Professional training:

Training Program, Research institute of circulation pathology Meshalkin, Novosibirsk, 2016
Pediatric and congenital interventional EP curriculum (Brompton Royal Hospital – London, Leiden University, Bergamo, Barcelona), 2018.
Interventional EP Curriculum, Ventricular tachycardia Module (San Rafaele – Milan), 2021.

Memberships and publications:

He is a member of the European Association of Cardiologists, the European Association for Heart Rhythm Disorders and the Association of Cardiologists of Serbia.

He is the author and co-author of 130 works in their entirety, 37 of which are indexed in the JCR list, he is the author of two chapters in textbooks and books on cardiology. Participant of a large number of foreign and domestic congresses, where he held several invited lectures in the field of heart rhythm disorders. He was an active participant in a number of highly specialized courses in invasive electrophysiology in the country and abroad.

Special interest:

arrhythmology and invasive heart electrophysiology.

Professional training:

2013 Memorial Hermann and St Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, USA

Memberships and Publications:

He is a member of the Association of Cardiologists of Serbia, the European Association of Cardiologists, the European Working Group for Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases, the European Association for Heart Failure, the European Association for Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions, the European Working Group for Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation.

He is the author and co-author of 124 papers in their entirety, 84 of which are indexed in the JCR list, as well as 8 chapters in textbooks and books on cardiology. Participant of a large number of foreign and domestic congresses, where he gave invited lectures in the field of non-invasive and invasive cardiological diagnostics.

Area of interest:

interventional cardiology and echocardiography

Other scientific and professional activities, awards and recognitions:

Secretary of postgraduate studies in cardiology, Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade (1994-2002)
Secretary of the Cardiology Section of SLD (1995–1999)
President of the section for the application of ultrasound in medicine of SLD (1998-2004)
President of the working group for valvular defects of the Association of Cardiologists of Serbia and Montenegro (1998-2006)
President of the cardiology section of SLD (2005-2007)
President of the Imaging Working Group of the Association of Cardiologists of Serbia (2009-2013)
Member of the Presidency of the Serbian Medical Association 2013-2015
He is one of the founders of the Association for Echocardiography of Yugoslavia/Serbia (2000) and the Association for Congenital Heart Defects of Serbia (2021).
Diplomas and letters of thanks from the SLD, the Association of Cardiology of Serbia and the European Association of Cardiologists, the Charter of the SLD, the Grammar of Patriarch Pavle
Award for scientific work of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Serbia for 2002/2003

Professional and academic activities:

Member of the Serbian Medical Association (from 1976-)
Member of the Association of Cardiologists of Serbia (from 1979- )
Member of the European Association of Cardiologists (from 1980- )
Member of the European Association for Echocardiography (1998-2012)
Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC)
Member of the Board for Cardiovascular Pathology, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 2023
Member and president of the commission for admission and promotion of associates and teachers of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade (2002–2016)

Editorials, publications and mentoring:

Member of the editorial board of national magazines: “Cardiology”, “Medicinski podmladak” and “Heart and Blood Vessels”.
“Editor of the magazine Serbian archive for holistic medicine”, editor of recommendation of the European Society of Cardiology.
More than 570 publications, including 136 in extent papers in domestic and international peer-reviewed journals and 35 chapters in books and textbooks.

Advanced training:

• 1990 Training in transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography at the Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
• 1993 Training in transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography at the Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, USA
• 2001 Elective and primary percutaneous coronary intervention training, Careggi Hospital, Florence, Italy (full time fellowship)

Areas of interest:

· Urgent echocardiography

· Interventional cardiology

· Acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, left ventricular function

International Committees:

2008 – 2012 Board member, European Association of Echocardiography
1999 – Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (F.E.S.C.)
2001 – Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (F.A.C.C.)

Editorial Boards:

Member of the editorial board of “Cardiovascular Ultrasound” and “European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Imaging”

Publications:

· 97 papers in extenso in international journals indexed in Current Contents/SCI (papers cited more than 1700 times, cumulative impact factor 340, H-index 19)

· Co-editor of the book “Emergency Echocardiography”, Taylor & Francis, London, 2005 – the first publication in this field in the world, and 2016 (2nd edition)

· Co-editor of the book “Stress echocardiography: Essential Guide and DVD”, Informa Healthcare, London/New York, 2010.

· 10 chapters in international books

· Chairman of the committee for writing recommendations for emergency echocardiography of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) (2013) and focus-ultrasound of the heart (2014)

Work experience:

• 1997 he completed his basic medical internship at the Medical Faculty of the University of Belgrade
• 1998 he was employed at the Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases in Dedinje – Head of the Coronary Unit
• 2011 he became a Clinical Assistant at the Internal Medicine course at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Belgrade
• 2010-2015 he stayed four times for 3 months each at the Chest Disease Hospital in Kuwait, where he worked as the head of the coronary unit and at the interventional cardiology department

Professional training:

He attended clinical training at St Johns Hospital in Detroit, USA and at the Kerckoff Clinic in Bad Nauheim, Germany.

Memberships:

He is a member of the Association of Cardiologists of Serbia and the European Association of Cardiologists, as well as the American-Austrian medical foundation.