About
Svetlana was born in Osijek, Croatia and finished the Medical faculty at the University of Zagreb (1992-1998). She started to work at the University Hospital Centre Osijek in 2002, first as a resident of neurology, and from 2006 as a specialist of neurology. She finished her Ph.D. thesis in 2012 in the field of neurodegenerative disease on the topic “Correlation between cognitive impairment and severity of motor symptoms in Parkinson`s disease patients”.
In 2013, she became Assistant Professor at the Faculty of medicine of the University of Osijek.
She is founder and president of the patient association for Parkinson’s disease called “Awakening” in Osijek since 2013. In 2016, she became head of the Department for neurodegenerative and neuromuscular disease at the University Hospital Centre Osijek and still holds that position. In 2019, Svetlana became subspecialist of neurodegenerative diseases. From 2021 onwards, she is a member of the management group in the scientific panel for dementia and cognitive disorders of the European Academy of Neurology, and from 2022 she is co-chair in the same panel.
Svetlana has great experience as principal investigator and sub-investigator in many clinical trials in the field of the neurology. She is author of 33 publications, 2 manuals for Parkinson’s disease and 3 book chapters, has been mentor of 30 student’s graduation theses and 3 Ph.D. theses.
Declaration of interest: received honoraria from Medis Adria d.o.o, Pliva Teva d.o.o., Abbvie d.o.o, Stada, Makpharm d.o.o, Salveo d.o.o, Novartis and Carso pharm.