Assistant Professor
Center for Aging and Population Health
Department of Epidemiology
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
130 North Bellefield Ave, Room 542
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-383-1894
Email: miljkovici@edc.pitt.edu









Research Interests

• Epidemiology and genetics of obesity, body fat distribution, ectopic fat accumulation, and associated metabolic complications
  
  
• Successful skeletal muscle aging

Research Support (Principal Investigator)

• Epidemiology and Genetics of Skeletal Muscle Composition (2008-2013)-NIH/NIDDK
  
  
• Genetics of Lipoproteins in Afro-Caribbean Families (2006-2008)-NIH/NHLBI

Education & Training

• University of Novi Sad, School of Medicine, Novi Sad, Serbia -MD, 1999
  
  
• University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Epidemiology-PhD, 2004
  
  
• Post-Doctoral Training
  
  
  • NRSA Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (NHLBI), University of Pittsburgh, Genetic Epidemiology, 2005-2008
  • Short-Course in Statistical Genetics, University of Alabama Section on Statistical Genetics, 2005
  • Clinical Cardiovascular Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2007

Professional Memberships

• The American Society for Human Genetics
• American Heart Association
• American Diabetes Association
• North American Society for Obesity

Selected Publications

Miljkovic-Gacic I, Wang XJ, Kammerer CM, Gordon CL, Bunker CH, Kuller LH, Patrick AL, Wheeler VW, Evans RW, Zmuda JM. Fat Infiltration in Muscle: New Evidence for Familial Clustering and Associations with Diabetes. Obesity 2008; 16(8): 1854-60.

Miljkovic-Gacic I, Gordon CJ, Goodpaster BH, Bunker CH, Patrick AL, Kuller LH, Wheeler VW, Evans RW, Zmuda JM. Adipose tissue infiltration in skeletal muscle: Age patterns and association with diabetes among men of African ancestry. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2008; 87(6): 1590-5.

Miljkovic-Gacic I, Wang XJ, Kammerer CM, Bunker CH, Patrick AL, Wheeler VW, Kuller LH, Evans RW, Zmuda JM. Gender and Genetic Effects on Upper and Lower Body Fat and Associations with Diabetes in Multigenerational Families of African Heritage. Metabolism 2008; 57(6): 819-23.

Miljkovic-Gacic I, Wang XJ, Kammerer CM, Bunker CH, Wheeler VW, Patrick AL, Kuller LH, Zmuda JM. Genetic determination of Adiponectin and its Relationship with Body Fat Topography in Multigenerational Families of African Heritage. Metabolism 2007; 56 (2): 234-238

Prior SJ, Roth SM, Wang XJ, Kammerer CM, Miljkovic-Gacic I, Bunker CH, Patrick AL, Wheeler VW, Zmuda JM. Genetic and environmental influences on skeletal muscle phenotypes in large, multi-generational families of African Heritage. Journal of Applied Physiology 2007; 103: 1121-1127.

Wassel Fyr CL, Kanaya AM, Cummings SR, Reich D, Hsueh WC, Reiner AP, Harris TB, Moffett S, Li R, Ding J, Miljkovic-Gacic I, Ziv E. Genetic admixture, adipocytokines and adiposity in Black Americans: the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study. Human Genetics 2007; 121(5): 615-24.

Miljkovic-Gacic I, Bunker CH, Ferrell RE, Kammerer CM, Evans RW, Patrick AL, Kuller LH. Lipoprotein Subclass and Particle Size Differences in Afro-Caribbeans, African Americans and White Americans: Associations with Hepatic Lipase Gene Variation. Metabolism 2006; 55 (1): 96-102.

Miljkovic-Gacic I, Ferrell RE, Patrick AL, Kammerer CM, Bunker CH. Estimates of African, European and Native American Ancestry in Afro-Caribbean Men on the Island of Tobago. Human Heredity 2005; 60(3): 129-133.