literature and English Language instead of seismology. I still read a lot. Only, since I started working for the Croatian Medical Journal, my reading has been consisting mostly of scientific articles. However, I realized that they also can be an interesting read and making them more readable for other people an interesting job.
19.02.2009 Dijana Gugic, MD - LANGUAGE EDITOR
dijana.gugic@gmail.com
Dijana Gugic, MD graduated from the Split University School of Medicine in January 2005 and soon moved to Florida, USA, where she studied cancer genetics for two years as a postdoctoral fellow for the University of Miami. Today she is a research associate and student instructor for the Department of Pathology, Forensic Medicine and Cytology in Split University Hospital. She enjoys spending her leisure time travelling and exploring the world with her camera, relaxing together with Mrs. Nature and Mr. Right, playing an acoustic guitar, and writing poetry in Croatian, English and Italian. Her dream is to continue growing, both intellectually and spiritually… so she can dream EVEN BIGGER.
16.12.2008 Darko Hren, PhD - STATISTICS
Darko Hren graduated from Department of Psychology Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy in 2002. He works as a research fellow - assistant in Croatian Medical Journal, conducting research connected to the impact of the CMJ to the croatian scientific community. He teaches principles of scientific research in medicine in Zagreb and study skills in Mostar. Also works as a psychotherapist. Married, two dogs...
16.12.2008 Lidija Bilic - Zulle, PhD - STATISTICS
Department of Medical Informatics, Rijeka University School of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia
lidija.bilic-zulle@medri.hr
Lidija Bilic-Zulle received her B.Sc in medical biochemistry from Zagreb University School of Pharmacy and Medical Biochemistry in Zagreb, Croatia in 1993. After three years of residency in Zagreb University Hospital she becomes specialist in medical biochemistry. She got the Masters' degree in biomedical sciences at Zagreb University School of Pharmacy and Medical Biochemistry in year 2003 and PhD degree in year 2006 at Rijeka University School of Medicine. She is working as senior instructor at Department of Medical Informatics at Rijeka University School of Medicine in Rijeka and as specialist in medical biochemistry at Department of Laboratory Diagnostics in Rijeka Clinical Hospital Center, Rijeka, Croatia. Her fields of research are scientific and academic integrity, especially plagiarism; health informatics, biostatistics and medical biochemistry. She is member of Committee for Ethics in Science and High Education of Parliament of Republic of Croatia.
16.12.2008 Vesna Ilakovac, BS in Ed, MSc, PhD - STATISTICS
Department of Biophysics, Medical Statistics and Medical Informatics, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, School of Medicine Osijek
vilakov@mefos.hr
Dr. Ilakovac graduated from the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek Faculty of Education with majors in mathematics and physics. She recieved her MSc from the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 1997, and PhD from the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek School of Medicine in 2005. She teaches medical statistics and medical informatics to nursing, medical and postgraduate students at Osijek School of Medicine. Her main interest is to promote the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth with statistics.
11.03.2009 Goran Kardum, PhD - STATISTICS
University of Split, Faculty of philosophy
gkardum@ffst.hr
Goran Kardum graduated from Department of psychology, Zagreb Faculty of philosophy in 1998 and received his PhD degree at the same school in 2007. Currently his major research achievement is states of consciousness, sleep medicine, and psychology of religion. From 2001 until 2008 he worked at the Departments of neuroscience and scientific methodology and also in Laboratory of Clinical Neuroscience of Split University School of medicine. In October 2008, he joined the Split Faculty of philosophy as a researcher and teacher in different psychological and methodological topics.
11.03.2009 Ana Jerončić, MPhil - STATISTICS
University of Split, Faculty of Natural Science, Teslina 12
alucin@pmfst.hr
Ana Jerončić is a research and teaching assistant at the Department of Scientific Methodology in Biomedical Sciences & Department of Neuroscience. She graduated from the University of Zagreb in 2003 with major in bioinformatics. Her research focus is modeling of complex biological systems. Currently, she participates in developing physical models of brain activity during sleep as a team member of the Laboratory for Clinical Neuroscience, Split University School of Medicine, and Laboratory of Chronobiology and Sleep Research, University of Zurich. Ana has many interests and is especially drawn to the research in multidisciplinary area. Among other things, she is a Marie Curie fellow in sleep research, project coordinator of INTERREG III A project, and public relation representative of Gelato community, which deals with high-performance computing on Itanium platforms for the University of Split.
