Alan Ivkovic MD, PhD

Dr. Alan Ivkovic graduated from the School of Medicine in Zagreb in 1999. His residency in orthopaedic surgery started in 2002, and he passed the specialist exam in 2007. He obtained a PhD degree in biomedical sciences in 2009, and the topic of his thesis was the application of gene therapy in articular cartilage repair. Currently, he is a consultant orthopedic surgeon at the University Hospital Sveti Duh in Zagreb. He is also an assistant professor at the Department of Biotechnology, University of Rijeka, where he teaches regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. He also has academic affiliations with the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, and withthe  Faculty of Applied Health Sciences in Zagreb.

He authored numerous scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals, as well as numerous chapters in books and encyclopedias. As an International Fulbright Fellow, he spent the academic year 2007/2008 in the Center for Molecular Orthopaedics at Harvard University in Boston, USA. He is a recipient of numerous domestic and international fellowships and awards. During his career, he visited numerous international teaching institutions and participated in various courses, including those in Boston, Chicago, Amsterdam, Freiburg, Munich, Barcelona, Milano, and Basel. His professional focus is adult lower extremity reconstructive surgery (including joint replacement and soft tissue surgery), as well as bone and cartilage tissue engineering.

He is a team leader of the Croatian partner in the international consortium withinthe  EU FP7 project BIO-COMET (Bioreactor-based, clinically oriented engineering of tissues) and HORIZON 2020 project BIO-CHIP (Bioengineered grafts for cartilage healing in patients). He is a board member of the Croatian Orthopaedic Society and the national EBOT (European Board of Orthopaedic Surgery) delegate. As an official physician of the Croatian Water Polo Federation, he participated in the 2012 London Olympic Games (gold medalist), the European Championships in Zagreb 2010 (gold medalist), and the World Championships in Melbourne 2007 (gold medalist).