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Nikola Ivaniš

dr. Nikola Ivaniš

Nikola Ivaniš, deputy mayor

Born: Drenovci, Županja commune, 3 January 1956
Croat, lives in Rijeka,
E-mail: nikola.ivanis@rijeka.hr

Work experience:

  • Faculty of Medicine, Osijek, Department of Internal Medicine, History of Medicine and Medical Ethics as Assistant Professor MD, D.Sc., since 7 January 2013,
  • private internist-gastroenterologist (Polyclinic Ivaniš) since 1993,
  • Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka from 1982 to 1993
  • OK SSOH Rijeka from 1980 to 1982 (from 1981 to 1982 as president).

Education:

  • defended his doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka in 2012
  • defended his master thesis at the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka in 1992
  • passed his specialist examination in Internal Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka in 1986
  • took his B Sc degree at the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka in 1979

Other facts tied to education:

  • was awarded the title of Prim. Dr. by a decree issued by the Ministry of Health in 1998
  • took his doctoral degree with the thesis: “The role of the high-frequency mini radial endoluminal probe in the evaluation of expansion of tumour mutations in the digestive tract”
  • performs complete gastroenterology diagnostics, and in Croatian gastroenterology introduced and was the first to implement upper and lower endoscopic ultrasounds
  • organised the First Croatian Symposium on endosonography in gastroenterology
  • additionally specialised in Rijeka, Ljubljana, Munich, Bochum, Berlin and Hamburg, at the most famous gastroenterology Clinics
  • Actively took part in all Croatian congresses on gastroenterology, was invited as a lecturer at numerous European congresses, symposiums, courses and world meetings where he was an active participant
  • published more than 70 summaries and papers in collections of papers and magazines, including those indexed in the Current Contents (CC)
  • is a member of several international medical associations
  • was president of the Health Council of the Primorje – Gorski Kotar County

Political activity:

  • representative of the Alliance of Primorje – Gorski Kotar (PGS) to the Croatian Parliament from 1995 to 2007
  • the first president of RDS (RDS in 1990), later on the president of PGS.
  • served several terms of office as a Rijeka City Council councillor

Foreign languages:
English – fluent

Marital status: married, wife Alis is a doctor of Dental Medicine, has daughter Marija and son Viktor and grandson Vito Paulo

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