Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Anesthesiology, Milwaukee, Wis, USA
zbosnjak@mcw.edu
Dr Bošnjak is the Director of Laboratory of Cellular Biology, Department of Anesthesiology and Professor of Physiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He received a PhD degree in Physiology also at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Dr Bošnjak is an Editor of Anesthesiology, reviewer for a number of journals, including the American Journal of Physiology, Anesthesia and Analgesia, and a reviewer for the NIH study sections. He is also recipient of several awards, including New Investigator Research Award; B.B. Sankey Anesthesia Advancement Award and Research Career Development Award. Dr Bošnjak is leading a group of basic- and physician-scientists and the studies in his laboratories are coordinated as a major effort to understand the mechanisms by which anesthetics and related drugs modulate cardiac and smooth muscle electrophysiology.
World Life Institute, Waterport, NY, USA
ASAF@compuserve.com
Dr. Duraković completed three subsequent degrees at the University of Zagreb including Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine, 1962, Master of Sciences, 1966, and Doctorate of Medicine, 1968. He completed training in internal medicine, radiology and nuclear medicine at both Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA. In 1988 he functioned as United States Medical Team Leader for the Nuclear Treaty Joint Verification Experiment, Kazakhstan, Soviet Union. Between 1989-1997 he accepted the position of Clinical Chief, Department of Nuclear Medicine at the VA Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, DE, and served during this time as the Vice President of the VA Medical Society. Currently he is a professor in radiology and nuclear medicine at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. He serves as international director of World Life Institute.
Fleischman Unit for the Study of Disability, Loewenstein Hospital/Rehabilitation Center, Raanana, Israel
Dr Eldar was born in Osijek, Croatia, and has been living in Israel since 1949. He is a neurologist with main interest in epidemiology, prevention and rehabilitation of disability, and quality of health care. He is Head of the Fleischman Institute for the Study of Disability at the Loewenstein Rehabilitation Center. He has a number of scientific publications, and has actively participated as invited lecturer or session chairperson at many international conferences, has taught at institutions outside of Israel, and has frequently acted as consultant to WHO/Europe in the organization of rehabilitation and in the care of the elderly and epidemiology of disability. He is Honorary Member of the Croatian Medical Association and the Croatian Society for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and of Eurorehabilitation.
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
EJHuth@aol.com
Dr Huth received his MD at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1947. He went on to an internship and a residency in internal medicine at the University's Hospital. His research there was on renal acid-excretion, potassium deficiency, and metabolic changes in anorexia nervosa. For 19 years (1971-1990) he served as the full-time Editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine. He then became the editor of an electronic journal, The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials (1991-1994). His main contributions on scientific publishing are two books, “Medical Style and Format” and “Writing and Publishing in Medicine”. He was a founding member (1979) of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. In 1990 he began work with a Council of Biology Editors committee on the style manual published in 1994 as “Scientific Style and Format”. His latest book, “Medicine in Quotations”, was published in 1999.
Department of Histology and Embryology, Rijeka University School of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia
Stipan.Jonjic@medri.hr
Dr Jonjiæ received his MD in 1977 and PhD in 1985 at the Rijeka University School of Medicine. His field of work is viral pathogenesis and immune control. His main scientific achievements include the elucidation of the role of CD4 and CD8 T cell subsets and antiviral antibodies in the control of acute and latent cytomegalovirus infection. Since 1995 he has been a member of the National Scientific Council of Croatia. He is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Histology and Embryology, and, since 1999, the Dean of the Rijeka University School of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia.
Division of Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Michigan, USA
SJULIUS@medmail.med.umich.edu
Dr Julius, a graduate of the Medical School of the University of Zagreb, Croatia, is a Professor of Internal Medicine and Physiology, and the Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of Hypertension at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he has been on the faculty for over thirty years. His research is in the pathophysiology of hypertension with emphasis on the role of the nervous system. The Ann Arbor program, under his supervision, trained over 50 specialists in hypertension, many of whom have become internationally recognized leaders in numerous countries in the world. Most recently, the International Society of Hypertension has honored him by establishing the “Stevo Julius Award for Excellence in Hypertension Education” which will be bestowed to a distinguished person during the Society's regular meetings.
Department of Psychological Medicine, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
nina.canki-klain@zg.tel.hr
Dr Klain is a Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Zagreb Medical School. He is the President of the Croatian Institute of Group Analysis. He is a psychiatrist, group analyst, psychoanalyst, and a member of International Psychoanalytic Association. He heads Polyclinics for Psychotherapy at the Department for Psychological Medicine of the Zagreb University School of Medicine and University Hospital Center Rebro. He focused his work on psychoanalysis – supervision and training analysis, and group analysis – treatment and education. During the 1991-1992 war in Croatia, he created, established, and headed the Headquarters for Psychologic Aspects of War at the War Headquarters of Croatian Ministry of Health Care. His present field of work is posttraumatic stress disorder.
