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Prof. Dr. Stevan Baljosevic, a well-known Yugoslav and Serbian infectologist, passed away at the age of 82 after a long and severe illness, his son Dr. Ivan Baljosevic confirmed for Kosovo online.
Baljosevic was born on August 22, 1938 in Orahovac.
He received his doctorate in 1975 from the Belgrade University Faculty of Medicine.
He completed his specialization in clinical immunology in Paris in 1975/76. years.
He has taught theory and practice since 1973 at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, and then at Krusevac and Kosovska Mitrovica, where he was transferred in 1999 from the University of Pristina.
Due to his extensive knowledge of infectology and border medical disciplines, he mentored 11 master’s theses and 10 doctoral dissertations, which were successfully defended at the Prishtina College of Medicine and Dentistry.
He has been dealing with infectious diseases his entire working life.
He was head of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Tract (1975-2000), director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the Pristina Clinical Hospital Center (1976-2003) and director of the Pristina Clinical Hospital Center (1993-1998).
As chairman of the Yugoslav Commission for UNICEF from 1984 to 1988, he participated in the implementation of global activities for the welfare of children in various fields, mainly in developing countries.
He affirmed his views on the general application of vaccination against infectious diseases, on the Yugoslav experience, on the basis of which the SFRY, the FRY and Serbia received important recognitions at the UNICEF assemblies in New York, Paris, Geneva and Rome.
He has written, presented and published 127 professional and scientific papers in professional meetings, symposia and congresses of infectologists, pediatricians, epidemiologists, internists, immunologists, rheumatologists and hepatologists in the country and abroad, as well as in congresses of the Balkan Medical Union and infectologists in European countries.
He was also a member of the Association of Infectious Diseases of the French Language and the Balkan Medical Union, Secretary General of the Association of Doctors of Kosovo and Metohija, member of the Board of the Serbian Medical Association, the Association of Medical Associations of Yugoslavia and the Balkan Medical Union.
He was elected an associate member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Serbian Medical Association in 1985 and a full member in 1988.
He was also a member of the presidency of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
For his dedicated work in the Serbian Medical Association, Academy of Medical Sciences, University and social commitment, he received a Certificate of Appreciation, Diploma and Charter from the Serbian Medical Association, and in 2009 the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Medical Association. Serbia
He is the winner of the Italian UNICEF Medal, the Yugoslav UNICEF Plaque and the Plaque of the Yugoslav Association of Medical Societies. He is also the winner of the City of Pristina October Award and the University of Pristina Vidovdan Recognition for the spiritual and scientific elevation of university thought.
On the occasion of 45 years of work of the Pristina Faculty of Medicine, in 2014 in Kosovska Mitrovica, he received a letter of thanks for his contribution to the educational and scientific development of the Pristina Faculty of Medicine.
He was also awarded the Order of Labor and the Order of Merit for the People of the RFSY.
He left behind his son doc. Dra. Ivana, specialist in otorhinolaryngology, daughter Biljana, physics teacher and granddaughter.
Stevan Baljosevic will be buried on Thursday 21 January in Krusevac.
(Kurir.rs/Tanjug)
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