Professor Aljoz Ihan, PhD., M.D.
Lecture 1: Health Apps: None for All
Alojz Ihan is a doctor, a specialist in clinical microbiology and a professor of Microbiology and immunology at the Medical Faculty at the University in Ljubljana. He graduated in 1987 at the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana. In 1988, he began working at the Institute of Microbiology on Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana. In 1991 and 1992 he worked at the National Institute for Cancer Research in Genoa (INRC). He got the title Doctor of Medical Sciences in 1993 with the thesis: "Isolation and identification of membrane proteins that define aloreactivity of natural killer cells in humans." In 1994, he hosted as a researcher at Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Bethesda, USA. Since 1997, he is a specialist in clinical microbiology. He was elected for the title of a professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical Faculty in 2006. He works as a professor of Medical microbiology and Immunology at the Medical Faculty and is the Head of the Department of Immunology at the Institute of Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana.
Alojz Ihan is the primary mentor for specialization in Clinical microbiology and Immunology (Medical Chamber of Slovenia), a member of the expert supervision in the field of Clinical microbiology and Immunology (Medical Chamber of Slovenia), President of the extended professional college of Microbiology and Immunology (RSK) Ministry of Health of Republic of Slovenia, which is the main professional organ in the Republic of Slovenia in the field of Microbiology and Immunology. Alojz Ihan is also a member and vice-chairman of the Commission for vaccines at the Institute of Public Health, Director of the ISDR (Institute of professional activity and development) in the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana. He is also the chief editor of a medical journal named Isis.
Bibliography of prof. Ihan includes above 650 units (Cobiss), of which over 60 articles in international scientific journals, cited by Science Citation Index (SCI).