Curriculum Vitae
• Born in Split on 14 October 1959
• Married with three children

Education
• 2000: Earned his Doctor's degree in biomedical science at the Medical School of the University of Zagreb
• 1989: Earned his Master's degree in biomedical science at the Medical School of the University of Zagreb
• 1983: Graduated from the Medical School of the University of Zagreb
• 1978: Finished secondary school in Makarska
• 1973: Finished the Vid Mihaljević Primary School in Makarska

Political Career
• 2010: Councillor of the Zagreb City Council, chairman of the Elections and Appointments Committee, member of the Committee for Finance, member of the Health Care Committee
• 2007–2011: Elected to Croatian Parliament, member of the Committee for Information, IT and the Media, member of the Health Care and Social Welfare Committee
• 2005–2009: Councillor of the Zagreb City Council, chairman of the Health Care and Social Welfare Committee
• 2010: Vice-president of the SDP Zagreb
• 2007: Member of the Central Board of the SDP
• 2002–2005: President of the Andrija Medulić local chapter
• Member of the SDP since 1997

Professional Career
• 2010: Tenured Associate Professor at the Medical School, University of Zagreb
• 2009–2011: Head of the National Register of Bone Marrow Donors
• 2005: Tenured Assistant Lecturer at the Medical School of the University of Zagreb
• 2004: Chief Physician/Senior Consultant
• 2000–2004: Member of the Board and Assistant Manager for Medical Affairs, Clinical Hospital Centre
• 2000: Subspecialist exam in haematology
• 1997–2000: Head of Team for reducing medicines consumption at the Zagreb Clinical Hospital Centre
• 1993–2009: Specialist in internal medicine at the Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit of the Institute of Haematology of the Internal Medicine Clinic of the Zagreb Clinical Hospital Centre
• 1993: Specialist exam in internal medicine
• 1989–1990: Study visit to the Medical College of Wisconsin, IBMTR, USA
• 1987–1992: Internal medicine resident at the Zagreb Clinical Hospital Centre
• 1988–1989: Postgraduate study in haematology at the Medical School, University of Zagreb
• 1985–1987: Postgraduate study in clinical immunology and allergology at the Medical School, University of Zagreb
• 1985–1987: Junior researcher at the Medical School, University of Zagreb
• 1984–1985: Intern at the Zagreb Clinical Hospital Centre

Publications
• 44 publications quoted in Current Contents
• 24 publications quoted in SCI, SSCI, Index Medicus, Excerpta Medica, Biological or Chemical Abstracts
• 5 teaching papers

Memberships and awards
• Medical Director and one of the founders of the Ana Rukavina Foundation
• Member of the Central Board of the Croatian Association of Patients Suffering from Rare Diseases
• Member of the Board of Directors of the European Organisation for Rare Diseases
• Founder and member of the Croatian Association for Leukaemia and Lymphoma, 1992-2002
• Member of the Croatian Physicians Association
• Member of the Croatian Medical Chamber
• Member of the Assembly of the Croatian Medical Chamber
• Member of the Commission for Hospital Industry of the Croatian Physicians Association, 2007-2011
• Member of the Association for Haematology with Transfusion (Secretary 1994–1998)
• Member of the Association for Rare Diseases
• Member of the European Haematology Association
• Member of the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
• Member of the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry, Milwaukee, USA
• Member of the Centre for International Blood and Marrow Transplantation Research
• Member of the European Blood and Marrow Transplant Group
• 1987: Vice-Chancellor's award for the best student scientific paper
• Honorary citizen of the island of Mljet

Foreign languages
• English

Hobbies
• Boules
• Traditional Dalmatian a capella singing