My CV

Professional Summary:
Licensed medical doctor since 2020 and board-certified in psychiatry through the European Board Exam (2025), with a multidisciplinary foundation in psychiatry, analytical psychology, and public health. My work focuses on the development of community mental health services and the integration of research into practice, with a particular interest in advancing evidence-based, stigma-reducing approaches. I contribute to academic and clinical collaborations aimed at improving mental health outcomes for men, students, and professionals in caregiving roles. With experience in public speaking, analysis, and project coordination, I support knowledge-sharing and the ongoing development of sustainable mental health systems.

Personal Information:

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Croatian
  • Languages: Native in Croatian, fluent in English and basic knowledge in Swedish, Italian and German.

Educational Qualifications:

    • European psychiatry board exam
  • Institution: European Psychiatric Association (EPA), the UEMS-Psychiatry Section (UEMS-PS), European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT).
    • Completed February 2025
  • Medical Degree:
    • Degree Title: Medical Doctor
    • Institution: School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    • Graduation Year: 2020
    • Master thesis and Mentor: “Risk behaviour of medical students from 2008/2009 to 2018/2019”; Assistant professor Marjeta Majer, PhD. 
  • Postgraduate Training and Certifications:
    • 2021: European Training Consortium in Public Health and Health Promotion (ETC-PHHP)
      • Institution: Medical University of Lodz
      • Qualification: Certificate (5 ECTS)
    • 2022/2023: Postgraduate Specialist Study in Psychiatry
      • Institution: School of Medicine, Zagreb
      • Qualification: Certificate (60 ECTS)
    • 2023–Present: Jungian Analytical Psychology Training
      • Institution: IAAP
      • Status: Ongoing

Previous Work Experience

2021 – II/2025: Croatian Institute of Public Health – Department of Mental Health :

  • February 2025: Developing and writing protocol for implementation of mental health policies for the Croatian ministry of health. 
  • Project: Joint Action ImpleMENTAL (2021–2024)
    • Collaborated with a consortium of 21 European countries on implementing mental health reforms and suicide prevention practices.
  • October 2024: WHO Focal Point for Alcohol
    • Represented Croatia at the EVID-ACTION Member States Focal Point Network meeting in Lisbon, Portugal.  
  • As a Psychiatry Trainee, I completed rotations across various in-patient wards, including acute and chronic psychotic patients, the psychotherapy department, psychosocial interventions, substance abuse, old age psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and public mental health.
  • Jungian Analytical Psychology Training:
    • Worked with long-term psychotherapy clients for two years as part of the Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy Router Program.

Additional Professional Experience:

  • 2018–2020: Transplantation Coordinator for the Eurotransplant Program (part-time)
    • Provided logistical support to medical staff, law enforcement, and transportation teams.
    • Managed documentation for transplantation procedures.
  • August 2020 – February 2021: General Practitioner for Médecins du Monde
    • Worked at a reception center for asylum seekers in Zagreb, conducting medical consultations and managing quarantine protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Management and Leadership Skills:

  • Crisis Management and Logistics:
    • Project: Psychological Assistance for Displaced Persons (April–July 2022)
      • Organized mobile teams to provide psychological first aid to war-displaced individuals from Ukraine in Zagreb.
    • Project: Mental Health Support in Earthquake-Affected Areas (May–August 2021)
      • Led outreach teams delivering psychological aid to residents displaced by the 2020 Petrinja earthquake.   
    • Project: Organized and distributed protective equipment for Zagreb’s homeless population during the COVID-19 pandemic in collaboration with the Croatian Network for the Homeless and the “Solidarna” Foundation.  (February–May 2020)

Student Projects and Volunteering:

Student Section for Public Health “Andrija Štampar”:

  • 2017/2018: Founder and Secretary
  • 2018/2019: Vice President
  • 2019/2020: President
  • U3 Group Coordinator:
    • Coordinated activities involving medical students, young doctors, and professors, as well as other interdisciplinary professionals (pharmacists, sociologists, nurses, etc.), to promote paresis awareness in healthcare.
    • Organized presentations, discussions, and workshops across Zagreb and other regions of Croatia (Sisak, Koprivnica, Karlovac, Dubrovnik).
  • [November 2019]: Conducted a workshop on “Nursing and Digitalization” for first-year nursing students, organized by the Student Section for Public Health “Andrija Štampar” at the University of Dubrovnik.
  • [September 2019]: Organized “Mobility Games” in collaboration with the Association of the Physically Disabled Zagreb, raising awareness of the challenges faced by people with disabilities.
  • [March 2019]: Delivered a presentation at the “Fifth Philosophical Café” based on Michael J. Sandel’s book Justice, organized by the U3 group in Koprivnica, Croatia.
  • [March 2019]: Presented on the theme “U3 Interregnum in Healthcare,” inspired by Atul Gawande’s Transience, as part of the Festival of Health in Karlovac and Zagreb.
  • [February 2019]: Presented “U3 Interregnum in Healthcare” at PUB HUB workshops, based on Atul Gawande’s Better Medicine, in Sisak.
  • [January 2019]: Organized the forum “Migrants in Croatia – Care, Health, and Wider Social Aspects” to educate students about the healthcare challenges faced by migrants.
  • Volunteering [March 2015–August 2016]:
    • Volunteered at the “Ksaver” Home for the Elderly and Infirm, Zagreb.
    • Supported patients at the Croatian Association for Alzheimer’s Disease, Zagreb.
    • Provided assistance at the Rehabilitation Center “Fortica,” Kraljevica.

