MMA Head
Contact
- Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia, 17 Crnotravska St.
- MMA Head: Brigade General Prof. Marijan Novakovic, PhD. 381 11 / 266-11-22
- e-mail: vma@mod.gov.rs
Brigade General, full-time professor, doctor Marijan Novakovic, M.D., Ph.D.
He was born on 03.08.1957. in Vučitrn, where he completed the primary school with distinctions and earned the Vuk’s Diploma. He commenced his secondary education in Belgrade, where he graduated from the Military Gymnasium in 1976 and received Alas’ Diploma in Biology. That same year, he was awarded the scholarship of the Belgrade Medical School where he completed his medical studies in time, in1982. He then attended the Reserve Officers School, and graduating from that School in 1983 he joined the Military in the rank of medical lieutenant. After a year of mandatory internship cmplited at the Miliatry Medical Academy, he immediately entered the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery residency program. During his residency training, he attended the First International Plastic Surgery Course hosted by the Ljubljana Clinical Center, and underwent 3-month advanced training in Microsurgery at the Serbian Clinical Center. He passed the specialist exam with honors on October 06, 1988. Immediately upon completion of his residency program, he was assigned to the Department of Plastic Surgery of the MMA Clinic for Plastic Surgery and Burns as a plastic surgery department physician. From 2001 to 2004, he served in the position of the head of the Clinic’s Septic Burn Section, and, in 2004, he was appointed the head of the Burn Department, the position he held utill 2005. From 2005 to 2007, he headed the Plastic Surgery Department, and since 2007, he has served as the head of MMA Clinic for Plastic Surgery and Burns
From the very beginning of his clinical career as a young specialist, he performed the most complicated surgical procedures involving almost all areas of plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, and congenital anomalies and microsurgery in particular. In 1992 he became the assistent of Plastic Surgery.
In the further course of his professional development and advancement, particularly at the time of war which broke out on the territory of the Former Yugoslavia, and imposed the need for managing large numbers of casualties, he directed his work towards handling of defects by microsurgical techniques. As a result of his work, he commenced to use vascularized bones for managing defects caused by war wounds. All that led him to writing the doctoral disertation under the title ’’Vascularized fibular graft in compensation of defects of the lower extremity bone diaphysis caused by war wounds’’, which he defended on May 06, 1998. The title of Assistant Professor of Plastic Suergery was confered on him in 1999, and the title of Associate Professor in 2004. Since 2009, he has been a full-time professor of the Miliatry Medical Academy. During the 2005-2007 period, he was the head of the ’’Surgery 2’’Chair, and, from 2005, he is the president of the MMA Postgraduate Studies Councel
Colonel Prof. Dr. Marjan Novaković is actively involved in the sphere of teaching as a professor of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Kragujevac Medical School, and a permanent member of the Specialist Exam Cmmissions at the Niš and Novi Sad Medical Schools. Aesthetic Surgery is the subject he teaches in the Nursing School in Zemun., and the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is another subject he teaches at the Special Education and Rehabilitation School of the Belgrade University.
He is the author of more than 200 medical papers covering the fields of reconstructive surgery, surgery of congenital anomalies, hand surgery, aesthetic surgery and burns. He has also authored two books titled ’’Vascularized fibular graft’’, Andrejević Legacy, Belgrade, 2000, and ’’Dupuytren’s Contracture’’ Lion, Belgrade, 2009,. Chapters of the book of national importance on Burns by Popović N. and Novaković M., and the book on ’Anesthesia in Trauma’ by Arsenijević Lj., Bajec Đ., Davidović L., Dimitrijević M., Dostanić M., Đukić V. Et all, Wind Press, Belgrade, 2010, pages are also a part of his work of great significance.
In the sphere of scientific reasearch, he has been involved in the work on the MMA projects titled ’’Genetic alternations in aggressive and nonaggressive basal cell carcinomas’’, ’’Regulatory-modulator role of free amnio acids in inflamation and trauma’’, ’’ Cranial defect reconstruction’’, ’’Clinical and pathophysiological aspects of ocular changes in diabetes patients, and their advanced diagnostic and therapeutic approach’’.
Successfuly representing the Military Medical Academy, he actively participated in the several tents of professional and scientific congresses devoted to Plastic Surgery. He did as well an outstanding job by delivering a certain number of plenary lectures and lectures on call. His participation in the military medicine congreses at which unique experiences of our War Surgery were presented deserve a particular mention.
He is a member of several important international and national medical organizations and assocaitions of plastic surgeons such as : Serbian, Balkan, European and International Associations of Plastic Surgeons (SRBPRAS, BAPRAS, ESPRAS, IPRAS, ISPAS, EURAPS), Mediterranean Burn Council (MBC), and the World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery (WSRM). Since 2007, he is the president of the Serbian Assocaition of Plastic Surgeons (SRBPRAS).
In 2010, he bacame a member of the Medical Academy of the Serbian Medical Society.
His promotion into the rank of Colonel too place in 2002. During his professional career, his work was valued with the highest distinctions. He received the Best Clinical Physician Prize, and was commended and awarded several times. Among his awards, there are also Medal for Meritorious National Service with the Silver Star, White Angel Medal and Special Plaq of the Serbian Medical Society.
On February 15, 2011, by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Serbia, he was assigned to the position of the head of the Military Medical Academy.
