Adolescentna medicina: 3. in 4. modul

Prof.emerita, dr. dr. h. c. Dušanka Mičetić-Turk, Ph.D. med., senior councilor, is the founder of pediatric gastroenterology at the Maribor Pediatric Clinic and for many years the leading pediatric gastroenterologist in Slovenia. She trained professionally at pediatric clinics in Belgrade, Zagreb, Leiden, A msterdam, G raz, L ondon a nd N ew Y ork. I n parallel w ith h er c linical w ork, s he w as very intensively involved in research in the field of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition, as well as probiotics and intestinal microbiota. From 1997 to 2007, she was the dean of the College of Health Sciences, which under her leadership was transformed into the Faculty of Health Sciences in 2003. Since the establishment of the UM MF, she is the head of the Department of Pediatrics and since 2018 she is acting as Vice Dean for Dental Medicine. She is the founder and head of the Institute for Adolescent Medicine and Preventive Pediatrics of the MF UM.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: dusanka.micetic@um.si

Bernarda Vogrin PhD; is a specialist in paediatrics, employed at the Pedenjped Outpatient Clinic for children and schoolchildren in Lenart, Slovenske Gorice, and at the Faculty of Medicine, Maribor. The focus of her research and clinical work is preventive health care for children and adolescents. She is particularly interested in the early detection and prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases with an emphasis on the prevention of obesity and cardiovascular diseases. Actively cooperates with the National Institute of Public Health in the creation of national guidelines for the implementation of preventive health care for children and adolescents. She is active in the European Association for School and University Medicine and Health (EUSUHM). She is a member of the Multidisciplinary Committee for Adolescent Medicine at UEMS. She completed the international school of adolescent medicine in Switzerland. She is the co-founder of the Institute for Adolescent Medicine and Preventive Pediatrics, MFMB.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: bernarda.vogrin1@um.si