Awards

  •  [ 2023 ]AMAC UK 2023 award for the project of comparing mental health services in North and South London.
  • [ 1/6/2019 ] MIND & BRAIN – 59th International Neuropsychiatric Congress
  • 3rd prize for the best poster MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN MEDICAL STUDENTS. Filip Mustač, Marjeta Majer, Roberto Mužić, Vesna Jureša, Vera Musil University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, Department of Social Medicine and Organization of Healthcare, Zagreb, Croatia
  • [2018]School of Medicine – Special dean award ” Pitaj Andriju” (eng. ask Andrija)- the first Croatian public health portal intended for students
  • [12/2018] Project Alliance4Life and Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb
  • Honorary Award for Outstanding Contribution for the third Alliance4Life

Publications

  1. Mužić R, Žegrec A, Štimac Grbić D. Re-building the Network: Mental Health System Reform in Croatia. Croat Med J. 2024 Feb 29;65(1):65-67. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2024.65.65. PMID: 38433514; PMCID: PMC10915773.
  2. Handanagic S, Mužić R, Božičević I, Orešković S. Projected All-Cause Deaths Attributable to COVID-19-Related Unemployment in Croatia in 2020. Public Health. 2022; Volume 208, Pages 40-45. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2022.04.004.
  3. Medved S, Imširagić AS, Salopek I, Puljić D, Handl H, Kovač M, Peleš AM, Štimac Grbić D, Romančuk L, Mužić R, Zeeman LS, Kuzman MR. Case Series: Managing Severe Mental Illness in Disaster Situations: The Croatian Experience After the 2020 Earthquake. Front Psychiatry. 2022 Feb 2;12:795661. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.795661.ž 
  4. D Štimac Grbić, S Štrkalj Ivezić, A Ištvanović, R Mužić, Community mental health care in Croatia: Mobile team for psychosocial support in the community, European Journal of Public Health, Volume 34, Issue Supplement_3, November 2024, ckae144.657, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae144.657
  5. M Majer, R Mužić, V Musil, A Štajduhar, V Jureša, Trend of substance abuse among medical students at University of Zagreb from 2008/2009 to 2018/2019, European Journal of Public Health, Volume 31, Issue Supplement_3, October 2021, ckab164.782, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab164.782
  6. M Majer, B Puškarić Saić, V Musil, R Mužić, N Pjevač, V Jureša, Sexual behaviour and attitudes among university students in Zagreb, European Journal of Public Health, Volume 29, Issue Supplement_4, November 2019, ckz186.164, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckz186.164
  7. M Majer, V Jureša, B Puškarić Saić, V Musil, R Mužić, Substance abuse among university students in Zagreb, European Journal of Public Health, Volume 28, Issue suppl_4, November 2018, cky218.227, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/cky218.227

Presentations

  • Jung and Eating Disorders, Center for Eating Disorders “BEA,” Zagreb, October 2024.
  • Jung and Eating Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb, July 2024.
  • Puer Aeternus, Department of Psychiatry, Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb, June 2024.
  • Stigma, Symposium “Communities of Support: Resilience, Empowerment, and Mental Health,” Zagreb, 2024.
  • Jung in the School Desk, 2nd Conference of School Psychologists, Zagreb, 2024.
  • Learning from the Learners: Comparison of Mental Health Services in Cities of Milan, London, and Zagreb, 23rd World Congress of Psychiatry (Short Oral-Poster).
  • Comparison of Systems of Psychiatric Care in Italy, the United Kingdom, and Croatia, 11th Days of Croatian Psychiatry.
  • Establishment of Psychiatric Care for People with Intellectual Disabilities, 11th Days of Croatian Psychiatry (Short Oral-Poster).
  • Towards a Balanced Model of Mental Health Care: An Example from Croatia, 7th Eastern European Conference of Mental Health, In and Out of Your Mind & 4th International Public Mental Health Conference.
  • Should We Think More and Know Less or Another Way Around? Uses of Artificial Intelligence-Based Large Language Models in Medical Education and Its Potential Consequences, 11th International Conference on Ethics Education.
  • I Know the Right Thing to Do but I Just Can’t Do It: The Role of Moral Distress in the Education of Healthcare Professionals, 11th International Conference on Ethics Education.
  • Mobile Teams as a Response to the War Refugee Crisis: Lessons Learned, 6th Eastern-European Conference of Mental Health/3rd International Public Health Conference.
  • Mobile Teams as a Response to Major Civil Psycho-Trauma, 6th Eastern-European Conference of Mental Health/3rd International Public Health Conference, Zagreb.
  • Medical Students and Peer Support Groups: An Example from Croatia, 6th Eastern-European Conference of Mental Health/3rd International Public Health Conference.
  • Survived, Now What? 6th International Transdisciplinary Symposium, Bioethics and Aporia of Psyche, Zagreb, May 4–6, 2022.
  • Preservation of Mental Health in Sisak-Moslavina County, 19th Lošinj Days of Bioethics.