MD, PhD,
Zagreb, Croatia

I have graduated at Zagreb Medical School in 2001 with honors. I have finished residency in internal medicine, and then fellowships in respiratory medicine and medical oncology at University Hospital Centre Zagreb. I have done my PhD at University of Zagreb, School of Medicine and defend the thesis at 2007. I did part of my training at National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA.

Since 2007, I am part of a faculty at Zagreb Medical School, and currently holding position of associate professor of internal and respiratory medicine. I am also deputy director of PhD studies at Zagreb Medical School.

From 2008 to 2015 I was head of Laboratory for molecular biology and origins of lung cancer.

Since 2017, I am head of Unit for Thoracic Oncology at Department for Respiratory Diseases, University Hospital Centre.

I have published papers in peer-reviewed journals and many book chapters in the field of thoracic oncology and respiratory medicine. I have been invited as a speaker in many international and domestic congresses and conferences in the field od thoracic oncology.

Until Today, publications have been cited 2678 time, with H – index 21.

I am member of IASLC, ASCO, ESMO, CECOG, ERS, ATS, Croatian Thoracic Society, Croatian Society for Medical Oncology, Croatian Oncology Society. At the moment I am holding position of General secretary of Croatian Thoracic Society.

Main fields of interests are non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, mesothelioma and  thymoma, both at clinical level, and especially and translational level.