We are introducing prof. Rajko Kušec, M.D., Ph.D.

Prof. Rajko Kušec, M.D., Ph.D., specialist in internal medicine and subspecialist in hematology

Prof. Rajko Kušec, M.D., Ph.D. joined the team of the Center for Hematology of St. Catherine Specialty Hospital at the end of 2022

After graduating from School of Medicine University of Zagreb and residency in internal medicine at Clinical Hospital Merkur, he was board certified as specialist in internal medicine in 1990. After postgraduate studies in hematology at the Medical University of Vienna, where he is visiting professor, he joined molecular hematology research group at Nuffield Division of Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NDCLS) at University of Oxford.

Professor Kušec is the president of Croatian Society of Hematology of Croatian Medical Association and member/board member of several distinguished national and international associations and hematology working groups (e.g. CROHEM, CEMPO, SWG MPN-EHA, EHOG).

He has published 178 scientific and professional papers cited over 2200 times.

Apart from general clinical hematology, prof. Kušec is particularly interested in disorders presenting with cytopenia (low leukocytes, platelets or anaemia) and myeloproliferative disorders characterised by leucocytosis, erythrocytosis or thrombocytosis.