Biography

founder and director of the Special Hospital for Ophthalmology Svjetlost is specialist ophthalmologist and sub- specialist for surgery of the anterior ocular segment. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Zagreb and completed the specialization in the Clinical Hospital Center Rebro, under the mentorship of Professor Krešimir Čupak, doyen of Croatian ophthalmology. At the same faculty he acquired master's degree in 1988 on "Computerized monitoring of postoperative complications after cataract surgery." He received his PhD in 1997 with the dissertation "Co mparative analysis of storing corneal transplant in rabbits and man - a contribution to the formation of the first Croatian eye bank" under the supervision of Doctor Ljerka Henč - Petrinović. Since 2000, he holds the academic title of the Assistant Professo r at the Faculty of medicine, University of Rijeka, and since 2009 has the status of full professor. Training in the field of surgery of the anterior ocular segment he had in prestigious medical centers in Japan, Germany, Britain, US, Russia and Switzerlan d. Prof. PhD Nikica Gabrić is specialized in surgery of the anterior ocular segment, he carried out more than 80,000 cataract surgeries, glaucoma, refractive surgeries, corneal transplantation, and strabismus .He carried out surgeries in more than 17 count ries worldwide, in more than 50 operating theaters, including the prestigious Fyodorov Institute in Russia. He gained work experience as a specialist ophthalmologist, and later as the Head of the Department of Ophthalmology in General Hospital Sveti Duh in Zagreb. He was the first one in Croatia who performed laser vision correction, and was founder and president of Lions Croatian Eye Bank. He is the founder and president of the Croatian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. He was a board member of t he European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ESCRS), the European Eye Bank Association (EEBA), he is a member of the board of the European Association of Ophthalmology (SOE) and the European Society of Ophthalmology SE Europe (SEEOS). He is an a ctive member of the Croatian Medical Association, Croatian Society of Ophthalmology, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Association for diseases of the anter ior ocular segment, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.