Professor Smiljka Popović Suić, PhD, MD

Smiljka Popović Suić graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Zagreb, specializing in ophthalmology and subspecializing in glaucomatology at the Department of Ophthalmology, Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb. She was a Professor of Ophthalmology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb, from 2009 to 2020, when she retired. She was the Head of the Department for Orbital Diseases, Neuroophthalmology, and Glaucoma at the Department of Ophthalmology, Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb.

In her academic pursuits, she completed postgraduate studies in Clinical Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb, where she also obtained her master's degree. She defended her doctoral thesis on the topic of glaucoma at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb. She taught undergraduate students, conducting lectures, seminars, and exams, as well as postgraduate students, where she was the course coordinator for Immunology in Ophthalmology and Glaucoma.

For many years, Smiljka Popović Suić has been involved in the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. In glaucoma diagnostics, she utilizes applanation tonometry, gonioscopy, and optical coherence tomography of the optic nerve and macula. At Eye Clinic Svjetlost she has access to selective laser trabeculoplasty, which she uses for cases resistant to local drop therapy, as well as Neodymium YAG laser iridotomy for narrow-angle glaucoma.

She has published 22 papers indexed in CC (citation databases), as well as 48 papers cited under other indexes, focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma, as well as diseases of the ocular surface and optic nerve. She has delivered a series of invited lectures at domestic and international congresses. She has served as a mentor for 13 master's theses and 5 doctoral dissertations. Additionally, she has contributed articles to 4 university textbooks.