Dear colleagues,
we proudly present another one of our fantastic lecturers - assistant professor Marija Gomerčić Palčić, MD, PhD. She is a specialist in internal medicine with a subspecialty in pulmonology as well as the head of the Department of pulmonology in “Sisters of Mercy” Clinical Hospital.
For this year’s CROSS she will be presenting on the topic “Impact of life event stress on patients with COPD”. Anxiety and depression are more common in patients with COPD than in the general population and are usually underdiagnosed comorbidities in COPD. It was shown that elevated levels of psychological distress are related to more frequent and longer hospitalizations for exacerbations among COPD patients.
Assistant professor Marija Gomerčić Palčić, MD, PhD is a specialist in internal medicine with a subspecialty in pulmonology. She graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb. Since 2022. she is the head of the Department of pulmonology in Clinical Hospital Centre "Sisters of Mercy" in Zagreb. From 2008. to 2015. she worked as a scientific assistant on the project "Research into non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the context of metabolic syndrome". In the meantime she started her residency in internal medicine. Although her primary interest was in hepatology and gastroenterology, she later changed to pulmonology. In 2018. after finishing her subspecialisation, she became head of the Diagnostic and interventional pulmonology clinic. From 2019. onwards she has been the head of the "COVID-19 centre" in Clinical Hospital Centre "Sisters of Mercy". She is a member of several domestic and international physician societies, reviewer for a journal and an author or co-author of 10 scientific articles published in indexed journals.
If you want to know more about this public health problem and how to solve it, join us in Zagreb from 25th to 28th of April. We look forward to seeing you all!
Your CROSS team