Prim.dr.sci. Mila Jakovljević,
cardiologist internist
She was born in Zagreb. In 1972, she graduated from the School of Medicine in Zagreb.
In 1980 she completed her specialisation in internal medicine at the Department for Heart and Blood Vessel Diseases, Zagreb University Hospital Centre.
She subsequently completed a programme in cardiology and clinical pharmacology in 1980.
In 1979, she defended her master’s thesis, and in 1982 gained a doctorate in medical sciences at the University of Zagreb covering topics from the field of cardiology. In 1992, she acquired the title of primarius.
She continued cardiology training in Stockholm, Uppsala and Pisa. She got education in 4D TTE and 4D TEE in Berlin and Padova. She actively attends to many cardiology congresses and conferences (Tokyo, Hong Kong, Berlin, London, Munich, Rome etc.).
She was the first person in Croatia to introduce and conduct the stress echocardiography method (1992) and has published 56 scientific and academic papers, primarily in the field of cardiology.
By 2001, she had been working as an internist cardiologist specialist and chief of the Polyclinic Section at the Department for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases and Rehabilitation in Zagreb.
In 2002, she founded the Saint Nicholas Polyclinic for Cardiovascular Diseases and Prevention on Korčula.
She is a member of the Croatian Association of Physicians, the Croatian Cardiologic Association, European Cardiologic Association, European Association of Cardiac Decompensation (HFA), European Association for Echocardiography (EAE), and the New York Academy of Sciences.
She holds the Homeland Appreciation Memorial.
Marija (Maja) Pleško Avšar,
a nurse
Born in Zagreb.
1988 -graduated from the Secondary School of Healthcare in Varaždin.
1988 – 1990- employed at the Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation at the “Dr. Mladen Stojanović”Hospital (nowKBC Sestre milosrdnice), whereshe passed the professional examination in1989
1990 – 1991 – employed at the Burns Department, Intensive Care Unit, Admission Out-patient Clinic and the Sports Medicine Department of the Traumatology Hospital in Zagreb
1991 – 1992 – employedat theRetirement Home Pensione sole in Torricelli, Switzerland.
1993 – 2021 – employed atthe Neurosurgery and Intensive Care Department, Central Intensive Care Unit for Abdominal Surgery at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia, and as a dispatcher at the Department for Transport of Specimens and the Reception of Patients.
April 2021 – ongoing- employed at thePolyclinic for Cardiovascular Diseases and Prevention Sveti Nikola