Robert Likic

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About Robert Likic

Dr Likic qualified in Medicine with honors in Zagreb in 2001, after receiving the Dean’s award for the best student of medicine in Following internship, he trained in general internal medicine at the University Hospital Zagreb and simultaneously developed an interest in the effectiveness of problem based learning applied to the teaching of clinical pharmacology. He became board certified in internal medicine in 2007 and was awarded a PhD degree in 2008. He currently works as an associate professor at the Zagreb Medical School and as a consultant internist at the University Hospital Zagreb and continues to have an active research interest into the effectiveness of medical education both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels while also conducting research in health outcomes measures, medical informatics as well as rational use of antibiotics. Dr.Likic has had significant success in international collaboration with funding secured from the British Council to organize a multinational meeting in Zagreb in 2008 on rational use of medicines and he also received the Matovinovic fellowship award in 2009 which allowed him to spend 6 months working as a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor). His interest in informatics led him to play a pivotal role in introduction of voice over internet protocol (VOIP) based telephony systems both at Zagreb and Ann Arbor medical schools. Dr.Likic is a member of several national drug committees as well as a member of the committee for education of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT) and a councilor to the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR). He received the “Outstanding Early Educator Award” at the 16th IUPHAR World congress of basic and clinical pharmacology held in 2010 in Copenhagen (Denmark).