Curriculum Vitae
• Born in Rijeka on 26 November 1965
• Married with one child
• Independence War veteran

Education
• 2005: Earned his Doctor's degree in biomedical sciences at the Medical School of the University of Rijeka
• 2005: Earned his Master's degree in marketing management at the Faculty of Economics, University of Rijeka
• 1995: Earned his Master's degree in biomedical sciences at the Medical School of the University of Rijeka
• 1990: Graduated from the Medical School of the University of Rijeka
• 1984: Finished secondary school for education and culture in Rijeka
• 1980: Finished the Turnić Primary School in Rijeka

Political Career
• 2008-2011: Chairman of the National Council for Monitoring the Enforcement of the Anti-corruption Strategy of Croatian Parliament
• 2007-2011: Elected to Croatian Parliament, member of the Health and Social Welfare Committee and the Complaints Committee
• 2009-2011: Deputy Mayor of Rijeka
• 2008-2011: Member of the Central Board of the SDP
• 2009-2011: Vice-president of the SDP in Rijeka
• 2005-2009: Vice-chairman of the City Council of Rijeka
• 2005-2009: Chairman of the City Development Board of the Rijeka City Council
• 2001-2004: Member of the City of Rijeka government responsible for health and social welfare
• 1993-2009: Councillor at the Rijeka City Council
• 1990-2011: Member of the Presidency of the SDP in Rijeka
• 1990-1992: Elected to Croatian Parliament

Professional Career
• 2007-2008: Market development manager at the Representation Office of Schering-Plough CE AG in Croatia
• 2006-2007: Pharmacovigilance manager, responsible for monitoring side effects of the medicines of the Representation Office of General Electric Healthcare in Croatia
• 2005-2008: Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Kanal Ri
• 2001-2009: Chairman of the Management Board of the Nursing Home for the elderly at Kantrida in Rijeka
• 2001-2004: Chairman of the Anti-addiction Commission of the City of Rijeka
• 1997-2006: Staff member, product manager and director of the non-hospital program of the Representation Office of F. Hoffmann – La Roche in Croatia
• 1994-1997: Physician on the emergency team of the ER unit in Rijeka
• 29.06.1993-18.02.1994, and 04.11.1994–15.01.1995: Physician and head of the medical corps of the 133rd battalion of the Croatian Army
• 1989-1990: Student vice-provost of the University of Rijeka
• 1988.-1989: Head of the Faculty Committee of the Association of Medical School Students, University of Rijeka
• 1992-1993: General practitioner at the DINA Omišalj medical station
• 1991: Substitute teacher of biology and chemistry at the First Croatian Secondary School in Rijeka
• 1990-1991: Intern at the Community Health Centre in Rijeka

Professional and scientific activity
• 2011: Tenured assistant professor of biomedicine and health care, scientific field of medical sciences, scientific branch of pharmacology and toxicology, Department of Pharmacology, Medical School of the University of Osijek
• 2007-2011: Senior instructor at the Pharmacology Department, Talasoterapija Opatija training unit, Medical School of the University of Osijek
• 2010-2011: External associate for the optional course in Bioethics at the Department for Social Sciences of the Medical School of the University of Rijeka
• 2005-2011: External associate for the optional course in Marketing and Medicines at the Institute of Pharmacology of the Medical School of the University of Rijeka
• 2005-2010: External associate for the course in Basics of Marketing at the Marketing Department of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Rijeka
• 2003: London Business Scholl: The Management Executive Development Programme
• 2002: INSEAD, France: The Marketing Champions Postgraduate Course
• 2002-2006: Editorial board of Medicina, the periodical of the Croatian Physicians Association in Rijeka

Publications, memberships, awards
• Authored and co-authored some 50 congress declarations, professional and scientific papers, chapters in books on clinical medicine, pharmacology, pharmacy and management
• Author of the book: Take Charge of Your Body Weight, Tisak Zambelli, Rijeka, 1999, 2004
• Member of the Croatian Medical Chamber, Croatian Obesity Association, Croatian Association for Clinical Pharmacology
• Scholarship of the City of Rijeka for talented students 1988-1990.
• Won the award of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Rijeka as the best student in 1990
• Diploma of Croatian Parliament for the 20th anniversary of the constitution of the first multiparty Parliament

Foreign languages
• English

Hobbies
• Handball, music, film