Hospital Malnutrition and the Continuum of Care

Sanja Kolaček, MD, PhD

Pediatric Gastroenterologist 
Medical University of Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia

Sanja Kolaček is a Professor of Paediatrics at the Zagreb University Medical School, and the Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, who recently retired from the position of Head of the University Division of Paediatrics at the Children's Hospital Zagreb, Croatia. 

Professor Kolaček is the ESPGHAN Past President, and former ESPGHAN Committee of Nutrition member, and is/was also serving in different ruling and educational bodies of the ECCO, ESPEN, UEG, and in various Croatian medical associations. Currently, she is one of nine members of the Board of Directors of BioMed Alliance – the umbrella association covering 36 medical societies. Her editorial activities include being Associate Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (JPGN), and membership in the Advisory Board of the Journal of Crohn's and Colitis.

Professor Kolaček has published more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals; more than 180 cited in PubMed and wrote numerous chapters in Croatian and international editions. She has been ranked among the top 2% of the world’s most cited scientists (Stanford University).

Her main clinical interests include chronic enteropathies and chronic intestinal failure, clinical nutrition and nutrition of healthy infants, while her present research activities include IBD, Coeliac disease, Probiotics, and Disease-related malnutrition.