Karin Zibar Tomšić

Karin Zibar Tomsic was born in Osijek in 1985. In 2008 she graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb. From 2009-2011 she worked as a research fellow at the Department of Pediatrics at Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb. In 2011 she was awarded a fellowship with the titled project "Gaining knowledge on newborn screening using tandem mass spectrometry" and stayed at Mayo Clinic in Rochester for 3 months. In 2012, she began specialization in endocrinology and diabetology and passed the residency exam in 2019. She completed part of her residency at Vuk Vrhovac University Clinic and part at Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb. She joined the Department of Endocrinology as a specialist in Endocrinology and Diabetology in April 2019 at Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb. Her narrow areas of interest are diabetes, thyroid, pituitary and adrenal disorders. In 2015, she defended her dissertation entitled "The relationship of plasma concentrations of glucagon-like peptide 1 and fibroblast growth factor-21 with glucoregulation, lipidemia and microvascular complications in diabetes mellitus type 1 individuals" at the postgraduate scientific study of Biomedicine and Health in Zagreb. Since 2015 she is an external associate in the subject "Fundamentals of Medical Skills ". She is the author and co-author of several scientific papers published in journals indexed in the database Current Contents. Since 2019 she has been actively involved as the Chair of the Croatian Section of Young Endocrinologists which is part of Croatian Society for Endocrinology and Diabetology (HDED). She was actively involved in the organisation of the ESE Young Endocrinologists and Scientists (EYES) Meeting in Zagreb from September 2-4, 2022.