16.12.2008 Mladen Petrovečki, MD, PhD - RESEARCH INTEGRITY
Division of Laboratory Immunology, Dubrava University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
mladenp@medri.hr
Dr Petrovečki is Associate Professor of Medical Informatics and Head of the Department of Computer Science at the Rijeka University School of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia. He is also laboratory immunologist and a coordinator of the Croatian Academic Research Network (CARNet) at the Dubrava University Hospital in Zagreb. Dr Petrovečki joined the Croatian Medical Journal as a Managing Editor in 1994, when the journal was redesigned, and in 1997 became its Statistical Editor. His expertise is laboratory support of clinical bone marrow transplantation. His current research activities include the use and evaluation of electronic media as a distance learning tool during the graduate study of medicine.
16.12.2008 Vedran Katavić, MD, PhD - RESEARCH INTEGRITY
Department of Anatomy, Zagreb University School of Medicine
vkatavic@mef.hr
Dr Katavić graduated from the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 1994 and received his MS degree from the Zagreb University School of Natural Sciences in 1998. His research interests are in the field of bone immunology, molecular biology of bone, interactions of bone and immune systems, mouse inbred strains, and knockout mice. He is Senior Instructor at the Department of Anatomy and Proofs Editor of the Croatian Medical Journal since the beginning of 1999. He has been involved with the publishing of the Croatian Medical Journal since 1996 as its Technical Editor.
16.12.2008 Nataša Kovačić, MD, PhD - BOOK REVIEWS
Department of Anatomy, Zagreb University School of Medicine
natasa@mef.hr
Dr Kovačić graduated from the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 1995. She teaches gross anatomy and principles of scientific research in medicine. Her research interests are in the field of immunology, molecular biology of bone, and interactions of bone and immune systems. Since 2001, she is the Executive Editor in charge of book and software reviews.
16.12.2008 Ivan Krešimir Lukić, MD, PhD - CROATIAN INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS
Biosistemi d.o.o., Zagreb, Croatia
Krešimir Lukić graduated from the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 1998 and obtained PhD in immunology at the same School in 2005. Sadly, the School failed to provide acceptable working conditions, so he left in 2008. No one really understands his current work description, so let's simply say that he teaches Mac Taylor how to identify the vics. Krešo still tries to do a bit of research, mainly related to inflammation, but these days he does it pro bono. Although he has never treated a patient, Krešo prefers to be addressed as “Dr. Lukić”. Joining the Croatian Medical Journal in 1998 he was first in charge of Book Reviews, got promoted to Statistics in (as far as he recalls) 2000, while in 2009 he managed to take over the section with the highest impact on the local medical society. Dr. Lukić has no hobbies, no interests, and no life.
16.12.2008 Mirza Žižak, MD, PhD - MULTIMEDIA
Department of Physiology and Immunology, Zagreb University School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
zizak@mef.hr
Dr Žižak graduated from the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 1987 and received his MS degree from the Zagreb University School of Natural Sciences in 1992, and PhD degree from Zagreb University School of Medicine in 1996. He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Physiology and Immunology, and teaches physiology and immunology. His research interests are in the field of membrane transports, regulation of Na+/H+ exchange, molecular biology of cell signalling. His major research achievement is discovering the accessory regulatory protein NHERF2, transmembrane topology of NHE3 and transmembrane binding protein for CaM kinase II. Since 2006, he is the Multimedia Editor of the Croatian Medical Journal.
16.12.2008 Tomislav Kuliš, MD - MULTIMEDIA
Tomislav Kuliš graduated from the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 2005. He is urology resident in University Hospital Center Zagreb. Since 2006, he is executive editor
16.12.2008 Mirjana Huić, MD, MSc - EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE
Croatian Medical Journal, Zagreb University School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
mhuic@mef.hr
Dr Huić graduated from the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 1989, where she also obtained her MSc degree in 1996. She is a specialist of clinical pharmacology and toxicology since 2002. From 1992 until 2006 she worked at Section of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Zagreb University Hospital Center. In 2006, she joined the CMJ as the Editor for Evidence Based-medicine (EBM). She teaches principles of EBM and rational pharmacotherapy at the Zagreb University School of Medicine. Her research interests include EBM, empathy in patient care, and registration of clinical trials.
