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appointed as a Professor of internal monary disease, respiratory infections, 79
medicine at the Faculty of Medical Scienc- acute and chronic respiratory failure.
es, University of Kragujevac (2006). She From 2020-2022. she was the coordinator contributors
has held several senior positions at the of the COVID-19 departments of UHC
University Clinical Centre Kragujevac, Zagreb. Since 2022, she has been working
including the Director of Clinic for Pul- at the Department for Allergic and Ob-
monary Diseases from 1992 until 2022, structive Diseases. She is a member of the
when she retired. She has been involved ERS Severe Heterogeneous Asthma Re-
in many educational programs covering search Collaboration.
topics including asthma, COPD, and in-
terstitial lung diseases. She has participat- Assoc. Prof. Sanja Popović-Grle, MD, PhD
ed as a guest lecturer at many national
and international conferences through- Sanja Popović-Grle is a Professor of Res-
out her career. She has been involved in piratory Medicine at University of Za-
drafting national guidelines for treatment greb, Croatia, and Chief of Department
of Asthma and COPD in Serbia. Prof. La- for allergic and obstructive lung diseas-
zic has been a member of various medical es at University Hospital Centre Zagreb.
associations including the ERS, CHEST, After obtaining her Doctor of Medicine
ATS, Respiratory Society of Serbia, and degree from the University of Zagreb in
Fellowship American College of Chest 1983., prof. Grle started her professional
Physicians (FCCP). She was active as the career in the central state Pulmonary hos-
National Lead of the Severe Heterogene- pital Jordanovac in Zagreb, as an employ-
ous Asthma Research collaboration, Pa- ee from the Medical faculty, followed ob-
tient-centred (SHARP) ERS Clinical Re- ligatory praxis for 2 years as a GP. Prof.
search from 2019 to 2022. Grle main research interest is in the field
of asthma, allergy, and COPD, especially
Assoc. Prof. Gordana Pavliša, MD, PhD in diagnostic methods and management.
She has published papers in peer-reviewed
Gordana Pavliša, MD, graduated in 1997 journals and book chapters for students,
from the University of Zagreb, School of residents, specialists or patients, and held
Medicine. She is a specialist in internal many educative lectures on the topic. In
medicine (2007), pulmonology (2009) addition to the clinical duties, prof. Grle
and intensive care medicine (2020). In was involved in scientific projects and tri-
2006 she got her PhD degree at the Uni- als. She has been Member of Organizing
versity of Zagreb with the the topic of re- and Scientific Committees of many pro-
search on erythropoietin, angiogenic fac- fessional meetings and congresses.
tors and inflammatory cytokines in severe
hypoxemia in COPD patients. She is a Dina Rnjak, MD
professor of internal medicine at the Uni-
versity of Zagreb, School of Medicine. She was born on the 11th of December
From 2011 to 2022, she was the head of 1989 in Osijek, Croatia. She graduated
the Intensive Care Unit at the Clinic for from the School of Medicine in Osijek in
Respiratory Disease, UHC Zagreb. Her 2014. She has been a specialist in pulmo-
primary area of interest is obstructive pul- nology since 2021 at University Hospital
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