1. Curriculum Vitae
Goran Pavlisa, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Zagreb School of Medicine
Clinical Institute of Radiology
University Hospital Center Zagreb
University of Zagreb School of Medicine
Zagreb, Croatia
GSM: +385 91 5619103
E-mail:
gpavlisa@xnet.hr
PERSONAL
Date of birth: 13 December 1972
Citizenship: Croatian
CURRENT POSITION
Neuroradiologist
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
University Hospital Center Zagreb
EDUCATION
PhD - University of Zagreb Medical School. Degree awarded, February 2008. Thesis:
“Characterization of intracranial tumors by diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging and
quantification of apparent diffusion coefficient”
MD - University of Zagreb Medical School. Degree awarded, June 1997.
2006-2008. – neuroradiology fellowship at Clinical Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional
Radiology, University Hospital Center Zagreb - 2-year programme, Croatian Ministry of Health
certified
2001-2005. – radiology residency at Clinical Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology,
University Hospital Center Zagreb - 4-year programme, Croatian Ministry of Health certified
2004. – educational visit – 1 month, Department of Neuroradiology, Clinical Institute of Radiology,
University Klinikum Muenchen, Grosshadern, Muenchen, DE
WORK EXPERIENCE
2015. – locum consultant neuroradiologist, Royal Preston Hospital, Preston, UK (3 months)
2012- 2016. Senior instructor, University of Zagreb School of Medicine
2016-currently – Assistant Professor, University of Zagreb School of Medicine
2005-currently - consultant radiologist, neuroradiology sub-specialist,
2011-2014. Head of Neuroradiology Cabinet at Department of Diagnostic and Interventional
Radiology, University Hospital Center Zagreb
2005-currently. – consultant radiologist at Croatian Institute for Brain Research
1999-2001. – military physician

2. 1997-1998. – internship at Clinic for Infective Diseases, Zagreb
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
2010. – Research associate, Biomedicine and Health Sciences: Clinical medical sciences
2005. – Member of Editorial board of Neurologia Croatica journal
• Reviewer for: Neurological Research (CC), Journal of Affective Disorders (Current
Contents), Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs (Current Contents), Liječnički Vjesnik
(Index Medicus)
• Researcher, Research project by University of Zagreb Medical School, started 2007: „The
role of subcortical structures in the epileptogenesis of developmental age“, project leader
Nina Barisic, MD, PhD, Professor of pediatric medicine
Register of researchers, Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Researcher number:
321811
PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles
Current contents:
1. Ozretić D, Radoš M, Pavliša G, Poljaković Z. Long-term angiographic outcome of
stent-assisted coiling compared to non-assisted coiling of intracranial saccular
aneurysms. Croat Med J. 2015 Feb;56(1):24-31.
2. Bazina A, Mišmaš A, Hucika Z, Pavliša G, Poljaković Z. Endovascular treatment of
internal carotid artery pseudo-aneurysm presenting with epistaxis. A case report. Interv
Neuroradiol. 2014 Dec;20(6):743-5
3. Šupe S, Poljaković Z, Habek M, Pavliša G, Stojanović-Špehar S. A near-hanging
patient with PTSD and acute stroke - an unusual condition for "off label" thrombolysis.
Psychiatr Danub. 2013 Jun;25(2):185-7.
4. Coce N, Pavlisa G, Nankovic S, Jakovčevic A, Seronja-Kuhar M, Pavlisa G. Large
hemorrhagic colloid cyst in a 35-year old male. Turk Neurosurg, 2012; 22(6):783-4.
5. Pavlisa G, Rados M, Ozretic D, Pavlisa G. Endovascular treatment of AVM-
associated aneurysm of anterior inferior cerebellar artery through persistent primitive
hypoglossal artery. B J Neurosurg, 2012 Feb;26(1):86-8.
6. Adamec I, Matijević V, Pavliša G, Zadro I, Habek M. Beware of "old" Horner
syndrome. Optom Vis Sci. 2012 Oct;89(10):e12-5.
7. Habek M, Adamec I, Pavliša G, Brinar VV. Diagnostic approach of patients with
longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis. Acta Neurol Belg. 2012 Mar;112(1):39-43.
8. Sarac H, Telarović S, Markeljević J, Perić B, Pavlisa G, Rados M. Symptomatic
capillary telangiectasia of the pons and intracerebral developmental venous anomaly -
A rare association. Coll Antropol. 2011 Jan;35 Suppl 1:333-8.
9. Sarac H, Henigsberg N, Markeljević J, Pavlisa G, Hof PR, Simić G. Fragile X-
premutation tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) in a young woman: clinical, genetics,
MRI and 1H-MR spectroscopy correlates. Coll Antropol. 2011 Jan;35 Suppl 1:327-32.
10. Habek M, Gabelic T, Pavlisa G, Brinar V. Central positioning upbeat nystagmus and
vertigo due to pontine stroke. J Clin Neurosci, 2011;18(7):977-8.
11. Gveric-Ahmetasevic S, Colic A, Gveric T, Elvedi-Gasparovic V, Pavlisa G, Ozretic D.
Coexistance of cerebral sinovenous thrombosis and Dandy Walker malformation in a
newborn. Coll Antropol, 2011, 35(1): 303-307.
12. Pavlisa G, Rados M, Ozretic D, Pavlisa G. Endovascular treatment of a ruptured
radiation-induced aneurysm in a patient previously treated by Yttrium-90
brachytherapy. Acta Neurol Belg 2010, 110:276-278.

