Professor Dalibor Karlović Appointed Dean of the School of Medicine

Based on the decision of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Medicine dated 9 April 2025, the Senate of the Catholic University of Croatia, at the first session of its 5th convocation held on 17 June 2025, confirmed Prof. Dr. Dalibor Karlović as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for a term of three years, from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2028.
 

Prof. Dr. Karlović was born in Zadar in 1973, where he completed primary and secondary education. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb, and earned his doctoral degree at the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the same university. He has been employed at the Catholic University of Croatia since 2012. His first term as Dean began in the 2021/2022 academic year, and with this appointment, he enters his second term.

Prof. Dr. Karlović is Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the Sisters of Mercy University Hospital Centre and Chair of the Division of Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology. He is a specialist in psychiatry and a subspecialist in biological psychiatry. In 2010, he established the Reference Centre for Consultative-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, followed by the Ministry of Health's Reference Centre for Biological Psychiatry in 2016. In 2024, he founded the Department of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Brain Stimulation.

He also serves as: President of the Croatian Society for Schizophrenia (Croatian Medical Association), Chair of the Psychiatry Board for specialist exams at the Ministry of Health, Member of the Ministry of Health’s Committee for Specialist Psychiatric Training.

Prof. Dr. Karlović has published 10 scientific and professional books as editor-in-chief and contributed around 20 chapters in textbooks and manuals. He has supervised 14 doctoral dissertations across various faculties and universities in Croatia. He is the author or co-author of over 300 scientific references, including more than 140 papers indexed in CC, SCI, and Scopus. He has actively participated in numerous European and global congresses and has been involved in several international psychopharmacological studies on new treatments for depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.

He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Archives of Psychiatry Research and serves on the editorial boards of several internationally indexed journals.