Zagreb(萨格勒布)大学中心医院、Zagreb大学医学院内科学系主任,l欧洲动脉粥样硬化学会执行委员会成员,欧洲心血管预防和康复协会(EACPR)科学和指南委员会联合主席,欧洲血脂紊乱管理指南工作组主席
●Zagreb(萨格勒布)大学中心医院、Zagreb大学医学院内科学系主任
●欧洲动脉粥样硬化学会执行委员会成员,欧洲心血管预防和康复协会(EACPR)科学和指南委员会联合主席,欧洲血脂紊乱管理指南工作组主席
●主要研究领域:血脂学、预防心脏病学
Professor Zeljko Reiner was born in 1953 in Zagreb, Croatia and he got his MD, M Sc and PhD degrees at Zagreb University. He was later visiting scientist for several years in USA and Germany and consultant in internal medicine, diabetology and metabolic diseases. Since 2004 he is director of the Zagreb University Hospital Center. Since 1988 he is full professor (tenure) at Medical school, Zagreb University and his main interest for the last 25 years is lipidology and preventive cardiology. For many years he was chairman of the Department of internal medicine at Zagreb University Medical School. He helped in founding the Department for Cardiac Rehabilitation at the University of Rijeka in Croatia where he is also full professor. He is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. He was the founder and still is the president of Croatian Atherosclerosis Society, founder and vice-president of Croatian Obesity Society, founder of Croatian Hypertension Society, chairman of the Epidemiology and prevention committee of the Croatian Cardiac Society and was Secretary general of the Croatian Medical Association – CMA (at the moment he is member of the CMA Board). He was member of the WHO Executive board in Geneva where he was representing Europe, and was chairman of the WHO Tobacco - free Europe Committee. He was also one of the 3 members of the WHO’s “Leon Bernard Prize” committee. From 1993 to 1998 he served as state secretary for health, and from 1998 to 2000 as minister of health of Croatia. Since 2004 he is president of Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences (member since 1990). He is full member of Croatian National Academy of Sciences and Arts (only 20 members) and chairman of its Atherosclerosis Research Committee. He was engaged since 2005 as an expert of the European Commission for the evaluation of proposals received under the 6FP and 7FP for research and technological development in cardiology. He is also president of the National Health Council of Croatia. He was member of the International advisory and/or scientific boards of all European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) and International Atherosclerosis Society (IAS) congresses in the last 15 years, as well as European and World cardiology congresses and an invited lecturer and chairman at many international meetings.
He has a long experience in administration of scientific societies - he was a member of the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) Executive Committee and is a member of the European Joint Prevention Committee for Cardiovascular Diseases for the last 5 years. In the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) at the moment he is a member of the Practice Guidelines Committee and Congress Program Committee (his 3rd term). In the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (EACPR) he is co-chairing the Science and Guidelines Committee and is member of the EACPR Board. He is also one of the authors of the Fourth European Joint Societies’ Guidelines on CVD Prevention in Clinical Medicine, he is a member of the task force for the Fifth European Joint Guidelines for CVD Prevention and is chairing the ESC task force for the European guidelines on the management of dyslipidemias. He is on editorial boards of several journals (Europ J Cardiovasc Prevent Rehabil, Atherosclerosis, Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis etc.) and is reviewer for many journals (Lancet, J Am Coll Nutr, J Cell Biochem, Fundam Clin Pharmacol, Ann Nutr Metab, etc.). He has published many papers, mostly in indexed journals with substantial impact factor, and was editor or coauthor of 18 books. He is acknowledged as one of the leading personalities in the preventive cardiology.