Prof. dr. sc. Goran Račić was born on November 11, 1948, in Split, where he completed elementary school, and then the Classical Gymnasium. He enrolled in the Medical Faculty in Zagreb in 1967 and graduated in 1972 in Split, completing the final part (18 months) and the exam in 1982 at the ORL clinic Šalata in Zagreb. He joined the teaching staff of the Medical Faculty in Zagreb, studying in Split, in 1987 by being elected to the position of research assistant. In the late eighties and early nineties, he engaged in scientific research at the HRM Institute for Maritime Medicine (Department of Hyperbaric and Underwater Medicine). There he developed and defended a doctoral thesis entitled "Treatment of Bell's Paralysis with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy." He defended his doctoral dissertation in November 1993 in Split. In May 1996, he was elected to the scientific-teaching title of assistant professor at the Medical Faculty in Zagreb for the needs of the Medical Studies in Split. He has headed the Department of Otorhinolaryngology since 1996, and in November 1999, he was elected head of the Department of Head and Neck Diseases (which combines otorhinolaryngology, ophthalmology, and maxillofacial surgery). He has written and published independently and with colleagues 46 scientific and professional papers, of which 20 are cited in CC and 26 in other cited publications. Of the 20 papers published in CC journals, 10 are in the field, and he is the first author on 6. He has participated in numerous congresses and symposia. He was the first author at 9 out of 14 international congresses and symposia. He is also an organizer and co-organizer of courses, symposia, and congresses. In addition to otosurgery and rhinoplasty, which he devoted a significant part of his education to, both in Zagreb and abroad, and has written a master's thesis in the field of otosurgery and numerous articles in otology and rhinology, he is engaged in the application of hyperbaric oxygenation in otorhinolaryngology and sleep medicine. His work, in which Bell's paralysis was treated with oxygen, was the first in the world and is cited in the chapter: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Otolaryngology In: Jain KK, Textbook of Hyperbaric Medicine. Hogrefe & Huber Publisher, 2004: 379-380. In addition to Bell's palsy, which he treated with oxygen, he conducted research on the effects of pressurized oxygen on sudden hearing loss, and published results in cited journals, also being cited in the aforementioned book by KK Jain on page 374. Together with the head of the Department of Neuroscience, he established the "Sleep lab," the first of its kind in Croatia. The laboratory is equipped with two apartments, one clinical polysomnograph (Alice 4), and one portable (Polymesam). Additionally, in this laboratory, OSA is tested with the help of pharyngoesophageal probes to detect obstruction sites during breathing cessation. This probe is the only one of its kind and application in Croatia.