Dr. Ivana Čuković-Bagić

Professor Ivana Cukovic-Bagic, DMD, MS, PhD, specialist in paediatric and preventive dentistry. For the past 32 years, she has been involved in research, teaching and specialist healthcare at the University of Zagreb, School of Dental Medicine, Department of Paediatric and Preventive Dentistry, where she is a Full Professor and Specialist in Paediatric and Preventive Dentistry. Her PhD is made on craniofacial anthropometry in collaboration with Professor Leslie G. Farkas (Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto), the “father” of modern craniofacial anthropometry. She was a Scientific Advisor and Principal Investigator/Collaborator in many grants, connected to her interests and competences. She is teaching at undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate courses covering a wide range of topics in children and adolescents, such as: age estimation, child abuse and neglect, carious and non-carious lesions, (medically) compromised patients. After years of obtaining knowledge from renowned world experts in the field of forensic odontology, she made efforts to design and introduce a course (in 2007) on “Child abuse and (dental) neglect”, which improved study program of Dental Medicine at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Professor Cukovic-Bagic is author of National Strategy for Oral Health Prevention and Protection, Ministry of Health, Republic of Croatia. She has published more than 80 peer-reviewed in extenso articles as well as she had participating in creating university (hand)books as an author/editor/reviewer. Also, she had numerous lectures/presentations on mainly international congresses/meetings. She is a member of many national and international societies, and is qualified as an expert witness for the field of dental medicine. Since 2014 to 2022, she has been holding the position of Vice Rector for Students, Study Programmes and Quality Management at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and since 2021 to 2023 the position of Appointed Rector of newly founded University of Defence and Security, Republic of Croatia