Marijana Gelo - OFFICE MANAGER
marijana.gelo@cmj.hrMarijana Gelo is the office manager at the Croatian Medical Journal. She obtained a degree of Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) and Communication and Media Studies from the Business College in Zagreb.
Marko Kljaković-Gašpić - PRODUCTION
Croatian Medical Journal, Zagreb University School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
marko.gaspic@cmj.hr
Sandra Kostić, PhD - ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
sandra.kostic@mefst.hr
Sandra Kostić received her degree in Biotechnology from University of Zagreb, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology in 2008 and received her PhD from University of Split, School of Medicine in 2013. She works as a associate professor in Histology and Embryology, and is involved in several other undergraduate and graduate courses. She is a Head of Laboratory for microscopy.
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.
Jelka Petrak, BA, PhD - SCIENTOMETRICS
Central Medical Library, Zagreb University School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
jelka.petrak@mef.hr
Dr Petrak 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. Her research interest is bibliometrics and information literacy, from which she published several scientific reports.
Dunja Gorup, MD - SOCIAL NETWORKS
Dr Dunja Gorup graduated from the University of Zagreb School of Medicine in 2008, and in 2009 started a PhD program in neuroscience. She works as an assistant at the Department of Histology and Embriology, University of Zagreb School of Medicine and in the Laboratory for Neurogenetics and Developmental Genetics at the Croatian Institute for Brain Research. She is involved in the collaboration with the Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada. Her research interests are in the field of recovery and regeneration after brain ischemia.
Ksenija Baždarić - RESEARCH INTEGRITY EDITOR
Department of Medical Informatics, Rijeka University School of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia
bksenija@medri.hr
Ksenija Baždarić is a research fellow at the Department of Medical Informatics Rijeka University School of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia. She obtained a master’s degree in psychology and started the postgraduate study of Biomedicine at the Rijeka University. She joined the Croatian Medical Journal as the Research Integrity Editor in 2012 after she had completed the scientific project “Prevalence and Attitudes Towards Plagiarism” (2009-2011), which dealt with plagiarism in manuscripts submitted to the CMJ. Her current research activities include detection of plagiarism among medical students. She is also interested in biostatistics and scientific methodology; and she speaks English, Russian, and Italian.
Ivan Salarić, DMD, PhD - RESEARCH INTEGRITY EDITOR
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, University of Zagreb, School of Dental Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
ivansalaric@hotmail.com
Ivan Salarić graduated from the University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine in 2012 and completed his PhD at the same institution in 2019. He is a oral surgery specialist and is currently working at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava and as a postdoctoral researcher at Department of Oral Surgery, University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine. He was awarded the National Cancer Research Institute Company of Biologists Award in 2018, Robert Frank Award in 2014 and Rector's award in 2012 for his research on oral cancer and salivary markers. His scientific interests are oral cancer diagnostics, salivary diagnostics and dental implantology.
Katarina Ilić, MD, PhD - MANUSCRIPT EDITING
Katarina Ilić, MD, PhD received her medical doctor degree in 2013 and completed a PhD in neuroscience at the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb in 2018. She works as a teaching assistant in Fundamentals of Neuroscience course at School of Medicine, University of Zagreb and as a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory for Molecular Neurobiology and Neurochemistry at the Croatian Institute for Brain Research. Her research interests are the effects of neurodegeneration on the membrane lipid composition and protein expression and lipid-protein interplay.
Nikola Habek, MD, PhD - MANUSCRIPT EDITING
Nikola Habek, MD, PhD graduated from the University of Zagreb School of Medicine in 2013 and completed PhD in Neuroscience in 2018 at the same Institution. He works as teaching assistant at Department of Physiology at School of Medicine University of Zagreb and as postdoctoral researcher in Laboratory of Cellular Neurophysiology at the Croatian Institute for Brain Research. His research interests are neurophysiology specially electrophysiology and synaptic modulation. He finished training in electrophysiology and Ca2+ imaging at European Neuroscience Institute in Göttingen (ENI-G).
Jan Homolak, MD - MANUSCRIPT EDITING
Jan Homolak, MD, graduated from the University of Zagreb School of Medicine in 2018. Jan is a PhD student in the Laboratory for Molecular Neuropharmacology at the Department of Pharmacology and the Croatian Institute for Brain Research and he works as a teaching assistant at the Department of Pharmacology. His research interests include biomedical research methods and the pathophysiology of the gastrointestinal tract in neurodegeneration.
Josip Juras, MD, PhD - STATISTICS EDITOR
Josip Juras, MD, PhD, graduated from the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 2008. He completed a PhD at the same institution in 2015. He is specialist in gynecology and obstetrics. He is currently working at the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb as associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and at University Hospital Center Zagreb, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Also, he is secretary of "Gynaecologia et Perinatologia" journal, treasurer and board member of Croatian Society for Perinatal Medicine. He is involved in undergraduate and post-graduate education, and doctoral studies. His main professional interests are pathology of pregnancy, fetal medicine and methodology of biomedical research.
Marko Lucijanić, MD, PhD - STATISTICS EDITOR
Marko Lucijanić graduated from the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 2010 and completed a PhD at the same institution in 2017. He is currently working as a Hematology Specialist at the University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia. His scientific interests are biology of myeloproliferative neoplasms and translation from basic to clinical hematology. He is also interested in biostatistics, particularly survival analysis, clinical trial design, drug evaluation and evidence based medicine. He has published in top peer-reviewed journals like JAMA, JAMA Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, European Heart Journal and other. He fluently uses English and understands German. Born in Karlovac, father of three sons.
Pero Hrabač, MD - STATISTICS EDITOR
Pero Hrabač was born in Zagreb, where he attended elementary and high school (Mathematical Informatical Educational Center). He has graduated from the Zagreb University School of Medicine and is currently completing
a PhD at the same institution. He is an assistant at the Department of Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Medical Informatics at the "Andrija Štampar" School of Public Health. Besides this job, he is currently also Head of the Department of Information Technology at the School of Medicine. Before current jobs at the School of Medicine, he has worked for range of Pharmaceutical companies both in Croatia and abroad. His scientific interests include themes from public health, especially regarding long-term effects of war on health of veterans.
Zdenko Sonicki, MD, PhD - STATISTICS EDITOR
I graduated from the Medical Shool, University of Zagreb, where I also received a Master's degree as well as PhD academic degree in the field of biomedicine and health. I am an experienced professor with 25+ years of working in the higher education. My focus is in Biostatistics, Medical Informatics, Lecturing, Healthcare, and Clinical Research. Besides statistics, I am interested in inductive learning algorithms, artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks and their application in medicine. Recently, IoT, GIS and application of modern technology wearables in improving life quality of aging people and precision medicine came to my attention. I enjoy food and wine with family and friends. I like photography, have a decent vinyl records and enjoy writing with fountain pens.
