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rs of work experience as a pulmonol-
ogist at Clinical Medical Center Osijek
and as a teacher at the School of Medi-
cine, University of Osijek. She held the
position of head of the Department of
Pulmonology until 2020. She is current-
ly employed at the Osijek Health Center.
Her special area of interest is obstructive
pulmonary diseases. She participated as
the main researcher in numerous clinical
studies, published a large number of sci-
entific and professional papers and is one
of the authors of the Croatian guidelines
for asthma. From the very beginning of
the biological treatment of severe asthma
in Croatia, she participated in the assess-
ment and follow-up of patients with se-
vere asthma and established the Severe
Asthma Team within the Department of
Pulmonology of Clinical Medical Center
Osijek.
Assist. Prof. Sabina Škrgat MD, PhD
Sabina Škrgat, MD, graduated from the
Faculty of Medicine at the University of
Ljubljana (1996). She is a specialist of in-
ternal medicine (2004) and pneumonolo-
gy (2011). She got her PhD degree at the
University of Ljubljana (2009) with the
topic of investigation, related to angiogen-
esis and complement activation in asth-
ma and chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease. Her main clinical work consists
of management of patients with severe
asthma and other obstructive lung diseas-
es. She is an Assistant professor at Medi-
cal Faculty of Ljubljana and she curently
has a leading position in Slovenian Na-
tional recommendations for asthma man-
agement. She is the clinical lead of Se-
vere asthma Clinic at University Medical
Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia. Beside clini-
cal work, she is active in research of severe
asthma by PhD mentoring. She is also 81
the ERS SHARP (Severe Heterogenous
Asthma Research Collaboration) Nation- contributors
al lead. Dr. Škrgat is a member of Slove-
nian Respiratory Society steering com-
mittee and a member of SHARP steering
committee since 2021. She launched the
first Severe asthma forum-joint meeting
of South East Europe which was held in
Bled, Slovenia in 2018.
Anamarija Štajduhar, MD
She was born in 1989 in Zagreb, and
graduated from the School of Medicine,
University of Zagreb in 2014.After grad-
uation, she worked in the family medicine
offices until 2016. She became a pulmo-
nologist in 2021, and she has been work-
ing at the Clinic for Pulmonary Diseases
Jordanovac. Currently she is PhD student
at the Faculty of Medicine, University of
Zagreb, under the mentorship of prof. S.
Popović - Grle. She has been participating
in the implementation of medical studies
in English (School of Medicine, Univer-
sity of Zagreb) since 2023. Her particu-
lar field of interest are obstructive lung
diseases, she is a member of the Croatian
Thoracic Society, the Croatian Pulmonol-
ogy Society, ERS and EAACI as well.