Croatian version
NAME: Goran Krstacic, MD, PhD, FESC
Cardiologist, born 1962
Contact: Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases and Rehabilitation
Draskoviceva 13, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Phone : (+385) 1 46 12 346
Fax: (+385) 1 46 12 343
E-mail:goran.krstacic@zg.t-com.hr
Citizenship: Croatia
Education: 1987 M.D.
1992 Ph.M. Rijeka University School of Medicine
2002 Ph.D., Zagreb University School of Medicine
Postgraduate Training and Fellowship Appointments: 1988 – 1990 Postgraduated study in Clinical Pathophysiology
1992 Ph.M.
1990 – 1994 Resident, Internal medicine, University Hospital "Sisters of Mercy", Zagreb
1995 Passed state exam of internal medicine
1993 – 1995 Postgraduated study of cardiology
1995 Passed exam of cardiology
1999 Echocardiography course, Hammersmith Hospital School, London, UK
2000 Postgraduated study of echocardiography, Zagreb
2002 – 2004 Cardiology research, University Hospital Center Zagreb
2004 Fellowship, Cardiology, Zagreb
2005 European Cardiologist Diploma
2006 Fellow of European Society of Cardiology
Faculty Appointments: 2004 Assistant Professor (senior research), Zagreb University Medical School
2008 Professor, Medical Nurse School Zagreb
Hospital and Clinic Administrative Appointments: Clinical cardiologist, Institute for Cardiovascular Disease and Rehabilitation, Zagreb
Head of Cardiovascular Department
Memberships in Societies: European Society of Cardiology
European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation
European Association of Echocardiography
ESC Working group "Computers in Cardiology" (Nucleus member, Secretary-elect)
Croatian Cardiac Society
WG for prevention and rehabilitition of cardiovascular diseases Croatian Cardiac Society member
Residual risk iniciative (R3i) member, national faculty
National Elected/Appointed Leadership and Committee Positions: Former president of WG "Computers in Cardiology"
Croatian Society of Cardiology (2004-2008)
National group for linear and non-linear dynamics member
Head doctor since 2006
Research Projects: 1991 – 1994 Early detection of pulmonary microembolisation utilising transfer factor, University Clinical Hospital Split
2001 – 2002 Nonlinearity and deterministic chaos in cardiology, Rudjer Boskovic Institute
2004 – 2007 Structure of dynamical fluctuations in nonlinear systems, Rudjer Boskovic Institute
2006 – 2009 FP6 EU project – HEARTFAID Platform” (Support for the Medical-Clinical Menagement of Heart Failure within Elderly Population).
Paper review: American Journal of Cardiology
Artifficial Intelligence in Medicine
Medical & Biological Engeneering & Computing
Journal of Biomechanics
Biological research for Nursing
Main fileds of interest: Outcome cardiac rehabilitation
Heart Rate Variability and chaos theory in pts during rehabilitation
Echocardiography

PUBLICATIONS

Current Contents:

  1. D. Gamberger, N. Lavrac, A. Krstacic; G. Krstacic. Clinical data analysis based on iterative subgroup discovery: Experiments in brain ischaemia data analysis: Applied Intelligence: Special issue on „Computational Intelligence in Medicine and Biology“ 2007; 27; 3: 205-217.
  2. A Knežević, M Martinis, G Krstačić, E Vargović. Changes in multifractal properties for stable angina pectoris. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications: 2005; 358, 2-4: 505-515.
  3. M. Martinis, A. Knežević, G. Krstačić and E. Vargović. Changes in the Hurst exponent of heartbeat intervals during physical activity. Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics) 2004: 70; 1: 12903: 1-4.
  4. D. Gamberger, N. Lavrac, G. Krstacic. «Active Subgroup Mining: A Case Study in Coronary Heart Disease Risk Group Detection. Artifficial Intelligence in Medicine 2003; 28: 27-57.
  5. D. Gamberger, N. Lavrac and G. Krstacic. «Confirmation rule induction and its application to coronary heart disease diagnosis and risk group discovery. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems 2002; 12: 35–48.
  6. Ž. Dujić, D. Eterović, P. Denoble, G. Krstačić, J. Tocilj, S. Gošović. Effect of a single air dive on pulmonary diffusing capacity in proffesional divers. Journal of Applied Physiology 1993; 74: 55-61.
  7. Ž. Dujić, D. Eterović, P. Denoble, G. Krstačić, J. Tocilj. Lung diffusing capacity in a hyperbaric environment: assessement by a rebreathing technique. British Journal of Industrial Medicine 1992; 49: 254–259.

