Biography

graduated in 2003 at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka. He did his internship for medical doctors at Pula General Hospital. After passing the professional exam in 2005. He worked at General Practice Office. In 2006, he started to work at the Pula General Hospital as a Pediatric resident. He passed the pediatric specialist exam in 2010. Two years later he began his training in neonatology (subspecialty) and passed the neonatology subspecialist exam in 2014. That same year, he was elected Head of the Neonatology Division in the Department of Pediatrics, Pula General Hospital. He performed this duty until the end of 2018. In addition to working in the Neonatology Division, he also worked in the Pediatric Department. He also performed brain ultrasound (neurosonography) and was involved in follow up of the neurodevelopment of infants and children. In mid-2019, He stopped working at the Pula General Hospital to devote himself to a doctoral thesis. He defended his PhD thesis in early December 2019. The topic of the doctoral thesis was "The relationship between histologic chorioamnionitis and decidual macrophage polarization and their influence on outcomes of neonates born before the 32nd gestational week“. He currently works as a lecturer at the Medical Faculty of Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. He is involved in teaching Anatomy, Physiology and Pediatrics. He also theaches Preschool Child Health Care at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the same University. He works as a lecturer at the Alma Mater Europaea University in Slovenia where he teaches Physiotherapists in Italian language (Courses: Pediatrics, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Psychiatry and Rehabilitation Medicine). In 2020, he began to work as a teacher in Italian high school in Rovinj where he teaches Anatomy, Physiology, Pathophisiology, Clinical Medicine and Social Medicine in Italian language.