Tomica Milosavljević


Tomica Milosavljević is a Serbian doctor and politician. He served as Minister of Health in the Government of Serbia in three terms with the total span of seven years. He is also employed as a full professor at the University of Belgrade and works in the Clinical Centre of Serbia in Belgrade.

Education

He finished elementary and high school in Paraćin, as the winner of Vuk diploma. He graduated from the Belgrade Medical School in 1979, where he also finished his master's degree studies in 1983 and PhD in 1988. He is a specialist of internal medicine with sub specialization of gastroenterology. Milosavljević finished professional postgraduate specialization in Munich, Amsterdam and London.

Medical and political career

He is one of the founders of once prominent Serbian political party G17 Plus, and was vice president until 2010, and Chairman of G17 plus board of the City of Belgrade, until 2009.
He was appointed as Minister of Health in the Government of Serbia for three times. In 2002 he was elected for the first time, re-elected on 3 March 2004, and once again re-elected on 15 May 2007.
From 2005 to 2008 he served as a member of the Standing Committee for Europe, and from 2009 to 2012 member of the Executive Board of WHO in Geneva. In September 2007 he was the 57th President Session of WHO Europe held in Belgrade, President of the European Conference on Palliative Care, held in Belgrade, in 2005, 2007, Vice-President of the European Conference on Migration and Health held in Bratislava - Slovakia, 2008th The Vice President of the European Conference on health systems in Tallinn, Estonia.
Since 2008 member of the Board of Eagen - re-elected period to 2019, from 2012.do 2015th, as a representative of EAGEN is a member of the General Assembly of the UEG. Between 1998 and 2002 he was president of the Yugoslav Association of Digestive Endoscopy, 2004-2008. Chairman of the Yugoslav coloproctology society from 2009 to 2013. President of the Serbian Association of Gastroenterology. In 2008, he was vice president of the World Congress of the International Association of Surgeons, Gastroenterologists and Oncologists in Beijing, China. In 2009 he was president of the European Bridgining Meeting in Gastroenterology held in Belgrade. He organized and was co-director of "Postgraduate Course Eagen" in Belgrade 2007, 2009 and 2011, as well as in Milocer, Montenegro 2013.
During his ministerial mandate the Agency for Medicines, Serbia was established and legally regulated and established the Chamber of employees in the health care system, Agency for Accreditation of Health Institutions, as well as the Chamber of health institutions, established in accordance with the law, Health Council of Serbia, introduced a law regulating protection of patients' rights. He has published about 300 papers, book chapters and monographs, papers in national and international journals, of which 3o cited in SCI, with over 100 citations in the foreign professional and scientific literature. The lecturer was invited to several universities abroad as well as at meetings of international importance under the auspices of the UEG, accredited by the European Board of Gastroenterology.

Personal life

He is married and has three children.

Publications

Books