Biography

Doctor Dijana Travica Samsa was born in 1973 in Rijeka, she graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka in 1998. During her studies (1995-1998) she was a student assistant at the Department of Pathology and Pathological Anatomy of the Medical Faculty in Rijeka. In 1999 she completed an internship as an employee of the Community Health Centre Rijeka. From 2000 to 2008 she was and expert associate of the pharmaceutical company ‘Abbott laboratories’ with a representative office in Zagreb, and since 2009 she has been employed in Thalassotherapia Opatija. From 2010 until 2014 she was internal medicine resident in CHC Rijeka, she passed the specialist exam in 2014 and acquired the title of specialist in internal medicine. From 2010 until 2012 she attended the Postgraduate Professional Study of Internal Medicine organized by CHC Rijeka. From 2010 until 2015 she was a teaching associate at the undergraduate and graduate study of medicine, dental medicine and undergraduate study of sanitary engineering at the Department of Physiology and Immunology of the Medical Faculty in Rijeka. In 2012 she defended her doctoral dissertation - Assessment of inflammatory response in patients during acute myocardial infarction - University of Rijeka, Faculty of Medicine Rijeka. Since 2012 she was an assistant, and since 2015 a research associate in the scientific field of biomedicine and health, scientific field of clinical medical science, scientific branch of internal medicine, at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka. Today she has the title of the assistant professor. During her work, she specialized in performing scientific work in the field of computer science, statistical data processing in biomedical research and the use of research and laboratory equipment. She mastered laboratory methods of immunohistochemistry and immunecytology at the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka. She has specialized in the field of cardiac rehabilitation, advanced reanimation procedures, chronic heart failure, arterial hypertension, obesity, arrhythmology, echocardiography and CPET in numerous continuing education courses in Croatia and abroad. Her focus is on cardiac rehabilitation. She is the author and co-author of scientific and professional articles, 3 of them are indexed in SCIE and Current Contents bibliographic databases. She has participated in numerous international and scientific conferences. She is a member of numerous associations of health professionals. She is fluent in English.