3. 13. Boban M, Poljakovic Z, Supe S, Pavlisa G. Unrecognized case of indirect carotid-
cavernous fistula. Acta Neurol Belg 2010, 110(2):216.
14. Pavlisa G, Pavlisa G, Kusec V, Ostojic Kolonic S, Stipic Markovic A, Jaksic B. Serum
levels of VEGF and bFGF in hypoxic patients with exacerbated COPD. Eur Cytokine
Netw 2010, 1;21(2):92-8.
15. Pavlisa G, Ozretic D, Murselovic T, Pavlisa G, Rados M. Sole stenting of large and
giant intracranial aneurysms with self-expanding intracranial stents – limits and
complications. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2010, 52(5):763-9.
16. Petelin Gadze Z, Hajnsek S, Basic S, Sporis D, Pavlisa G, Nankovic S. Patient with
neuromyelitis optica and inflammatory demyelinating lesions comprising whole spinal
cord from C2 level till conus: case report. BMC Neurol 2009, 9(1):56.
17. Habek M, Gabelic T, Brinar V, Pavlisa G. Late-onset Wilson’s disease presenting with
general anxiety disorder. Acta Neuropsychiatr 2009, 21(5):267-268
18. Pavlisa G, Rados M, Pavlisa G, Pavic L, Potocki K, Mayer D. The differences of
water diffusion between brain tissue infiltrated by tumor and peritumoral vasogenic
edema. Clin Imaging 2009, 33(2):96-101.
19. Pavlisa G, Rados M, Pazanin L, Stern Padovan R, Ozretic D, Pavlisa G.
Characteristics of typical and atypical meningiomas on ADC maps with respect to
schwannomas. Clin Imaging 2008;32(1):22-7.
20. Sarac H, Vranjes D, Henigsberg N, Bilic E, Pavlisa G. MR imaging and MR
spectroscopy in a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal
dementia. Coll Antropol 2007; 31(3): 315–319.
21. Pavic L, Gregurek R, Rados M, Brkljacic B, Brajkovic L, Simetin-Pavic I, Ivanac G,
Pavlisa G, Kalousek V. Smaller right hippocampus in war veterans with posttraumatic
stress disorder. Psychiatry Res 2007; 154(2): 191-198.
22. Pavlisa G, Papa J, Pavic L, Pavlisa G. Bilateral MR volumetry of the amygdala in
chronic PTSD patients. Coll Antropol 2006; 30(3):565–8.
23. Pavlisa G, Planinc-Peraica A, Anic P, Kardum-Skelin I, Pavlisa G, Jaksic B.
Pneumomediastinum as a complication to treatment of mediastinal (thymic) large B-
cell lymphoma. A Radiol 2005; 46:371-3.
Citations: 116 (Web of Science)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE/SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
• 2nd Croatian neuroradiology meeting with international participation, Vodice, HR, 2016,
lecturer and congress vice-president, member of organizational committee
• WFNRS 2014 - 20. Symposium Neuroradiologicum, 7-12 September 2014 -
Istanbul/Turkey, Moderator and lecturer
• 1st Croatian neuroradiology meeting with international participation, Split, HR, 2014,
lecturer and congress vice-president, member of organizational committee
• 3rd Congress Dilemmas in Neurology, Šibenik 2012, HR, invited lectuer
• CT from Head to Toe and MRI Master Class Course, Ljubljana, SI, 2013, invited lecturer
• 5th Congress of the Croatian Neurosurgical Society and the Joint Meeting with the
Congress of Slovenian Neurosurgical Society, Rijeka/Opatija, HR, 2011, invited lecturer.
• 9th European Pediatric Neurology Society Congress, Cavtat, HR, 2011, invited lecturer,
session chairman.
• 2011 SE Key Opinion Leaders Meeting, Begunje, SLO, 2011, invited lecturer, session
chairman.
• 2010 South-East Key Opinion Leaders Meeting, Novi Sad, 2010, invited lecturer.