Science Citation Index (SCI / SSCI):

  1. G. Krstacic, D. Gamberger, A. Krstacic, T. Smuc, D. Milicic. The chaos theory and non-linear dynamics in heart rate variability in patients with heart failure. Computers in Cardiology, in press.
  2. Goran Krstacic, Antonija Krstacic, Anton Smalcelj, Davor Milicic, Mirjana Jembrek-Gostovic. The «Chaos Theory» and Non-linear Dynamics in Heart Rate Variability Analysis: Does it Work in Short Time Series in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease? Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology 2007; 12 (2): 130-136.
  3. G. Krstacic, A. Krstacic, D. Gamberger, A. Smalcelj, D. Milicic. Heart rate variability based on „chaos theory“ and non-linear dynamycs in patients with heart failure. The 10th world Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics Proceedings, Orlando, USA 2006; (Vol. III): 237-241.
  4. D Gamberger, A Krstacic, G Krstacic, N Lavrac, M Sebag. Data Analysis Based on Subgroup Discovery: Experiments in Brain Ischaemia Domain. IDAMAP 2005. Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology. Ed: Holmes J, Peek N. 2005: 52 – 56.
  5. G. Krstacic, A. Krstacic, M. Martinis, E. Vargovic, M. Jembrek Gostovic. «Dynamic and Fractal Non-linear Changes of Heart Rate Variability in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease». Proceedings of the Computer, Communication and Control Technologies, CCCT and ISAS '03, 2003; 3: 45-49.
  6. G. Krstacic, D. Gamberger, T. Smuc: Coronary Heart Disease Patient Models Based in Inductive Machine Learning. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2001; 2101: 113–118.
  7. T. Smuc, D. Gamberger, G. Krstacic: Combining Unsupervised and Supervised Machine Learning in Analysis of the Coronary Heart Disease Patient Database. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2001; 2101: 109–112.
  8. D. Gamberger, N. Lavrac, G. Krstacic, T. Smuc: Inconsistency Tests for Patient Records in a Coronary Heart Disease Database. Medical Data Analysis. Lecture Notes in Computers Science 2000; 1933: 138–142.
  9. D. Gamberger, G. Krstacic, T. Smuc: Medical Expert Evaluation of Machine Learning Results for a Coronary Heart Disease Database. Lecture Notes in Computers Science 2000; 1933: 163–168.

INSPEC, Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings:

  1. Jovic, A., Prcela, M., Krstacic, G. (2007) Medical Plans as a Middle Step in Building Heart Failure Expert System. In Proc. of 11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering (MEDICON 2007), pp.549-553.
  2. G. Krstacic, A. Krstacic, M. Martinis, E. Vargovic, A. Knezevic, A. Smalcelj, M. Jembrek Gostovic, D. Milicic. M. Bergovec, M. Gostovic. «Dynamic Non-Linear Changes in Heart Rate Variability in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease and Arterial Hypertension treated with Amlodipine Besylate. IEEE: Computers in Cardiology, 2003; 30: 485-488.
  3. G. Krstacic, A. Krstacic, M. Martinis, E. Vargovic, A. Knezevic, A. Smalcelj, M. Jembrek Gostovic, D Gamberger, T. Smuc. «Non-Linear Analysis of Heart Rate Variability in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease. IEEE: Computers in Cardiology 2002; 29: 673-675.
  4. T. Smuc, I. Maric, G. Bosanac, D. Gamberger, N. Bogunovic, G. Krstacic. Dynamic Features of the Normal Heart Rate Variability. IEEE: Computers in Cardiology 2002; 29: 241-244.
  5. G. Krstacic, M. Martinis, E. Vargovic, A. Knezevic, A. Krstacic, A. Smalcelj, M. Jembrek-Gostovic: «Non-linear Dynamics in Patients with Stable Angina Pectoris». IEEE: Computers in Cardiology, 2001; 28: 45-48.
  6. G. Krstacic, D. Gamberger, T. Smuc, A. Krstacic: «Some Important R-R Interval Based PAF Predictors». IEEE: Computers in Cardiology 2001; 28: 409-412.
  7. G. Krstacic, A. Krstacic, M. Jembrek-Gostovic. Patient models for coronary heart disease. Atherosclerosis; Risk factors, diagnosis and treatment. Monduzzi ed. Proceedings of the European Atherosclerosis Society; 2002:47-50.
  8. S. Čagalj, L. Bojić, G. Krstačić, I. Vuković: Autonomna disfunkcija i primjerenost dijalize. Liječnički vjesnik 1996; 118 (Suppl 2): 137-39.
  9. G. Krstacic: Medical prevention: Targeting high-risk groups for coronary heart disease. In: Data Mining and Decision Support, 2001. Ed. N. Lavrac. Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.

