Milica Ćulafić, PhD

Farmaceutski fakultet

Position: Assistant professor
Organizational unit: Department of Pharmacokinetics and Clinical Pharmacy
Address: Vojvode Stepe 450, 11221 Beograd, Srbija
Room: B306
Phone: +381 11 3951-375
Fax: +381 11 3972-840
Email: mculafic@pharmacy.bg.ac.rs

CV

After graduating from the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Pharmacy, Dr. Milica Ćulafić attended postgraduate specialization in Pharmaceutical Care. She continued her education at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of London, Great Britain (UCL School of Pharmacy), where she obtained the title Master of Science - Cum Laude in Clinical Pharmacy. She enrolled in Clinical Pharmacy specialization in 2013. She defended her doctoral dissertation in the field of Pharmacokinetics and Clinical Pharmacy in September 2020.

Since October 2012, she has been involved in patient care at the Department of Hepatology, Clinic for Gastroenterology and Hepatology of the Clinical Center of Serbia, and since 2013 has been a member of the liver transplant team, where she works as a pharmacotherapy consultant. She is continuously improving through numerous trainings organized by the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association (UKCPA), King's College Hospital London, UK and Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, UAE.

She participates in the designing of the curriculum and conducting practical classes for Clinical Pharmacy undergraduate course; in the implementation of practical classes in Pharmacokinetics and Selected Chapters of Clinical Pharmacokinetics courses. She is a co-mentor of several student research/graduate theses. She participated in the implementation of 10 projects "Pharmacotherapeutic Approach", "Patient Counseling", organized by the Student Association (BPSA). She was invited as a lecturer for the Association for Hemostasis and Thrombosis of Serbia, the Congress of Internal Medicine of Serbia and the Congress of Serbian Pharmacists.

She is a member of the working group of the Pharmaceutical Chamber of Serbia for the introduction of structured counseling on diabetes. She is an associate of Internal Medicine Section of the Serbian Medical Association. She is a member of the European Society of Clinical Pharmacy (ESCP) and Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Association (SOTPA).

To date, she has published over 40 papers and abstracts.

  • Culafic M, Vezmar Kovacevic S, Dopsaj V, Stulic M, Vlaisavljevic Z, Miljkovic B, Culafic D. A simple index for Nonalcoholic Staetohepatitis-HUFA-Based on routinely performed blood tests. Medicina 2019. 55(6), 243.

  • Culafic M, Vezmar Kovacevic S, Dopsaj V, Oluic B, Bidzic N, Miljkovic B, Culafic D. Pentoxifylline with Metformin improves biochemical parameters in Patients with Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. J Med Biochem 38: 1–9, 2019.

  • Stulic M, Culafic D, Boricic I, Stojkovic Lalosevic M, Pejic N, Jankovic G, Milovanovic T, Culafic-Vojinovic V, Vlaisavljevic Z and Culafic M. Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy: A Case Study of the Rare Onset in the First Trimester. Medicina 2019, 55(8), 454; https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina55080454
  • Stulic M, Culafic D, Obrenovic R, Jankovic G, Alempijevic T, Stojkovic Lalosevic M, Dostanic N, Vezmar Kovacevic S, Culafic M. The Clinical Importance of Cystatin C and Hepatic Artery Resistive Index in Liver Cirrhosis. Medicina 2018, 54(3), 37
  • Vucicevic K, Miljkovic B, Golubovic B, Jovanovic M, Vezmar Kovacevic S, Culafic M, Kovacevic M. Expectations, concerns, and needs of patients who start drugs for chronic conditions. A prospective observational study among community pharmacies in Serbia. European Journal of General Practice. 2018 Dec;24(1):19-25. doi: 10.1080/13814788.2017.1388778. Epub 2017 Nov 22.
  • Kovačević M, Ćulafić M, Jovanović M, Vučićević K, Vezmar Kovačević S, Miljković B. Impact of community pharmacists' interventions on asthma self-management care. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. 2018 Jun;14(6):603-611. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2017.07.007. Epub 2017 Jul 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2017.07.007
  • Antonijevic N, Zivkovic I, Jovanovic Lj, Matic D, Kocica M, Mrdovic I, Kanjuh V, Culafic M. Dabigatran – metabolism, pharmacologic properties and drug interactions. Current Drug Metabolism. 2017.Vol: 18(7):622-635. doi: 10.2174/1389200218666170427113504.
  • Vezmar Kovačević S, Miljković B, Vučićević K, Ćulafić M, Kovačević M, Golubović B, Jovanović M, de Gier JJ. Elderly polypharmacy patients’needs and concerns regarding medication assessed using the Structured Patient-Pharmacist Consultation Model. Pat Educ Couns. 2017; 100(9):1714-1719. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2017.05.001. Epub 2017 May 1.
  • Vezmar Kovacevic S, Simisic M, Stojkov Rudinski S, Culafic M, Vucicevic K, Prostran M, Miljkovic B. Potentially inappropriate prescribing in older primary care patients. PLoS One. 2014; 9:e95536