Vanja Slijepčević Saftić
Education
2016 Appointed Assistant Professor for the scientific field of Biomedicine and Health, the area of Clinical Medical Sciences, the Branch of Paediatrics
2016 Acquired the status of a Chief physician
2010 Defended doctoral thesis: “The Influence of Heterozygous Genome on the Secular Height, Intelligence and Menarche”. Medical Faculty of the University of Osijek
2013 International certificate, Medical Education and organisation, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Austrian Foundation, International scholarship
2009 →2013 Completed subspecialisation in child neurology, Clinical hospital “Sestre milosrdnice”
2010 Acquired International certificate, Neurometabolic diseases, Child Hospital of Philadelphia
American Austrian Foundation, International scholarship
2007 – 2007 Training in Pediatric neurology, Child Hospital of Philadelphia, International scholarship
2002 – 2004 Completed Post-graduate education at the Medical Faculty of the University of Osijek, Biomedicine and Health Care
2000 – 2002 Completed specialist post-graduate education in Paediatrics, Clinical Hospital Zagreb
Training
2015 Advanced Forensic Interviewing Training, Zagreb – Linda Cordisco Steele – National Children’s Advocacy Center, Huntsville, AL (SAD)
2013 Certificate educator in Medical education and organisation, American Academy of Pediatrics
2012 Course in neurometabolic diseases
2011 Neuromuscular diseases, course, Croatian Society for Clinical Genetics
2009 Course Hereditary metabolic diseases, theme: Central Nervous System Diseases
2008 Course Advanced Paediatric Life Support
2008 Advanced Course in Neuro-Sonological Diagnostics News
2006 Course Collor Dopler intracranial and extracranial circulation
2005 Tečaj ˝ Brain Academy ˝ – Nova dostignuća u liječenju epilepsije
2004 Course ˝ From clumsiness to cerebral Palsy˝
2003 Course Ultrasonography in Early Detection of the Changes of Brain Structures (in newborns and infants)
2002 Course in acupuncture
Experience and employment
2021→ Director, the Child and Youth Protection Centre of the City of Zagreb
2015→ Chair holder for the course “Neuroscience in social work”, Law School of the University of Zagreb
2014→ Paediatrician, the Child and Youth Protection Centre of the City of Zagreb
2014→ Research assistant at the Medical Faculty of Split, Department of Paediatrics
2014→ Member of the task force to design accreditation standards for neonatology at the Croatian Medical Chamber.
2012→ Lecturer at the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation in Zagreb. Course: Neurological approach to developmental rehabilitation
2009→ Subspecialisation / subspecialist in child neurology
2009→ Neuropaediatrician at the Institute for neonatology, head of the neurology outpatient services
2008→ Following up children at neurodevelopmental risk and children of mothers suffering from addiction
2008 → Specialist paediatrician, Clinical Hospital “Sestre Milosrdnice”, Paediatric Department/ Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
2008 – 2010 Lecturer, Course: Paediatrics with the Basics of Genetics, Midwifery School, Zagreb
2002 – 2008 Paediatrician, Paediatric Department of Clinical Hospital Osijek
1998 – 2002 Paediatric Department of Clinical Hospital Osijek
2003 → Research assistant at the Paediatric Department of Clinical Hospital Osijek, the University of Osijek
2001 → Research assistant in the scientific project No 0219111: Prevention and Treatment of Developmental Disorders in Children, Project Leader Prof. Sc.D. Milivoj Boranić, Croatian Ministry of Health.
2003→ Research assistant in the international project investigating diseases in island populations, Project Leader Prof. Sc.D. Igor Rudan
2012 → Educator of NICEF, Education of employees, Promotion of Breast-Feeding
Publications – Chapters in books
Rudan I; Rudan D; Saftic V; Music Milanovic S; Stevanovic R; Vuletic G et al. Health Status, Specific Diseases and Life Expectancy of the Population Living on Croatian Islands//Populations of Croatian Islands 2001./Smoljanovic, Mladen; Smoljanovic, Ankica; Rudan, Igor (ed.)
Split:Laser plus ltd. Zagreb 2008. pp. 69-83
Professional affiliations
Croatian Paediatric Society
Croatian Society for Childhood Neurology
Academy for Developmental Rehabilitation
Croatian League against Epilepsy
Croatian Society for Acupuncture
Croatian Society for Rare Metabolic Diseases
International League against Epilepsy (ILAE)
Child Disability Organisation
Croatian Society for Clinical Genetics
Croatian Society for Human Genetics
Child Neurology association
European pediatric neurology society
World Federation of Neurology