Anaesthesia Research, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Krnjevic@med.mcgill.ca
Dr Krnjević received MBChB in medicine in 1949, BSc (Hons) in physiology in 1951, and PhD in neurophysiology in 1953, all at the Edinburgh University (Scotland). Since 1995 he has been Associate Member, Anesthesiology Department, McGill University. From 1972 to 1978 he was Chief Editor of the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. He published 600 papers, especially on mechanisms of communication between brain cells (transmitters at excitatory and inhibitory synapses), control of neuronal excitability by internal Ca2+, and cellular mechanisms by which anaesthetics, oxygen, or glucose lack affect brain function. He is one of “The l,000 Most-Cited Contemporary Authors” (Current Contents, l982). Three of his papers have been rated “Citation Classics”.
Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Rebro, and School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
hr.leuk.limf@leuk.hr
Dr Labar graduated from the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 1970, and obtained his PhD degree in 1982. His research area is hematology, acute leukemia and lymphoma, with focus on intensive chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation. His research team has organized and introduced into clinical practice the bone marrow stem cell transplantation, both allogeneic and autologous. It is presently developing so-called mini-transplants and routine monitoring of minimal residual disease after stem cell transplantation. Dr Labar’s team was the first (1989) to perform umbilical cord transplantation for a patient with Ph+ myelogenous leukemia. They also showed that anxious state may influence the incidence and severity of the graft-versus-host reaction.
London School of Medicine, University of London, Keppel Street, London WC1W 7HT.
mckee@lshtm.ac.uk
Dr McKee is the Professor of European Public Health at European Center on Health of Societies in Transition. His work encompasses applied and methodological health services research, research on health care reform, and on the determinants of health at a population level. Much of his work focuses on Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, where he has contributed to a clearer understanding of the contribution that alcohol and, in particular, binge drinking, has made to the crisis in adult mortality.
Stjepan
Oreskovic. PhD.
University of Zagreb School of Medicine, A. Stampar School of Public Health,
Rockefellerova 4, Zagreb
Stipe Oreskovic is professor at Andrija Stampar School of Public Health. His work encompasses research of health behavior, health services and health promotion. He was or still is inovolved in projects of heath care reforms as director (Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, the World Bank Health System Project, International Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, HIT Dubrovnik School) adviser (World Health Organization, European Commision) educator (PhD LMHS Program in Health Services Management, International program in Second generation HIV Surveillance) or ground level public health activst (anti-smoking and healthy diet campaigns). He is recenty involved in media management as CEO of communication and content creation company.
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
alp@pharma.mcgill.ca
Dr Padjen was born and educated in Zagreb (MD, 1966; DSc, 1970), studied in Edinburgh, Scotland and NIH, Washington, DC (Visiting Scientist, 1971-1976). Since 1976 he is at the McGill University, currently Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Director of CAI Unit and Member of Alcohol Research Program at the Douglas Hospital. His research interests and contributions range from cellular neurophysiology (mechanism of synaptic transmission, especially the role of GABA in presynaptic inhibition, conduction of signals in myelinated nerves; role of cytoskeleton in regulation of neuronal functions, with applications in understanding neuropathology, such as mechanism of neuropathies in diabetes and ALS), to alcoholism and medical informatics. His other interests are music (he is the founder of I medici di McGill Orchestra) and social studies in science.
Institute for Virology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Matthias.Reddehase@uni-mainz.de
Dr Reddehase is University Professor and Head of the Institute for Virology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. His field of work is cytomegalovirus pathogenesis, latency, and immune control. His scientific achievements include the elucidation of the role of immediate-early genes in the immune response to cytomegalovirus, adoptive cyto- immunotherapy of cytomegalovirus infection in the murine model, and gene expression during cytomegalovirus latency and reactivation. Since May 1999 he has been Member of the Senate's Committee of the German Research Community.
Željko Reiner, MD, PhD, FRCP, FESC
Division of Metabolic Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Center Zagreb and School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
zreiner@kbc-zagreb.hr
Dr Reiner got his MD and PhD degrees at Zagreb University. Since 1988 he is
full professor (tenure) at Zagreb university and his main interests are
lipidology, pathophysiology of atherosclerosis - particularly the effects
of sex hormones on atherogenesis, preventive cardiology, and clinical
pharmacology. He was the founder and still is the president of Croatian
Atherosclerosis Society, founder and vice-president of Croatian Obesity
Society, founder of Croatian Hypertension Society and was Secretary general
of the Croatian Medical Association. He was member of the WHO Executive
board in Geneva, and chairman of the WHO Tobacco - free Europe Committee. He
is president of Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences, full member of
Croatian national academy of sciences and arts and chairman of it’s
Atherosclerosis Research Committee. He is also member of the Congress
Program Committee of the European Society of Cardiology, member of the
European Atherosclerosis Society Executive Committee, European Joint
Prevention Committee for Cardiovascular Diseases, Fourth Joint Societies’
Task Force on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Medicine
(Guidelines committee) and is on editorial boards of several journals
(Atherosclerosis, Europ J Cardiovasc Prevent Rehabil etc.).
