Spec. physical medicine and rehabilitation
Biography
Dr Aleksandra Jurišić-Škevin was born on 04.09.1968 in Gornji Milanovac. She completed primary and secondary school in Kragujevac as a recipient of the Vuk Karadžić diploma. She enrolled at the Medical Faculty of the University of Kragujevac in 1987, graduated in 1993 with an average grade of 8.94, and obtained the academic title of Doctor of Medicine.
She completed a master’s degree in Neurosciences at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Kragujevac in 2002 and obtained the academic title Magistar medicinskih nauka. Title of the master’s thesis: “Clinical model of early rehabilitation of patients with hemiplegia after cerebrovascular insult”.
She earned a doctorate at the Medical Faculty of the University of Kragujevac in 2008 and obtained the academic title of Doctor of Medical Sciences. Title of doctoral dissertation: „Significance of the morphological characteristics of lumbar vertebrae in the aetiology of disc herniation“.
She enrolled in specialist studies in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade in 1994. She passed the specialist examination in December 1997 with an excellent grade, earning the professional title of specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Career progression:
* 1994–1996: University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Medicine, assistant trainee in Medical Biochemistry.
* 1994–1997: specialist trainee at the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, KBC Kragujevac
* 1998: specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, KBC Kragujevac
* 2004–2007: Head of the Child Rehabilitation Section, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, KC Kragujevac
* 2008: Head of the Admission, Diagnostic and Polyclinic Department of the Centre for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, KC Kragujevac
* 2007–2008: practical teaching instructor at the Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kragujevac
* 2008: assistant at the Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kragujevac
* 2011: Head of the Department for Rehabilitation of Neurological Patients, Centre for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, KC Kragujevac
* 04.10.2013: elected to the teaching title of docent
* Elected to the title of vanredni profesor at the University of Kragujevac in 2018.