prim dr Olivera Laban

Biography

Prim dr Olivera Laban, specialist in paediatrics was born on 15.12.1963 in Sarajevo, where she completed primary and secondary school with excellent results and received the silver “Ognjen Prica” badge.

She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in 1988. After completing her medical internship, she passed the professional examination and began work at the Institute for Health Protection of BiH on the World Health Organization research project "Health for All by the Year 2000". She participated as a co-author in the publications "All About AIDS for Schoolchildren and Youth" (Svetlost, Sarajevo, 1991) and "Hygiene Manual for Higher Medical Schools". As an author, she published the article "Food with Risk" in Privredne novine in 1991.

Postgraduate studies were enrolled at the Medical Faculty in Sarajevo in 1990, where she completed and passed exams in the field of Medical Ecology.

Since April 1995, began specialist training in paediatrics at the Paediatric Clinic of the Clinical Centre Kragujevac and the University Children's Clinic in Belgrade. Postgraduate studies continued at the Medical Faculty in Kragujevac, where she passed the oral final master's examination in 1996.

She passed the specialist examination in Paediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade in 1999.

Since January 2000, permanently employed as a specialist in paediatrics, and since 2002, Head of the Department of Neonatology, Gynaecological and Obstetric Clinic in Kragujevac.

During her work tenure, she participated in the work of seminars, symposia, and domestic and international congresses in paediatrics and perinatology, as an author and co-author of more than 30 papers.      

Further training focused on neonatology, and the qualification of primarijus was obtained in 2008.

Head of the Neonatology Department at the Gynaecology and Obstetrics Clinic, Kragujevac, from 2010 to the present.

He is a co-author of the book Neurosonographic Diagnostics by prof. dr Slobodan Obradović. *A basic textbook for continuing education in transfontanelle neurosonography and an auxiliary textbook for teaching neuroscience.

• Organiser and lecturer of courses "Practical problems in neonatology" from 2011 to 2015, at the Clinical Centre Kragujevac.
• Co-organiser and educator at the School of transfontanellar neurosonography – brain ultrasound – since its establishment in 2004.
• Lecturer in numerous Continuous Education courses at the Section for Neonatology, Intensive Care Unit Activists, etc.
• Member of the assembly and the presidency of the Perinatology Section until 2007.
• Member of the National Coordinating Team for the formation of the Action Plan and Implementation of health care standards adapted to the needs of mother and child in maternity hospitals of Serbia at the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia.
• Member of the Ministry of Health commission for allocating budgetary funds for the treatment of diseases, conditions or injuries that cannot be successfully treated in the Republic of Serbia.
• Member of the Presidency of the Neonatology Section of Serbia within the Association of Paediatricians of Serbia, from its founding in 2016 to the present
• Member of the Presidency of the Intensive Care Group of the Association of Paediatricians of Serbia, from its founding in 2015 to the present.
• In 2016, as Serbia’s representative on behalf of the Ministry of Health, actively participated in the World Health Organization meeting in Geneva, “20 years of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative worldwide”, and contributed to the preparation of a new WHO BFHI guide at the same meeting.

Educational programme:

• Yugoslav School of Ultrasound in Kragujevac 1995 in the field of Paediatrics,
• Seminar for implementing the 'Baby friendly initiative' 1998 – Federal Institute for Protection and Improvement of Health, UNICEF-Belgrade
• School for transfontanelar neurosonography 2004. 
• Innovations in neonatology, Institute for Neonatology, Centre for Continuous Education Belgrade 2005-2015.
• Jan Donald’s School for Ultrasound Diagnostics, 2007 and 2016.
• She attended seminars of the Paediatric School from 2002 to 2017.
• International Postgraduate Seminar INTERNATIONAL POSTGRADUATE ORGANISATION FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER RESEARCH IN NEONATOLOGY, 2011, 2013 and 2015.
• Fetal and neonatal care, 1st World Congress on Maternal Fetal Neonatal Medicine, London 2017.