NIKICA DARABOŠ

Specialist of General Surgery, Orthopaedics and Traumatology & Diplomat

International institute for health impact

Experience, knowledge, and empathy are essential for the medical profession and quality healthcare services.

DIPLOMACY

In period from 2014. to 2015. was an ESSKA U45 committee chair. He is the evaluator of the European Comm Horizon 2020 Health program. At the same time he is a member of  Rotary International and head of InterCountryCommittee ICC of Croatia. Upon graduation of Diplomacy studies at the University of Zagreb, he received diplomacy degree.

He has recently assumed the new post of Diplomatic Representative at the UN and WHO in the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Croatia to the UN in Geneva, Switzerland.

MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

800+

demanding operations

1000+

satisfied
patients

15

International awards

20

years of experience

Specialist in General Surgery, Orthopedics and Traumatology graduated in 1995 from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb and is employed at the General Hospital Varaždin. In 2008 he continued his career at the Clinic for Traumatology, KBC Sisters of Mercy in Zagreb, and in 2016 he was elected Head of the Department of Traumatology and Bone Joint Surgery at KBC Zagreb.

His narrow area of work within osseous joint surgery is conservative and surgical treatment of sports injuries, bone and joint injuries, and degenerative joint changes of the locomotor system, including arthroscopic and reconstructive surgery and arthroplasty.

HEALTH SYSTEM

By using his experience in evaluating European projects in the program Horizon 2020, networking with domestic and foreign colleagues, learning about the organization of health systems in other countries, Assist Prof Nikica Darabos promotes the positive impacts and results of international transfer of Croatian knowledge in medicine and health.

In cooperation with the Ministry of Health, the Committee on Health and Social Policy of the Croatian Parliament, the Croatian Medical and Pharmacy Chambers and the Association of Employers in Health he points out the need to define a new direction in the development of the health care system and health policy in Croatia.

contact

PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA TO THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE, GENEVA
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1202 Geneve, SUISSE