Elizabeta Zisovska
University Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Elizabeta Zisovska, MD, PhD
Chief of the Department of Neonatology, University Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
elizabeta.zisovska@ugd.edu.mk
Short biography
- Trained External assessor for BFHI, Budapest 1995
- Attended and completed Training course for Evidence based medicine, Sydney, Australia, May 2001
- National Coordinator for promotion and protection of the BF, Macedonia, since 2001
- Contributor to the Revised tool for assessment and reassessment of the BFHI (WHO and UNICEF joint Comission) Sections 1,2,3,4 (2005), revision published 2009
http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/files/BFHI_Revised_Section1.pdf
http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/files/BFHI_Revised_Section2.pdf
http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/files/BFHI_2009_s3.1and2.pdf
http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/files/BFHI_2009_s4.pdf - National Coordinator for Strenghtening capacities for improving maternal and neonatal health (WHO Europe 2006-2009)-Project held by WHO Europe in SEE Countries (Neonatal network)
- Attended workshop for Development, adoption and adaptation of Clinical Guidelines, Split-Croatia, 10-13 April 2007. Agenda available on the web site of HNSEE
- Completed training Guidelines for guidelines (Geneva December 2007), acquiring knowledge about the process of Guidelines development
- Training course for GRADE methodology in conducting systematic reviews (generating evidence and grading the evidence), Geneva 2008
- Conducted Systematic review for the WHO CAH: Breast milk collection, storage and handling (2010)
- Member of the Expert Committee for Development of the Clinical Guidelines for Neonatal Seizures published in 2011(http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/77756/1/9789241548304_eng.pdf)
- Director of the established School for Evidence based medicine practice, Faculty for medical sciences. Shtip, Macedonia, in 2012 (curriculum based on both, Cochrane methodology and GRADE methodology)
- Conducted Systematic review for Evidence based use of Analgesics and anaesthetics in neonates Report 2013, page 25
(http://www.who.int/medicines/EC19uneditedReport.pdf) - Member of the National expert team for adoption and adaptation of the Clinical Guidelines in Neonatology 2008-2013
- Consultancy jobs as Regional consultant, Selected by UNICEF and MOH Serbia in 2009, with TOR: BFHI (relevance, effectiveness, sustainability, impact, efficiency, coordination, and human-rights approach) in Serbia. Contract number SSA/FRYA/2009/00000707-0
- Consultancy jobs as International consultant, Selected by UNICEF and MOH Serbia in 2011, with TOR: to draft the AP for institutionalization of the BFH concept and application of BF standards in all maternity hospitals and other health institutions on the basis of consultations with relevant stakeholders in Serbia. Contract number SSA/FRYA/2011/00000230-1
- Consultancy job as International consultant
WHO HQ Geneva as Consultant for revision of the Clinical Guidelines in neonatology-Essential newborn care (2008). Participant at the Conference in October 2008 (Report in Technical WHO series http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2010/WHO_MPS_10.03_eng.pdf)
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