Cardiac surgery
Prof. dr. Miljko Ristić
A cardiac surgeon with an international reputation and more than 15,000 heart operations performed. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences.
He headed the Clinical Center of Serbia and the "Dedinje" Cardiac Surgery Clinic, and trained in Brussels, Paris, Houston and Zurich.
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Prof. Dr. Miljko Ristić – Biography
Prof. Dr. Miljko Ristić is a cardiac surgeon with a strong international reputation. During his professional career he has performed more than 15,000 heart surgeries. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences.
Education:
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade – undergraduate studies, 1972
- Specialization in general surgery, 1979
- Postgraduate studies, doctoral thesis “Reconstruction of the Mitral Valve”, 1986
- Subspecialization in vascular surgery, 2002
- Subspecialization in cardiac surgery, 2008
- Certificate of the European Association for Cardiovascular Surgery
Professional training:
- Belgian Government scholarship: Clinique Saint Luc, Bruxelles, Department de Chirurgie Cardiovasculaire (1 year)
- L’Hopital Broussais Paris, Chirurgie Cardiaque (3 months)
- L’Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere Paris, Chirurgie Cardiovasculaire (3 months)
- St Luke’s, Houston, Cardiac Surgery (1 month)
- Medical University Hospital, Zurich (1 month)
Current position:
Cardiology coordinator at the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia
Previous positions:
Director, Clinical Center of Serbia
Director, Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, Clinical Center of Serbia
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade
Director of the “Dedinje” Cardiac Surgery Clinic
Director of the Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, Clinical Center of Serbia
Positions:
Member of the European Academy of Sciences
Member of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts
President of the Serbian Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery
President of the Belgrade Resuscitation Council
President of the Medical Commission of the Football Association of Serbia
Member of the Medical Commission of the Olympic Committee of Serbia
Member of the European Association for Cardiovascular Surgery
Member of the National Medicines Committee
President of the National Committee for Standards in Cardiac Surgery
President of the National Committee for Control and Regularity of Practice
President of the Cardiac Surgery Working Group of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia
Member of the Board of the Blood Transfusion Institute
Member of the Board of the Anti-Doping Agency of the Republic of Serbia
Teaching activities:
Institution: Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, Clinical Center of Serbia,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade
Subjects: Cardiac Surgery, Vascular Surgery, General Surgery
Title: Full Professor of General, Vascular and Cardiac Surgery
(chair of the board for student exams in General Surgery, chair of the board for specialist exams in General Surgery and member of the board for the subspecialist exam in Cardiac Surgery)
Invitations abroad:
Invited lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine in Chengdu, China
Invited lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine in Leiden, the Netherlands
Invited lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine in Brussels, Belgium
Invited lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine in Caracas, Venezuela
Research and publications:
- “Biological Valves” project
- “Vancomycin study” project
- Textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate studies “The Mitral Valve”
- Editor and author of three chapters in the book “Cardiology for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies”
- Author of a chapter in the book “Orthopedics for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies”
- Author of a chapter in the book “Emergency Medicine for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies”
- Author of a chapter in the book “Vascular Surgery for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies”
- Editor and author of several chapters of the textbook “Surgery” for medical students
- Author of two chapters in the book “Sports Medicine for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies”
- Author and co-author of more than 200 medical papers
- Book “Famous Serbian Doctors” (Arterial grafts in cardiac surgery, Reconstruction of the mitral valve, Reconstruction of the tricuspid valve, Aorta thoracalis ascendens,
- Off-pump surgery – the first operations performed in the former Yugoslavia, i.e. Serbia)
- Mentor of 32 master’s and doctoral theses
Professional contribution:
Prof. Dr. Miljko Ristić has performed more than 15,000 operations on the heart and blood vessels, as well as in general, abdominal and endocrine surgery
