page_title: Darko Šarović
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Darko Šarović / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Darko Sarovic presenting his research at the European Students' Congress in Berlin, 2011
context_page_description: Darko Šarović is a Serbian medical doctor and athlete who specialises in the 60 meter and 100 meter sprint events. He is the fifth fastest serb of all time, and the Serbian record holder U23 in the 100 m. Sarovic is a Balkan 100 m Champion, and 60 m and 4 × 100 m bronze medallist. He is also the Serbian Champion in the 100 m, 200 m and the pole vault events and Serbian U23 Champion in the 100 m, 400 m and 4 × 100 m. Sarovic represented the Serbian National Athletics Team in the 60 m, 100 m, 200 m, and 4 × 100 m.
  In 2009 he finished the IB Diploma Programme and in 2015 he graduated from the University of Belgrade School of Medicine and earned the title Medical Doctor. He is a PhD student at the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology at Gothenburg University.
  He is a licensed physician in Sweden. He holds both Serbian and Swedish citizenships.
context_section_description: Šarović finished the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at Sven-Eriksonsgymnasiet to receive a bilingual diploma. After high school, in 2009, he enrolled in the 6 year long Medicine and Surgery program at the Medical Faculty at Belgrade University. In 2010, he got elected as the best student having the highest grade point average at the English Medical Faculty.
  He graduated in 2015 after defending his graduation thesis in child plastic and neurosurgery on the topic of craniosynostosis. He did a clinical internship with integrated research (forskar-AT) at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg.
  
  During his second year he started doing research at the Institute of anatomy. He conducted research on  the development of schizophrenia due to retarded development of the hippocampus induced by maternal deprivation; he presented his findings at the 22nd  European Students Conference in Berlin and his abstract "morphometric analysis of hippocampus in maternally deprived rats" was published in the European Journal of Medical Research. During his third year, Šarović started doing research at the Institute of Biochemistry. He also continued with research at the Institute of Anatomy to publish a second work together with colleague Slobodan Kapor. In 2014 he presented a study with colleague Pavle Pavlovich at the International Student Congress in Graz, Austria. 
  Besides studying medicine, he has also taken courses in developmental and adolescent psychology at Gothenburg University, psychology and economy at Linnaeus University, physics, mathematics and programming at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, law at Umeå University, and philosophy and cancer genetics at University of Skövde for a total of 115ECTS points.
   He is a guest lecturer at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Sport and Physical Education. He is also a lecturer for the Anti-Doping Agency of Serbia and the Bioethical Society of Serbia on topics such as exercise physiology, psychology, medical ethics, sports ethics, and doping.
  Since 2016 he is a PhD student in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Gothenburg. He coordinates a project titled "Neurophysiological biomarkers in autism - A magnetoencephalographic study" with the aim of finding structural and functional biomarkers for autism using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) - both diagnostic biomarkers that can aid the clinical diagnostic procedure, and therapeutic biomarkers that can be used to follow up on the effect of pharmacological and therapeutic interventions.
caption: Šarović presenting his research at the European Students' Congress in Berlin, September 2011
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