Date and place of birth: 5 September, 1957 / Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Primary School (1964-1972) – Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Secondary School (1972-1975) – Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Medical Faculty (1975-1980) – University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina Postgraduate Study (1982-1985) – University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina M.D. (1980) – University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
M.D. (German) (2014) – Charité, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany M.Sc. (1985) – University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Ph.D. (1990) – University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina Habilitation (1990) – University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina Habilitation (1994) – University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Umhabilitation (1996) – Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Professor (apl) (2000) – Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
General Surgery (1980-1986) – (Certification 1986) University of Zagreb, Croatia
Vascular Surgery (1980-1989) – (Certification 1990) University of Zagreb, Croatia; (German Certification 2016) Berlin, Germany
Cardiac Surgery (1980-1993) – (German Certification 1998) Berlin, Germany
WORKING PLACES:
Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina 1980-1981 Belgrade, Serbia 1981-1982
Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina 1983-1985 Ljubljana, Slovenia 1985
Belgrade, Serbia 1985
Zagreb, Croatia 1986
Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina 1986-1988 Zagreb, Croatia 1988-1989
Ulm, Germany 1989
Zürich, Switzerland 1989-1994
Bern, Switzerland, 2018
Berlin, Germany 1.1.1995 – presently
2001 – 2014 – Deputy Head of Department for Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
PUBLICATIONS:
272 papers cited 5867 times, h-index 41 (data from Scopus, 18 April 2021)