Vera Vlahovic-palcevski MD, PhD

Dr. Vlahovic-Palcevski is a specialist and a full professor in Clinical Pharmacology works at the Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka and the University of Rijeka Medical Faculty and Faculty of Health Studies. Her main interests are pharmacoepidemiology and rational drug use with a focus on antimicrobials.

She has been involved in various antimicrobial stewardship activities on the local, national and international levels (designing and conducting antibiotic campaigns, monitoring antibiotic consumption, developing guidelines and policies for antimicrobial drug use, teaching on all levels). Her main research interests are antimicrobial stewardship and antimicrobial consumption. She has served as an external consultant for ECDC and WHO in the field of antimicrobial consumption and stewardship.

She is a member of many national and international professional societies (European Drug Utilization Research Group, International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology, European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, European Study Group on Antibiotic Stewardship, Croatian Committee for Antibiotics Resistance Surveillance, Croatian Academy of Medical Science).