University of Zagreb

School of Medicine

Postgraduate specialist studies

• Pediatrics (Prof. Ernest Bilić, MD, PhD, Prof. Ruža Grizelj, MD, PhD)
• Generic course General Competences of Medical Specialists (Prof. Ruža Grizelj, MD, PhD), Associate Physician module (Prof. Jurica Vuković, , MD, PhD)

PhD Programme Biomedicine and Health

Courses

• Selected chapters of developmental age epileptology (Prof. Nina Barišić, MD, PhD, supervisor)
• Clinical nutrition (Prof. Sanja Kolaček, MD, PhD, and Assoc. Prof. Iva Hosak, MD, PhD)
• Liver transplantation in children (Prof. Jurica Vuković, MD, PhD)

• International project of the European Association for Pediatric Rheumatology, Definition of disease status, outcomes and follow-up in IgA vasculitis: a PReS/PRINTO survey and consensus conference, project of the Pediatric Rheumatology European Society (PReS) Vasculitis Working Party, Principal investigator: Prof. Marija Jelušić, MD, PhD
• International project of the European Association for Pediatric Rheumatology, Treatment of patients with severe cutaneous manifestations in IgA vasculitis - multicenter, international study, project of the Pediatric Rheumatology European Society (PReS) Vasculitis Working Party, Principal investigator: Prof. Marija Jelušić, MD, PhD
• International project of the European Association for Pediatric Rheumatology, Histological predictors of outcome in patients with Henoch-Schonlein purpura / IgA vasculitis and nephritis project of the Pediatric Rheumatology European Society (PReS) Vasculitis Working Party, Principal investigator: Prof. Marija Jelušić, MD, PhD
• Croatian Science Foundation project, Histological, clinical, laboratory and genetic predictors of outcome in patients with Henoch Schönlein's purpura and nephritis, IP-2019-04-8822, Principal investigator: Prof. Marija Jelušić, MD, PhD
• The CROseq-GenomeBank project – a collaborative international project of the Mila za SVE Foundation, KBC Zagreb and Brigham and Women's Hospital/Mass General Brigham, Boston, USA, Principal clinical investigator: Prof. Prof. Mario Ćuk, MD, PhD
• Project of the Croatian Science Foundation Intestinal diseases in children: a view beyond the digestive system IP-2019-04-3028, Principal investigator: Assoc. Prof. Iva Hojsak, MD, PhD
• COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action, CA21168 - Improving outcome of Juvenile Inflammatory Rheumatism via universally applicable clinical practice strategies (JIR-CliPS), Principal investigator: Prof. Michaël Hoffer, national coordinator and member of the Board of Directors: Prof. Marija Jelušić, MD, PhD
• National Scleroderma Foundation grant, USA, Developing Classification Criteria for Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis: An International Effort to Enable Pediatric-focused Clinical Trials, (2023-2025), national coordinator: Prof. Marija Jelušić, MD, PhD
• Project of the Center for Personalized Immunology (Centre for Personalized Immunology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia), Australian NHMRC Center of Research Excellence grant APP1079648, Genetic and cellular analysis of autoimmune and inflammatory disease, national coordinator: Prof. Marija Jelušić, MD, PhD
• Project Genetic basis of SAPHO syndrome China Australia Center for Personalized Immunology, Renhi Hospital, Jiaotong University, Shanghai, national coordinator: Prof. Ph.D. Marija Jelušić, MD, PhD
• European Union project The PRINTO (Pediatric Rheumatology International Trail Organization) Evidence-based Revision of the International League Against Rheumatism (ILAR) Classification criteria for juvenile idiopathic Arthritis, national coordinator: Prof. Marija Jelušić, MD, PhD
• European Union project, PReS/PRINTO grant Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Localized Scleroderma Quality of Life Instrument (LoSQI) in juvenile localized scleroderma (JLS): a multicentre study, national coordinator: Prof. Ph.D. Marija Jelušić, MD, PhD
• European Union project, PReS/PRINTO grant Optimizing treatment in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) and macrophage activation syndrome (MAS)/secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH): a PReS/PRINTO initiative, national coordinator: Prof. Marija Jelušić, MD, PhD
• European Union FP7 project, Long-term PHARMAacovigilance for adverse effects in childhood arthritis focusing on immune modulatory drugs - PHARMACHILD, Grant Agreement number 260353 (Italian CUP: G31J11000110006), funded by the European Union (EU) within the FP7 framework for Research and Technological Development, national coordinator: Prof.  Marija Jelušić, MD, PhD
• University support approved by the Senate of the University of Zagreb, Possibilities of personalized medicine in the treatment of children with autoimmune diseases, Principal investigator: Prof. Marija Jelušić, MD, PhD
• University support approved by the Senate of the University of Zagreb, Cholestatic liver diseases in children, Principal investigator: Prof. Jurica Vuković, MD, PhD

Teaching associates

External Associates

• dr. sc. Branka Bunoza, dr. med.
• dr. sc. Andrea Dasović Buljević, dr. med.
• prim. mr. sc. Kristina Vrljičak, dr. med
• Dorotea Bartoniček, dr. med.
• Nevenka Cigrovski, dr. med.
• Ivan Lehman, dr. med.
• Lucija Mucavac, dr. med.
• Lana Omerza, dr. med.
• Maja Pavlović, dr. med.

Adjunct teachers

Teachers from other departments participating in teaching