He became famous at the beginning of last year, when his team managed to eliminate the waiting list for operations at the Cardiac Surgery Clinic in Niš. Today, he announced that Nis is "the first free city in Serbia". Who is Dr. Dragan Milić?
The director of the Clinic for Cardiac Surgery in Niš, Dragan Milić, announced the victory of the opposition in this city immediately after the announcement of the first results of the local elections. He called Niš "the first free city in Serbia".
Milić announced that there will be no cooperation with the Serbian Progressive Party in Niš, and that the government in the city will be formed by the opposition.
"Our only interest is our city, and let there be no misunderstanding, since it has been said so many times that we are a Trojan horse and some kind of planted column - there will be no cooperation with SNS." Niš is not for sale and will never be for sale. There are no such functions and no money that would wash away the stain that Niš has gone through for the last twelve years," said Dr. Dragan Milić, announcing the victory in Niš.
The head of the Niš Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, Dragan Milić, became known to the general public at the beginning of last year, when he and his team, with free work for twelve weekends, managed to abolish the waiting list for surgery at his institution. This move was strongly welcomed by a large part of the public, while a smaller part - took it to heart. For not very clear reasons, the director of the University Clinical Center Nis, Zoran Perišić, and the minister, Danica Grujičić, harshly criticized the unquestionably humanitarian act.
Media attacks and strange criminal charges
The criticism was followed by a whole series of "unpleasant things" that Milić and his associates perceived as an organized, fierce, political campaign. Apart from the media attacks, strange criminal charges were filed against them, to say the least, the police interrogated them on several occasions, and then Milić was removed from the position of vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Nis.
And that's not all: the decision was made that there is no place for him at the university. The climax was reached when the administration of the University Hospital Nis prevented the procurement of reagents for the laboratory of the Cardiac Surgery Clinic, which forced it to stop working.
Who is Dragan Milic?
In Milić's official biography, he states that he completed primary and secondary school in Prokuplje "as a student of his generation", and "Južne vesti" adds that he began his education in England, at the "Richard Lee" school, where he studied from 1969 to 1972. .
"He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Niš with an average grade of 9,91. He has completed a total of three specializations in: general surgery, vascular surgery and cardiac surgery and has the titles of general surgeon, vascular surgeon and cardiac surgeon. He completed general surgery in Niš, and vascular surgery and cardiac surgery at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade. He received his master's degree in 2001 and his doctorate in 2005 at the Faculty of Medicine in Niš," he states in his biography, as reported by Istinomer.
He also states that he was elected to the position of associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Niš in 2019.
"Prof. Dr. Dragan Milić has been employed at KC Niš since 1998. Since 2001, he has been working at the vascular surgery department of the Clinic for General Surgery of KC Niš as a general surgeon. After completing the subspecialization in vascular surgery, he was assigned to the post of vascular surgery subspecialist in the Clinic for General Surgery of KC Niš. After the establishment of the Clinic for Vascular Surgery, he was appointed to the position of head of the department of phlebology, and then to the position of assistant director of the Clinic for Vascular Surgery of KC Niš in 2008 and 2010," he notes in his biography.
It is added that after the opening of the Clinic for Cardiovascular and Transplantation Surgery of KC Niš in November 2014, he was appointed its first director, and after the restructuring of KC Niš and the formation of the Cardiac Surgery Clinic of KC Nis, in July 2017 he was appointed the first director of the Clinic.
Winner of numerous awards
He emphasizes that "he had numerous professional and scientific trainings abroad, in the USA and England".
"Member of the American Association of Surgeons - Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), member of the International Advisory Board of the International Union of Phlebologists, Member of the AVF - American Venous Forum, member of the SVS - Society for Vascular Surgery (USA), member of the EVF - European Venous Forum , member of ICC - International Compression Club, member of EWMA - European Wound Management Association, member of EACTS - European Association for Cardio Thoracic Surgery. He is the author and co-author of a total of 78 scientific papers. According to the Google Scholar database, it has 1331 citations and an h-index of 20. He is a mentor in the preparation of four doctoral dissertations and a member of the doctoral defense committee for three more candidates. He has been the president of the Serbian-American Friendship Club since its establishment in 2014 and the president of the Serbian-Israeli Friendship Society since its establishment in 2021," says Milić's biography.
"Južne vesti" states that he is the winner of the January award of the City of Niš for 2011, as a member of the team for the introduction of cardiac surgery in that city. He is also the winner of the "Zlatnik Medijane", "Master's Letter" and "Braća Karić" awards.
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