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C U R R I C U L U M  V I T A E
PROF. DR. KOJADINOVIC ŽELJKO
CONSULTANT NEUROSURGEON

BIODATA

e-mail: zkoja@yahoo.com
Telephone: +381 62 8534555
skype: kojadinovic2011

MEDICAL EDUCATION

MBBS
University Novi Sad, Faculty of Medicine, Serbia
1987 – 1993

MSc, Neurosciences
University Belgrade, Serbia
1993-1997

Neurosurgery Board of Serbia sertification
Medical University Novi Sad, Serbia and Neurosurgery board of Serbia
1995 –2000

Ph.D
Medical University Novi Sad
2000-2004

Practical experience

31 years working as a neurosurgeon in the biggest hospitals in Serbia and the most developed medical centers in the world.

SURGICAL EXPERIENCE

I have significant experience in the following neurosurgical fields:
Neurotrauma
Neuro-oncology: brain tumors of all locations and skull base tumors.
Stereotaxy with frame
Aneurysm surgery
AVM surgery: urgent and elective
Hydrocephalus surgery: shunt and neuroendoscopy
Surgery of congenital anomalies in adults: Chiari, Arachnoid cysts
MVD of cranial nerves
Spinal tumors: tumors of the spinal canal (intra and extramedullar)
Disk surgery: cervical (anterior and posterior approach with artificial disk replacement), thoracic and lumbar region. Failed back treatment
Nerve surgery: entrapements and trauma
Pain treatment: Trained in courses for the usage of spinal stimulation and spinal pumps.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Professor of Neurosurgery
Medical University Novi Sad, Serbia
Mar 2009

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Medical University Novi Sad, Serbia
Sep 2004 – Mar 2009

Assistant Pofessor of Neurosurgery
Medical University Novi Sad, Serbia
Oct 2000—Sep 2004

Senior Registrar
Medical University Novi Sad, Serbia
October 1997 – October 2000

Training and courses

2001–Continual project of Clinical neurosurgery; meningeomas and endovascular treatment of brain aneurysms and AVM-s. Hanover, Germany (Prof. Dr. M. Samii) 2001.

2003 and 2007– Weill Medical College, Cornell University, Steig Phillip, Continuing Medical Education in Neurosurgery, Salzburg, Austria.

2006– Neuro–Oncology Current Concepts. Universitat Hamburg and The Cleveland Clinic. Hamburg.

2006– Neuroendoscopy Hand–on Workshop. Westphal M. Universitat Hamburg, Germany.

2007– Course of Anterior Cervical Disk Prothesis Prestige 2 Implantation, Dariusz L. Opole, Poland.

2008 – Neurostimulation Symposium, Medtronic sertificate, Belgrade, Serbia.

2008 – Contiunuing Medical Education – Perspective in Central Nervous System Malignacies, Bent M, Young W.K.A. Berlin, Germany.

2010– IntraThecal EFIC Masterclass on Pain. Professor Hans G. Kress. Vienna, Austria

2011– Neuropathic Pain Masterclass. International Coalition on Neuropathic Pain. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2011– Fluorescence – guided resection using Gliolan. Steven D.V. Department of neurosurgery, Genk, Belgium.

2012 – Educational course. Endoscopic Endonasal Approach to Pituitary Tumors. Vulekovic P, Castelnuovo P, Locatelli D. Novi Sad, Serbia.

2018 – Advanced interventional pain treatment course, University of Barcelona

Felloship medical education

Three months of neurosurgical training at Frei Universitat Berlin, Benjamin Franklin Kampus, Neurosurgical department at Prof. Mario Brock. 2000

Three months of neurosurgical training at INI (International Neuroscience Institute) and Medical University, Hanover, Department of neurosurgery at Prof. Madjid Samii. 2001

Research participation

Ph.D. thesis:
„Determination of Surgical Protocol and Prognostic Factors at Malignant Astrocytomas of Brain.“ Medical Faculty, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Master thesis:
„The Recidive Compressive Radicilopathies of The Lumbar Region After Disk Surgery“, Institute for Multidisciplinary Research-Neurosciences, University of Belgrade

Clinical Research and ICH GCP for Investigators in organization of Quintiles

The VITATIOPS Trial Study Group. B vitamins in patient with recent transient ischaemic attack or stroke in VITAmins TO Prevent Stroke (VITATOPS) trial: a randomised, double-blind, parallel, palcebo-controled trial. In: Lancet Neurology, August, 2010; 9: 855-65.

Randomized trial of clazosentan in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage undergoing endovascular coiling.

Main publications

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Kojadinovic+Z

Author and coauthor of 12 clinical books.