Dear friends and colleagues,
It is with great honor and pleasure that we announce our next lecturer, Ivan Rašić, MD, PhD.
Assoc. Professor Ivan Rasic MD, PhD graduated at the Univeritiy of Zagreb School of Medicine in 2007. with summa cum laude. He completed his residency in Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at the Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center and became a consultant in 2013. He attended observational and clinical fellowships in various prestigious departments in the USA, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and Turkey. In March 2017, he completed his Fellowship training in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Head and Neck. He completed his PhD in 2017. at the Postgraduate Department of Biomedicine and Health at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine, titled „ Clinical significance of BORIS and MYC gene expression in hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma“. He was elected as an associate professor at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, University of Zagreb School of Medicine in 2019. He is a full member of the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery (EAFPS), Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), member of Croatian Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery. His fields of particular interest are primary and revision rhinoplasty, thyroid and parathyroid surgery, and is one of the leading experts in ear reconstruction with autologous rib cartilage in the broader region.