Expertise:
- Minimally invasive cervical spine surgery
- Minimally invasive lumbar spine surgery
- Diagnostic minimally invasive cervical and lumbar spine procedures
- Therapeutic minimally invasive cervical and lumbar spine procedures
Education:
- 2002 graduated from School of Medicine, University of Zagreb
- 2007 PhD in Physiology and Immunobiology at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
- 2010 Specialist in neurosurgery
- 2011 Senior Research Fellow in the Biomedical and Health Sciences – Clinical Medical Science Field
- 2011 Permanently appointed Neurosurgery Expert Witness
- 2011 spent three months with Prof. Kapurala at Carolinas Pain Institute and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
- 2014 Assistant Professor at the Neurosurgery Department of the University of Rijeka Faculty of Medicine
- 2014 completed the course Percutaneous lumbar and thoracic endoscopic spine surgery at the Institute of Clinical Anatomy Tübingen, Germany
- 2014 completed Salzburg Weill Cornell University Seminar in Spinal Surgery
- 2014 završio Alphatec Spine MIS Symposium Hands-on Cadaver Workshop at the Institute of Anatomy, Medical University of Vienna
Experience:
- 2004–2010 Neurosurgery residency at “Sestre milosrdnice” University Hospital Center
- 2011–2017 Special Hospital St. Catherine, Head of Vertebrology Department
- 2017 – Neurosurgeon at Aksis Special Hospital
Other activities:
- member of the Croatian Medical Chamber, Croatian Medical Association, Croatian Neurosurgical Society, and Board Member at Croatian Society for Vertebrology
- since 2012 – reviewerof the journal Acta Clinica Croatica, OMICS Group Biomedical Journals, Progress in Orthopedic Science, and Medicina Fluminensis indexed in the MEDLINE database
- since 2014, head of the course “Diagnosis and treatment of painful conditions of the spine with minimally invasive procedures” at the University of Rijeka Faculty of Medicine and at Nursing Studies at University North
- invited speaker at several international symposia and congresses
- published 11 papers in journals indexed in Current Contents, SCI, and SCIE; 11 papers in journals indexed in other databases; 4 papers in non-indexed journals