02.03.2010.
The Military Medical Academy celebrates 166th anniversary
On occasion of 166 anniversary of the Military Medical Academy a number of celebrations were held today. The ceremonious session of the Staff of Professor as a central event was attended among others by the Head of MMA, professor Major General Miodrag Jevtic, PhD, with his associates and the Chief of the Health Department Brigadier General Veljko Todorovic, and the Head of the Military Academy Brig Gen. Mladen Vuruna and other important guests.Head of the Military Medical Academy, professor Major General Miodrag Jevtic stressed that MMA during 2009 had increased its capacities by10 to20%.
- Only last year we examined half a million people, we provided hospital treatment to 35000 people, performed more than 24000 surgeries with over 3000 diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Liver transplants, living and cadaver kidney transplants are already done routinely. With our support the Nis Clinical Center managed to master the technique of kidney transplant which proves that MMA does not live at 17 Crnotravska Street, but in every part of the country, as Jevtic said underlining that the focus of MMA is medical care of military professionals who, as he pointed out should not wait for a particular medical service and care.
Furthermore, in his address, General Jevtic said that six doctors got their PhD degree, 42 doctors specialized, twenty of whom were civilians, and two foreign student.Incorporating the Military Medical Review to the list of the most prestigious medical journals in the world is one of our greatest accomplishments in 2009. The fist laureate for the “author of the year” award beyond the military medical service among 500 candidates is the Dean of the Nis School of Medicine professor MilanVisjic, MD.
This was also an occasion to award traditional awards to the most important partners and friends of MMA as well as to the member of these institution members who made the largest contribution with top results.
This ceremony started with the promotion and award to specialist and subspecialists who spent the previous four or five years specializing in MMA.Head of the Sector for Education and Research professor Mirjana Zivotic Vanovic in her address to the youngest doctors specialists in the system of defense stressed the importance of continuous advancement of new medical skills.
The Head of the Military Medical Academy Major General Miodrag Jevtic, MD also revealed the statute to the medical colonel Mihajlo Mika Markovic, one the founders of the medical service in the Serbian army and a long-standing Chairperson of the Serbian Medical Association. The author is academic Vladimir Jokanovic, PhD.
The MMA executive reps also laid a wreath to the memorial plaque at the entrance to the MMA.