Chapter in books:

  1. G. Krstačić. The chaos theory and coronary heart disease. In. Coronary heart disease. D.Mirić, L. Giunio; I. Vuković. Croatian Cardiac Society, Split. Slobodna Dalmacija, Split, 2006: 274-283.
  2. G. Krstačić, M. Martinis, A. Šmalcelj, M. Jembrek-Gostović, A. Krstačić. Nonlinear dynamic in ischaemic heart disease. In Modern Heart. D. Mirić and D. Vlahović. Croatian Cardiac Society. Slobodna Dalmacija, Split, 2001: 547 -554.
  3. G. Krstačić. Smoking and heart disease. In Prevention Cardiology. Dinko Mirić and Croatian Cardiac Society. Slobodna Dalmacija, Split 1997: 113 – 118. .)

Abstracts (Current Contens):

  1. G. Krstacic, A. Krstacic, D. Gamberger, D. Milicic. Heart rate variability: Non-linear analysis and the chaos theory in patients with heart failure: 3-years follow up. European Heart Journal 2008, 29:33.
  2. G. Krstacic, A. Krstacic, D. Gamberger, J. Mirat, E. Galic. Heart rate variability: non-linear changes and chaos theory in patients with heart failure. Eur Heart J 2007, 28 (Abstract Suppl): 407.
  3. G. Krstacic, A. Krstacic, A. Smalcelj, D. Milicic, M. Bergovec, M. Jembrek-Gostovic. Heart rate variability: non-linear changes in patients with coronary heart disease after coronary angioplasty: 3-years follow up. Eur Heart J 2006, 27 (Abstract Suppl), 319
  4. G. Krstacic, A. Krstacic, D. Gamberger, M. Jembrek-Gostovic. Risk factors analysis by inductive machine learning in coronary heart disease patients. Atherosclerosis 2006; Volume 7 (Abstract Suppl 3):47.
  5. G. Krstacic, A. Krstacic , A. Smalcelj, D. Milicic, M. Bergovec, M. Jembrek-Gostovic: Heart rate variability in patients with coronary heart disease after percutaneous coronary angioplasty. European Heart Journal 2005; Vol.26 (Abstract Supplement):739.
  6. Krstacic A, Krstacic G, Gamberger D, Car Z: Stroke patient models based on supervised inductive machine learning. Atherosclerosis; 2005; (Vol 6/1):158-9.
  7. G. Krstacic, M. Martinis, J. Crnugelj, A. Krstacic, M. Jembrek-Gostovic, "Multilinear correlation functions between risk factors from coronary heart desease database". Atherosclerosis 2 Suppl; (2001): 127
  8. G. Krstacic, D. Gamberger, M. Martinis, A. Krstacic, A. Smalcelj, M. Jembrek-Gostovic, "Inductive machine learning results from a coronary heart desease database", Atherosclerosis 2 Suppl; (2001): 127
  9. M. Jembrek-Gostovic, I. Heim, V. Jonke, M. Gostovic, M. Lopac Babajko, G. Krstacic, Hypercholesterolemia, coronary artery disease and treatment in Croatia, Atherosclerosis, 2 Suppl. (2001): 129-130.
  10. G. Krstacic, M. Martinis, J. Crnugelj, "Correlations between risk factors in coronary heart disease". Atherosclerosis, Supp; 2000: 316.