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University Hospital Centre Zagreb and School of Medicine, Zagreb
Department of Dermatology and Venereology
Šalata 4, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Head: Professor Jasna Lipozenčić, MD, PhD
Phone: +385 (0)1 2368 915
Fax: +385 (0)1 4920 014; +385-(0)1 2368 901
The Department of Dermatology and Venereology, founded on December 9, 1928, is the leading medical, scientific and educational dermatovenereological institution in
Croatia. The first head of the Department was the world famous dermatovenereologist Academician Franjo Kogoj. Since then the Hospital Department also holds the University Department of Dematovenereology (founded in 1923) of the Zagreb School of Medicine. Today, different educational programs are performed within the Department – undergraduate and postgraduate studies of the University of Zagreb Medical School, as well as different programs of continuous education for medical doctors and other professionals in the field of dermatology and venereology.
The Editorial Office and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Acta Dermatovenerologica Croatia (SCIE) are located at the Department as well.
Structure
Inpatient clinic
This unit is divided into 3 clinical subunits with a capacity of 61 beds. Adults and children with different skin and venereal diseases, e.g. psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, autoimmune skin diseases, urticaria, chronic venous insufficiency, skin cancers and lymphoma, etc. are hospitalized here.
Outpatient clinic
In the outpatient unit there are 14 subunits, one centre and 3 laboratories covering different fields of Dermatology and Venereology:
Unit for General Dematovenereology
Unit for Pediatric Dermatovenereology
Unit for Phlebology
Unit for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) of the Skin
Unit for Dermatosurgery
Unit for Tumor Skin Lesions
Unit for Photodermatology
Unit for Dermatooncology and Radiotherapy
Unit for Medical Cosmetology and Corrective Interventions
Unit for Trichology
Unit for Dermoscopy
Unit for Autoimmune Skin Diseases
Unit for Immunology, Allergology and Professional Skin Diseases
Unit for Allergy Testing
Centre for Laser Therapy in Cosmetic Dermatology (Cosmetology)
Laboratory for Dermatologic Mycology and Parasitology
Laboratory for Clinical Immunology, Immunofluorescence and Serologic Diagnostic
Laboratory for Dermatohistopathology
In the Department there are six Referral centres of the Croatian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare: for Contact Allergy; for Diagnosis of Syphilis and Lyme Disease; for Dermatologic Mycology and Parasitology; for Photodermatology; for Dermatologic Oncology, and for Hereditary Bullous Epidermolysis.
Last updated: sep 30, 2009.
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