Children's Hospital Zagreb
The University Department of Pediatrics was established in 1904 as Department of Pediatrics at Sestre milosrdnice Hospital in Zagreb, as the first pediatric department in Croatia, founded and headed until 1920 by Dr. Radovan Marković, the first Croatian pediatrician. In the second half of the 20th century, the Department grew into University Department and one of the leading pediatric institutions in Croatia. Today, Children's Hospital Zagreb consists of the Pediatric Clinic, Clinic for Pediatric Surgery and several institutes and no-medical departments. The Pediatric Clinic has 2 institutes and 3 Clinical Departments with 3 Reference Centers of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. The Clinic for Pediatric Surgery is the only pediatric surgery clinic in the Republic of Croatia and brings together almost half of Croatian children's surgeons in one place, with the ability to perform almost all surgical interventions on a small patient. Over the past 25 years, except domestic surgeons, twenty multidisciplinary surgical teams have stayed and worked in clinic from the world's best children's hospitals from United States, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, France, the Netherlands and England.
Children's Hospital Zagreb has recognized the role of nutritionists in their teams and today employs a total of 5 nutritionists within the Ministry of Health's Reference Center for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Dietary Disorders, the Institute for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology "Dr. Mladen Ćepulić "and the Department of Nutrition.
Children's Hospital Zagreb has recognized the role of nutritionists in their teams and today employs a total of 5 nutritionists within the Ministry of Health's Reference Center for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Dietary Disorders, the Institute for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology "Dr. Mladen Ćepulić "and the Department of Nutrition.