Specialist in internal medicine, subspecialist in clinical immunology and allergology
Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade
Clinic of Allergy and Immunology, University Clinical Center of Serbia
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4589-7344
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Current Positions
- Assistant Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, specialized field: Clinical Immunology and Allergy (2024–present)
- Research Associate, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, specialized field: Inflammation and Autoimmunity (2024–present)
- Clinical Immunologist and Allergist, Clinic of Allergy and Immunology, University Clinical Center of Serbia
- President of the Serbian Group for Primary Immunodeficiencies (SGPI) (2024–present)
- External Expert – Consultant for Immunomodulatory and Antineoplastic Drugs, Medicines and Medical Devices Agency of Serbia (2022–present)
- Judge, Court of Honor, Regional Medical Chamber of Belgrade (2022–present)
- Member of the Ethics Committee of Serbia (2019–present)
Education
- Doctor of Medical Sciences (PhD) – Field: Inflammation and Autoimmunity, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade (2022)
- Doctoral Dissertation: Significance of Biomarkers and Specific Diagnostic Procedures in Early Detection and Variable Phenotypic Expression of Takayasu Arteritis
- Subspecialist in Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade (2019)
- Final Thesis: Significance of FDG PET-CT in Detecting and Assessing the Distribution and Activity of Large Vessel Vasculitis
- Specialist in Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade
- Academic Studies in Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade (2011)
- Final Thesis: Autoimmunity in Primary Immunodeficiencies
- Doctor of Medicine (MD), Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade (2002)
Certificates from Relevant International Professional Associations
- 🏆 Certificate of Excellence in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI & UEMS exam) – October 18, 2021
- 🎓 EULAR Course / Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, EULAR Certificate – June 19, 2019
📌Study Visits at International Research Institutions
- Study visit in the United Kingdom: St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK; Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Savić (February/March 2024)
- Study visit in the United Kingdom: Royal Infirmary University Hospital Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK; Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Stroud (March 2024)
📌Research Interests
🔬 Primary Immunodeficiencies (Inborn Errors of Immunity – IEI) and Secondary Immunodeficiencies
🩸 Large Vessel Vasculitis (LVV, Takayasu Arteritis and Giant Cell Arteritis)
🧬 IgG4-Related Disease (IgG4-RD)
🔬 Interstitial Lung Disease in the Context of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases
🧬 Sepsis Immunology
📌Significant Professional National and International Recognitions
- Recipient of a Commendation from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, for a doctoral dissertation with a cumulative impact factor over 5.
- Acknowledgment from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, for outstanding contribution to the fight against COVID-19, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Faculty.
- Acknowledgment from CSNIRS for supporting activities and improving students’ research work in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
- Scholarship from the European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID) for participation in the 3rd ESID PID School.
- Presented work: An Unusual Clinical Course of Agammaglobulinemia in a Female Patient
- Scholarship from the Clinical Immunology Society (CIS) and ESID for participation in the 2024 IAPIDS Advanced Clinical Immunology Training and Career Building Course, February 8–11, 2024, Sonesta Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
- Presented work: Rapidly Progressive Neurocognitive Disorder in a Patient with an IEI
- Lilic-Abinun Foundation Scholarship, July 24, 2023, for professional training in Clinical Immunology, University of Newcastle, UK, RVI Hospital under the mentorship of Dr. Catherine Stroud, and St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Siniša Savić.
- Grant from the European Vasculitis Society (EUVAS) for participation in the 5th EUVAS Vasculitis Training Course, September 28–30, 2023, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
- Lilic-Abinun Foundation Scholarship for participation in the Advanced Winter PID School, February 8–10, 2023, Newcastle, UK.
- Presented work: Many Faces of a Protracted SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Patient with Autosomal-Recessive Agammaglobulinemia and Enteropathy
- ESID Scholarship for participation in the 1st ESID PID School, 2022, Zagreb, Croatia.
- Presented work: COVID-19 in a Patient with an IEI
- Certificate of Excellence in Allergology and Clinical Immunology, European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), based on passing the international EAACI/UEMS exam (October 18, 2021).
- Scholarship from the German Society for Immunology (DGfI) for participation in the 9th Translational Immunology School, March 19–21, 2020, Potsdam/Freiburg, Germany.
- EUVAS Grant for participation in the 3rd EUVAS Vasculitis Training Course, September 23–25, 2023, Cambridge, UK.
- Presented work: Management of Takayasu Arteritis
- EAACI Grant for participation in the EAACI Winter Immunology School, January 24–27, 2019, Trysil, Norway.
- Presented work: HLA–B52 is Strongly Associated with Disease Severity in Takayasu’s Arteritis Patients in Serbia
- Travel Grant from the World Allergy Organization (WAO) and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology (AAAAI) for participation in the AAAAI/WAO Joint Congress, March 2–5, 2018, Orlando, Florida, USA.
- Presented work: Autoantibody Profile in Treatment-Naïve Patients with Takayasu Arteritis
- EULAR Scholarship for participation in the 18th EULAR Postgraduate Course, October 22–25, 2017, Belgrade.
- Presented case: Takayasu Arteritis
- EFIS Scholarship for participation in the 9th EFIS-EJI South East European Immunology School, September 8–11, 2017, Lviv, Ukraine.
- Presented work: Lupus Anticoagulant Positivity in Takayasu’s Arteritis Patients: Can We Predict or Prevent Severe Vascular Complications?
- American-Austrian Foundation (AAF) Scholarship for participation in the Internal Medicine Seminar – Open Medical Institute, Columbia University (New York, USA), February 2017, Salzburg, Austria.
- Presented case: Takayasu Arteritis – A Long Way to Final Diagnosis