4. • International meeting on psychiatric disorders: Vertical, tangent and parellel axons in
psychiatry, Dubrovnik, 2010, invited lecturer and session chairman.
• 7th
Meeting of Croatian interventional radiologists with international participation,
Zagreb, Cro, 2009.
• 5th
Alpe-Adria Neuroradiological Meeting, Supetar, Cro, 2008.
• 6th
Meeting of Croatian interventional radiologists with international participation,
Supetar, Cro, 2007.
• Croatian-Hungarian-Slovenian Congress of Radiology, Heviz 2004.
• Croatian-Hungarian-Slovenian Congress of Radiology, Koprivnica, 2003.
• 4th
Meeting of Croatian interventional radiologists with international participation,
Supetar, Cro, 2003.
• European Congress of Radiology, Vienna, 2003.
• 2nd
Croatian-Hungarian-Slovenian Congress of Radiology, Pech, 2001.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2016- Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Zagreb Medical School, Zagreb
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION COURSES - LECTURER
• 2011. - Treatment of chronic pain. University of Zagreb Medical School, Zagreb, CRO
- Magnetic resonance of neural roots and brachial and lumbosacral plexus, lecture.
• 2011. – Basics of MR Spectroscopy, University Hospital Center Zagreb
- Lectures on spectroscopy techniques and clinical aplications in diagnsotics of intracranial
tumours
• 2010. - Advanced Course in Neurosonology and Neurovascular Management. Clinic of
neurology, University of Zagreb Medical School, Zagreb, CRO; The Methodist
Cardiovascular Surgery Associates, Houston, TX, US.
- Vascular anatomy, lecture
- Neurovascular procedures – Croatian experiences, lecture
- Why would a neuroradiologist send his patient to CEA?, lecture
• 2010. Back pain: lumbosacral syndrome – diagnostics and treatment. University of Zagreb
Medical School, Zagreb, CRO
- MR and CT diagnostics of lumbosacral spine, lecture
• 2009. - Approach to patients with dementia. Continuing medical education, Zagreb
Medical School.
- Neuroradiological assessment of dementia, lecture
• 2009. - Vertigo. Continuing medical education, Zagreb Medical School.
- Vertigo. Imaging techniques and indications, lecture
• 2008. - Multidisciplinary approach to carotid artery disease. Continuing medical education,
University of Zagreb Medical School.
- Anatomy and pathological changes of carotid and vertebral arteries, lecture
- Endovascular treatment of vertebrobasilar artery disease, lecture
POSTGRADUATE STUDIES OF ZAGREB MEDICAL SCHOOL – LECTURER
• 2005 – 2014. Chosen chapters of developmental age epileptogenesis, Clinic for Pediatric
Medicine, Zagreb School of Medicine and University Hospital Center Zagreb
• 2006 – 2014. Pediatric Medicine
• 2009 – 2014. Oncology and Radiotherapy
• 2009 – 2014. Radiology
• 2009 – 2014. Clinical Neurology

5. • 2013. - Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES OF ZAGREB MEDICAL SCHOOL – LECTURER
• 2006 – 2014. Radiology, seminars and workshops
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
• Vice-president, Neuroradiology section of Croatian Society of Radiology
• Vice-president, Organizing committee of I Croatian neuroradiology meeting 2014, Split,
CRO
• Member, Section for Interventional Radiology of Croatian Society of Radiology
• Secretary, Organizing committee of 5th Alpe-Adria Neuroradiological Meeting, Supetar,
CRO, 2008.
• Member, Organizing committee of Advanced Course in Neurosonology and Neurovascular
Management, Zadar, CRO, 2010.
LANGUAGES
• The First Certificate in English, Awarded by University of Cambridge.

6. • 2013. - Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES OF ZAGREB MEDICAL SCHOOL – LECTURER
• 2006 – 2014. Radiology, seminars and workshops
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
• Vice-president, Neuroradiology section of Croatian Society of Radiology
• Vice-president, Organizing committee of I Croatian neuroradiology meeting 2014, Split,
CRO
• Member, Section for Interventional Radiology of Croatian Society of Radiology
• Secretary, Organizing committee of 5th Alpe-Adria Neuroradiological Meeting, Supetar,
CRO, 2008.
• Member, Organizing committee of Advanced Course in Neurosonology and Neurovascular
Management, Zadar, CRO, 2010.
LANGUAGES
• The First Certificate in English, Awarded by University of Cambridge.