Dražan Erić, PhD

18.01.2021.

I was born in 1978 in Sarajevo. I finished my primary school in Podlugovi, and I finished a grammar school in Brčko. I graduated from the Faculty of Medicine Foča in 2003 as the best student in generation with average grade 9.59. I was chosen as the first student vicedean of the University in East Sarajevo in 2000. I was awarded best student of the Republic of Srpska in 2001 by the President. I was a founder and the first president of the Students’ Association at the Faculty of Medicine Foča. I enrolled in postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Medicine Foča, and I defended my master thesis “Anatomical characteristics of the arterial vascularization of the palm” in 2008. I became a specialist in plastic and reconstructive surgery in 2009, with great success. I defended my doctoral thesis “Reconstruction of the lower leg with neurocutaneous flaps – anatomical and clinical study” in 2013 at the Faculty of Medicine Foča. I was appointed assistant professor of surgery at the Faculty of Medicine Foča in 2014, and I became associate professor in 2019. My team and I were the first in the Republic of Srpska to perform a complex microsurgical operation on hand replantation in 2015. I was the President of the Medical Association of the Republic of Srpska, a member of the Council for Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Government of the Republic of Srpska, and I am currently Vice President of the National Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I became the honorary professor at the Department of Surgery at Rajiv Ghandi University of Health Sciences, Navodaya Dental College and Hospital, Raichur, Karnataka in India. Since 2018, I have been workig as a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Consultant at Al Emadi Hospital in Doha, Quatar. I have won many awards for my work, including: Večernjak’s Seal for Person of the Year in Science in Bosnia and Herzegovina for 2015, the Arab Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons Award, the Charter of the Municipality of Foča, the Plaque of the University of East Sarajevo. Since 2018, I have been living and working in Qatar.