Norman Sartorius, M.D., P.M., Ph.D., FRC. Psych.
Professor Norman Sartorius was Director of the Mental Health Division of the World Health Organization 1977-1993, Vice President and President of the World Psychiatric Association 1993-1999 and President of the Association of European Psychiatrists 200-2002. He is the author of more than 300 papers in peer reviewed journals and author, coauthor or editor of more than 60 books. He holds numerous honorary appointments and three honorary doctorates (in Umea, Sweden., Bath, UK and Prague, Czech Republic).
Respiratory Care Department, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA
nschachter@smtplink.mssm.edu
Dr Schachter is currently a chaired Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Director of the Respiratory Care Department of the Mount Sinai Hospital. He trained originally at the Columbia University and the New York University School of Medicine from which he received his MD in 1968. He served in the US Navy for two years as a medical Officer and the Director of the Chest Service at the St. Albans Naval Hospital in New York. He went on to take specialty training in pulmonary medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine where he trained with the late Arend Bouhuys. He has a longstanding interest in occupational and environmental lung problems and has testified before many National Committees on issues relating to respiratory health and the environment.
Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
hjseitz@uke.uni-hamburg.de
Dr Seitz is the Head of the Department for Biochemistry and Endocrinology, Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg. His research areas are liver and organ metabolism, hormonal regulation of metabolism, and hormone action at the molecular level. He teaches medical students in all fields of biochemistry, endocrinology, metabolism, and nutrition. He has organized a number of courses for physicians in the field of nutrition, metabolism, and endocrinology in Germany, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has coordinated the scientific and medical cooperation between the University of Hamburg and Zagreb (since 1986) and Sarajevo (since 1996). He is the Member of the Executive Committee of Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik for advanced postgraduate studies for all scientists.
Max-Planck Institut of Immunbiology, Freiburg, Germany
solter@immunobio.mpg.de
Dr Solter obtained his MD (1965), and PhD (1971) from the Zagreb University School of Medicine, Croatia. In 1991 he was appointed Director of the Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology in Freiburg. He is currently European Editor of the Genes & Development and a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, EMBO, and Academia Europea. In 1998 he received March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology for pioneering the concept of imprinting. Dr Solter contributed significantly to many areas of mammalian developmental biology, namely: differentiation of germ layers, role of cell surface molecules in regulating early development, biology and genetics of teratocarcinoma, biology of embryonic stem cells, and imprinting and cloning. His current research interest focuses on genetic and molecular control of genome reprogramming and of activation of embryonic genome.
Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Marko.Turina@chi.usz.ch
Dr Turina received his MD at the Zagreb Medical School in 1961. He was surgical resident in Flawil and in Zurich, Switzerland (1962-1965). From 1969 until 1976 he was Assistant Research Surgeon, University of California in San Diego, CA, USA; Visiting Fellow in Surgery in Birmingham, AL, USA; resident, Department of Surgery, University of Zurich; and staff member, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Zurich. In 1976 he became the Head of the Division of Experimental Surgery at the University Hospital Zurich, in 1977 the Professor of Clinical and Experimental Cardiac Surgery, and in 1982 a Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery. Since 1985 he is Professor and Director of the Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Zurich. He was the Dean of the Medical Faculty, University of Zurich (1996-1998). He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery since 1993.
National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
jaakko.tuomilehto@ktl.fi
Dr Tuomilehto received his MD from the University of Turku, Finland in 1973 and MPolSc. (Sociology, Statistics, Psychology) from the same University in 1975. In the same year he received his PhD in Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Kuopio, Finland. In 1980 he became Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Turku, Finland. Presently, he is the Professor of Community Medicine at the University of Kuopio, senior researcher at the National Public Health Institute of Finland, and medical officer of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Western Pacific. His research fields are epidemiology and prevention of diabetes and hypertension, but also health insurance, health in developing countries, and primary health care teaching.
Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Medical Science Building, Toronto, Canada
mladen.vranic@utoronto.ca
Dr Vranić obtained F.R.C.P.(C) from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; Honorary MD from Karolinska Institute, Sweden; and FRSC from the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current positions are: Professor and past Chairman, Department of Physiology and Professor of Medicine (University of Toronto); Adjunct Professor of Medicine (University of Zagreb & Karolinska Institute, Stockholm); Member, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism and Institute of Medical Science; Member, Banting and Best Diabetes Centre Executive Committee; Director, C.H. Best Foundation. His research interests are diabetes and endocrinology, from which he extensively published.