prim. prof. dr. sc. Milan Stanojević dr. med.

Education and scientific advancement

He enrolled in the study of medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zagreb in 1972, and continued his medical education in 1974 at the Medical Academy in Warsaw, Poland, where he graduated in 1979. He has been a pediatric specialist since 1987, a primarius since 2004, and a neonatologist subspecialist since 2007. He received his master's degree in 1991 (medicine and biology) and his doctorate in 2006 (medicine and biology). Since 2007 he has been a research associate, and since 2013 a senior research associate. Since 2011 he has been an associate professor at DIU Libertas International University and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb.

Work experience

He worked as a pediatrician from 1987 to 2000 at the General Hospital "Dr. Tomislav Bardek ”in Koprivnica, where he has been the head of the Neonatology Department since 1992. Since 2000, he has been working at the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Clinical Hospital "Sveti Duh", where he has been the head of the Department of Neonatology since 2007.

Associations and projects

He was a member of the international non-governmental organization IBFAN, which operated in Croatia as the Croatian Breastfeeding Support Association, and which led the project to monitor the implementation of the International Regulation on Marketing and Sale of Breastmilk Substitutes by UNICEF and the World Health Organization in Croatia. He implemented the project "Hospital, maternity hospital - a friend of children" at the General Hospital Koprivnica, which in 1996 became a hospital - a friend of children. He led the same project in the Clinical Hospital "St. Duh "which in 2007 acquired the status of" Maternity ward - a friend of children ". Within the UNICEF office for Croatia, he has been the national coordinator for education within the same project since 2008. He introduced the European registry for monitoring congenital malformations EUROCAT in the General Hospital Koprivnica. He is an honorary member of the NGO RODA, one of the founders of the NGO Parents of Premature Infants "Palčići" and the Croatian Association for Hearing Impairment, which began a pilot project of screening newborns for hearing impairment at the General Hospital "St. Spirit ”, which later became a mandatory health care measure for all newborns in maternity hospitals.

Published papers

So far, he has published 120 papers in domestic and international journals, 147 conference papers and 43 book chapters. He is the editor of five books, he published popular articles in the magazine "Bebe".

Participation in the work of companies

He is a member of the Croatian Medical Association, the Croatian Society of Perinatal Medicine, whose board of directors he is, vice president of the Neonatology Section of the Croatian Society of Perinatal Medicine, a member of the Croatian Pediatric Society, the Croatian Society of Social and Preventive Pediatrics. has been Secretary General, Vice President, President-elect and President from 2015 to the present. He is a full member of the International Academy of Perinatal Medicine and a board member of the Fetus International Association as a patient. Since 2014, he has been a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.