Dragan Primorac MD, PhD

Professor Dragan Primorac, MD, PhD, is a pediatrician, geneticist, and forensic expert witness. He became the first recipient of the title "Global Penn State University Ambassador" since the University was established in 1855. According to one of the leading World publishers, Elsevier BV, Prof. Primorac, for the last four years, has been on the list of 2% of top world scientists for career-long and single-year impact.

Currently, he serves as a professor at Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, and the University of New Haven in the United States, and as a professor at Medical Schools in Split, Rijeka, and Osijek as well as at REGIOMED Medical School, in Germany. In October 2016. he was appointed a visiting professor at the College of Medicine and Forensics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, the People's Republic of China, while in March of 2021., he was honored with the title “Professor Emeritus” at the National Forensic Science University of India.

He authored nearly three hundred scientific papers, abstracts, and 20 books or book chapters. Prof. Primorac has been invited to give lectures at 150 conferences all around the World. His work was published in the most cited journals, including Science and Nature. So far, his papers have been cited close to 8600 times (Google Scholar). He mentored 16 Ph.D. students and two students during their master's degree process.