16.12.2008 Zvonko Rumboldt, MD, PhD - MEDICAL ETHICS
Split University Hospital and School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Split, Croatia
zr@mefst.hr
Dr Rumboldt holds the positions of Professor of Internal Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology; Head of Department of Medicine, University Hospital Split, Croatia; and Dean, University of Split Medical School. He received his MD degree from the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 1963 and PhD in 1979. He was a research fellow at the university of Florence (Italy), Georgetown and Vanderbilt (USA). His research field is hypertension and vascular reactivity from where he has published extensively. He described presynaptic a-adrenergic receptors in human veins in situ and in vivo, and explained the mechanism of adrenalin tachyphylaxis. He likes fishing and swimming.
16.12.2008 Stella Fatović-Ferenčić, MD, PhD - MEDICAL HUMANITIES
Division for the History and Philosophy of Sciences, Department for the History of Medicine
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Gundulićeva 24/III
stella@hazu.hr
Dr. Fatović-Ferenčić is a senior research associate in the Department for the History of Medicine of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts/Zagreb and associate professor of History of medicine and Medical Ethics in the Osijek School of Medicine University J.J. Strossmayer in Osijek. She graduated her MD in 1984 and PhD in 1996. She studies Croatian medical history within the European context with particular interest to the history of epidemiology, dermatovenerology and surgery. She is CMJ Medical Humanities editor since 2005.
16.12.2008 Igor Rudan, MD, DSc, PhD, MPH - MEDICAL HUMANITIES
Igor Rudan graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 1995. He obtained M.Sc. in Anthropology in 1997, Ph.D.
degree in Epidemiology in 1998, both at the University of Zagreb; M.P.H.
degree in Genetic Epidemiology at the University of Pavia, Italy in 1999, and a PhD in Genetics at the at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, Scotland, UK in 2005. He is presently an Associate Professor at the Universities of Zagreb and Split, Croatia. He has also been working as a consultant, adviser or technical expert at the University of Edinburgh Medical School since 2001; World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland since 2002; UNICEF in New York, USA since 2004; UK Department for International Development since 2005; and Global Forum for Health Research in Geneva, Switzerland since 2005. Dr Rudan has published more than 100 papers, book chapters, books and monographs to date, raised more than 7 million Euros in competitive research grants as principal or co-principal investigator (including "The Croatian Biobank") and has been awarded 15 national and international awards for his scientific work. In 2005 he won The National Scientist Award by the Croatian Parliament.
16.12.2008 Jelka Petrak, BA, PhD - SCIENTOMETRICS
Central Medical Library, Zagreb University School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
petrak@mef.hr
Dr Petrak is the Head of the Central Medical Library at the Zagreb University School of Medicine. She received her BA from the Zagreb University, Faculty of Philosophy, in 1977 and PhD in 1998. She teaches methods of scientific research at Zagreb University School of Medicine and Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dr Petrak is a member of the Editorial Board of the Newsletter to European Association for Health Information and Libraries. Her research interest is bibliometrics and user education, from which she published several scientific reports.
11.03.2009 Ana Utrobičić - SCIENTOMETRICS
Ana Utrobičić is the Head of the Central Medical Library at the University of Split School of Medicine. She graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy in 1991 with majors in Comparative Literature and Indology. She also obtained a degree in Librarianship.
Zdravko Perko, MD, PhD - HRVATSKE STRANICE / CROATIAN PAGES
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11.03.2009 Marijana Gelo - EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Marijana Gelo is the editorial administrative assistant at the CMJ. She also studies at the Business College in Zagreb, hoping to graduate next year. She is married, has two children and a dog. Between her numerous obligations, she manages to find some time to relax with the family and friends, get a massage, and sometimes even to make a cake for her office colleagues.