IVO BARIĆ

Ivo Barić graduated at School of Medicine, University of Zagreb. In 1992 he further qualified as a pediatrician and obtained Ph.D. degree. Since then his focus of interest have been inherited metabolic diseases. As a fellow he spent twice ten months in Germany, in University Children’s Hospital in Heidelberg and, as Alexander von Humboldt fellow, in University Children’s Hospital in Marburg. He is subspecialist in medical genetics.

He is full professor of pediatrics at University of Zagreb, School of Medicine and head of the Division for Metabolic Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Center Zagreb (Referral Center for Medical Genetics and Metabolic Disease of Children of the Ministry of Health).

Professor Barić has been prinicipal investigator or coordinator for Croatia of several scientific projects and published over 100 peer-reviewed publications. He described as the first author previously unknown inherited deficiency of the S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase. For that work he was awarded with “Horst Bickel-Award” and „Ante Šercer-Award”.

He is council member of the Society for Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and communicating editor in Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. He is member of the European Commission Expert Group on Rare Diseases.

Professor Barić was president of the Croatian Society of Human Genetics and is current president of the Section for metabolic diseases and board member of the Croatian Paediatric Society. He is full member of the Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences and member of the Court of Honour of the Croatian Medical Chamber. He is head of the Committee for Newborn Screening of the Ministry of Health, Republic of Croatia.