Branka Bedenic

Haris Car, PhD, was born on February 11th 1983 in Zagreb, where he finished elementary school and Health school with a high school degree of a medical laboratory technician. He won the first place in the 7th Croatian national competition for schools with health programmes „Schola medica“ in 2001 (programme for medical laboratory technicians), subject microbiology and medical biochemistry. He graduated from the University of Applied Health Sciences in Zagreb on January 9th 2007 where he received a Bachelor of medical laboratory diagnostics (bacc.med.lab.diag.) with the thesis Frequency of most common organisms causing urinary tract infection in children and their susceptibility to antimicrobial drugs. He completed his internship in the Knežija Health centre in 2008, and passed the state exam in 2009. Since 2009 he has been employed by the Zagreb Health school, where he works as a teacher of vocational subjects in programmes for environmental public health technicians and medical laboratory technicians. From 2010 until 2014 he performed duties of a state education exam coordinator for the School. From 2017 until 2022 he was the head of the programmes for environmental public health technicians and medical laboratory technicians in the Health school. In 2011 he completed the teacher training program in pedagogical, psychological, and methodological skills at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Teacher Education, after which he passed the Professional Examination of the Agency for Vocational Education and Training and Adult Education in 2013. In 2012 he enrolled in the Faculty of Health Studies of the University of Sarajevo, where he earned an MA in laboratory technologies in 2014 with the thesis Review of marker testing of blood borne viruses (HBV, HCV and HIV) for haemodialysis patients and surgical clinics. In 2020 he earned a PhD degree at the University of Osijek Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Doctoral Study of Molecular Biosciences by defending the thesis In vitro synergy and postantibiotic effect of colistin combined with vancomycin and meropenem against carbapenem resistant Gram-negative bacteria with multiple carbapenemases. His area of scientific interest is bacterial resistance to antibiotic combinations.