Mislav Malić, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Mislav Malić joined the team of St. Catherine Specialty Hospital in early 2022.
Dr. Mislav Malić graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb in 2013, where he was awarded the Dean's Award for the best student in the final year of study. He did his internship at the Department for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at the Clinical hospital Dubrava. In 2015, he began his specialization in otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery at the Department for Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases and Head and Neck Surgery of the University Hospital Center "Zagreb". He did part of his specialization at the prestigious Departments in Piacenza and Verona in Italy. He passed the specialist exam in otorhinolaryngology in 2020. In 2022, he passed the European Board Exam in Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (EBEORL-HNS) and earned the title of FEBORL-HNS (Fellow of the European Board of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery. He completed his postgraduate doctoral studies at the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb in 2023.
He trained and actively participated in many international courses and congresses in otorhinolaryngology in Vienna, Salzburg, Dresden, Paris, Milan, Warsaw, Glasgow and elsewhere. His main areas of interest are otology, minimally invasive endoscopic ear and deafness surgery, cranial base surgery including complex operations on auditory nerve tumors, and plastic and reconstructive head and neck surgery. He is a pioneer of endoscopic ear surgery in Croatia, where in 2018 he performed the first such procedure in this area, which marked the beginning of a new era of otology in Croatia.
He has won the Academic Excellence Award, the Best Case Report Award, and the Best Surgical Skills Award in Otology and Temporal Bone Surgery Course of the American Austrian Society and Weill Cornell University, New York in 2021. He is an active member of the European Society of Otology and Neurootology, the European Society of Cranial Base Surgery, the International Working Group on Endoscopic Ear Surgery (IWGESS) and the Croatian Society of Otorhinolaryngology. He is the author of over 10 scientific papers in domestic and international scientific journals.
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