Koraljka Hat

After years of clinical practice, I felt the need to participate in efforts to understand and solve specific problems, hoping that my research work could make a positive impact in clinical medicine and improve existing practices and treatments.

Koraljka Hat, MD, is a maxillofacial surgeon, fellow in head and neck plastic surgery, Department of oral and maxillofacial surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia. In addition to my clinical work, I participate as an associate in teaching in the subject Maxillofacial Surgery and Stomatology at the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb.

Doctor Hat graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, in 2005. She later joined the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery at Dubrava University Hospital as a resident in maxillofacial surgery and completed an official residency program in 2012. Since 2018, she has been a certified subspecialist in plastic surgery of the head and neck in Croatia. 

Doctor Hat is now collaborator on both Croatian Science Foundation and Scientific Center of Excellence for Reproductive and Regenerative Medicine scientific projects, author and co-author of several scientific and professional papers and has participated as a lecturer in numerous national and international medical conferences.

My research could contribute to a better understanding of sex-related differences in the hormonal regulation of human lacrimal gland function, and consequently to a better understanding of the development of dry eye disease as well as the development of targeted sex-selective therapy in the future.

During work, she often remembers the sentence: choose a job you love, and you will never work a day in your life! The clinical work gives her additional energy for activities with her family. Being a mother of two and a surgeon requires lots of coordination, organization, and energy, but at the end of the day, medicine is not a job, but a way of life.