Ministry of science, education and sports
Republic of Croatia

Personal Data

• born November 26, 1965 in Rijeka
• married, one child
• MD Croatian Armed Forces

Education

• 2005 doctorate at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Biomedical Science
• 2005 master's degree at the Faculty of Economics, University of Rijeka, Marketing Management
• 1995 master's degree at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Biomedical Science
• 1990 bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, medical practitioner
• 1984 Centre for Secondary Vocational Education, Rijeka

Political career

• 2008 - 2011 President of the National Council for the Monitoring of the Implementation of Anti-Corruption Strategy with the Croatian Parliament
• 2007 - 2011 Member of parliament, Committee member for Health and Welfare Politics and the Petitions and Appeals Committee of Croatian Parliament
• 2009 - 2011 Deputy Mayor of Rijeka
• 2008 - 2011 Member of the Central Committee of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) of Croatia
• 2009 - 2011 Deputy of the City Organization of the Social Democratic Party, Rijeka
• 2005 - 2009 Vice President of the Rijeka City Council
• 2005 - 2009 Head of the City Council Standing Committee for Economy and Development of Rijeka
• 2001 - 2004 Member of Rijeka's Municipal Committee for Health and Social Welfare
• 1993 - 2009 Member of Rijeka City Council
• 1990 - 2011 Member of Rijeka's Social Democratic Party Municipal Committee Presidency
• 1990 - 1992 Member of parliament

Professional career

• 2007 - 2008 Director of the Market Development, Schering Plough CE AG representation in Croatia
• 2006 - 2007 Manager of Pharmacovigilance,  in charge for the monitoring of side-effects of drugs, General Electric Healthcare, Croatia
• 2005 - 2008 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Ri Channel
• 2001 - 2009 Chairman of the Governing Council of Kantrida's Old People's Home,  Rijeka
• 2001 - 2004 Chairman of the Committee for Addictive Diseases Combat, City of Rijeka
• 1997 - 2006 Expert assistant, product manager and director of the external clinical representation F. Hoffmann - La Roche, Croatia
• 1994 - 1997 doctor with the emergency rescue team at the E.R in Rijeka
• June 1993 - February 1994,  November 1994 - January 1995 doctor and head of the medical team of the 133rd Battalion brigade of the Croatian Armed Forces
• 1989 - 1990 Student Vice - Rector, University of Rijeka
• 1988 - 1989 Chairman of the Faculty Committee of the Student's association at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka
• 1992 - 1993 general practitioner at DINA dispensary in Omišalj
• 1991 covering teacher in biology and chemistry at Secondary School in Rijeka
• 1990 - 1991 intern at the Health Centre, Rijeka

Expert and scientific activities

• 2011 - Assistant  professor in Biomedicine and Healthcare in the field of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Chair for Pharmacology,  Faculty of Medicine, University of Osijek
• 2007 - 2011 Associate professor at the Chair for Pharmacology, instructions based in Talasoterapija in Opatija, Faculty of Medicine, University of Osijek
• 2010 - 2011 External associate with the elective course ''Bioethics'',  Social Sciences Chair, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka
• 2005 - 2011 External associate with the elective course ''Marketing and Drugs'' with the Pharmacology Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka
• 2005 - 2010 External associate with the course ''Basics of Marketing'' Marketing Chair, Faculty of Economics, University of Rijeka
• 2003 London Business School: ''The management Executive Development Programme''
• 2002 INSEAD, France: ''The Marketing Champions Postgraduate Course''
• 2002 - 2006 editorial board of the Croatian Medical Association 'Medicine',Rijeka

Publications, membership, awards

• Author and co-author of fifty convention announcements, expert and scientific works, chapters in books in the field of clinical medicine, pharmacology, pharmacy and management
• Author of the book "Preuzmite kontrolu nad svojom tjelesnom težinom' - Take Charge of your Body Weight; Zambelli Press, Rijeka 1999; 2004
• Membership: Croatian Medical Chamber, Croatian Association for Obesity and Croatian Association for Clinical Pharmacology
• City of Rijeka Scholarship for gifted university students
• Rector's Award for Best Student in 1990, University of Rijeka
• Charter of the Croatian Parliament on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the first Constitution of a multiparty Parliament

Languages

• English

Interests

• Handball, music, movies