Biography of Nevenka Gruden, MD PhD

General data

Dr. Nevenka Gruden
Born: 1929-04-16, Maribor
Scientific advisor (retired) at the Institute for medical research and occupational health of the Yugoslav academy of sciences and arts, Zagreb

Education

1935 - 1939
Primary school in Maribor, Ljubljana, Niš, Zagreb
1939 - 1947
Academic secondary school in Zagreb
1947
Graduation from the I Academic secondary school in Zagreb
1947 - 1954
Studied at the Medical School of the Zagreb University
1954 - 1955
Volonteered at the Children's Hospital of the Medical School in Leeds, Great Britain
1956 - 1960
Specialization of the School-based children's and adolescent medicine (Zagreb, Leeds), Council for health and social policy of the Republic of Croatia
1960
Specialist examination
1965
PhD at the Medical School of the Zagreb University
1972
Habilitation in physiology at the Medical School of the Zagreb University

Job history

1960 - 1961
Health Care Center of Trnje, Zagreb
1961
Employed at the Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health ("the Institute"), Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
1961 - 1968
Scientific Assistant at the Institute
1968 - 1973
Scientific Associate at the Institute
1973 - 1977
Senior Scientific Associate at the Institute
1977
Scientific Advisor at the Institute
1968 - 1976
Deputy Head of Department for the physiology of mineral metabolism at the Institute

Foreign experience

Specialist study abroad

1965 - 1966
Biochemistry Department, Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
1970
International Summer School for radiation protection, Cavtat

Study tour

1972
Sthralenzentrum des Justen-Liebig Universität, Institut für Biophysik, Giessen
1975
Pathophysiology Department, Medical School of the Semmelweis University, Budapest

Coordination meetings

1968
Meeting of radiation toxicologists of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia
1969
Meeting of toxicologists of socialist countries, Budapest

Teaching activity

1967
  • Lecturer of Clinical biochemistry in postgraduate studies at the School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry of the University of Zagreb - a member of the collegium: Biochemistry, Head: H. Fišer
  • Lecturer at the Occupational health seminar, organised by the Federal health care agency, Baško Polje
1971
  • Lecturer of Clinical Biochemistry in postgraduate studies at the School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry of the University of Zagreb - a member of the collegium: Biochemistry, Head: H. Fišer
  • Lecturer of Experimental Biology in postgraduate studies at the University of Zagreb - a member of the collegium: Selected chapters of mineral metabolism, Head: K. Kostial
1974
Lecturer of Biology in postgraduate studies at the University of Zagreb - a member of the collegium: Selected chapters of mineral metabolism phisiology, Head: K. Kostial
1975
Lecturer in postgraduate studies of othopedics at the University of Zagreb (Health care school "Andrija Štampar") - a member of the collegium: Anatomy and physiology of the locomotive system, Heads: P. Keros, K. Kostial
1972 - 1974
Supervisor for master's theses

Membership in professional organisations

since 1958
A member of Croatian Medical Association (Zbor liječnika Hrvatske)
since 1963
  • A member of the Yugoslav society for the radiological protection (Jugoslavensko društvo za radiološku zaštitu)
  • A member of the Yugoslav Physiological Association (Jugoslavensko društvo za fiziologiju)
since 1972
A member of the Yugoslav Biophysics Association (Jugoslavensko društvo za biofiziku)
1972 - 1973
A member of the Executive Council of the Yugoslav Association for Radiation Protection (Jugoslavensko društvo za radiološku zaštitu)

Other activities

1967 - 1969
Member of the Council of the Institute
1968 - 1969
Member of the Executive Board of the Institute
since 1969
Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute
1973 - 1974
Member of the Commission for health and social policy at the regional Committee of SKH, Zagreb, Medveščak
since 1975
  • Member of the Delegation of associated labour of the Institute (Delegacija udruženog rada)
  • Member of the Commission for National Defense of the Institute (Komisija za narodnu obranu)
since 1976
  • Deputy Delegate of the Institute in the University Assembly
  • Deputy President of the Conference of delegates for the Council of Associated Labour (election unit 50, Municipal Assembly Medveščak)
1977
Member of the Commission making the Institute Regulations comply with ZUR (Law on Associated Labour).
1983 - 1985
Coordinator of the Division "Eksperim biomed"
1983 - 1986
Member of the Program Council

Medals

1982
Order of Labour with Gold Wreath

Invited lectures

1986
American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA, USA
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Created: 2005-04-10 Modified: 2005-06-17