Biografija - Pejakov Ljubica+

Prof dr Ljubica Pejakov was born 21.04.1956 in Novi Sad, (Vojvodina, Serbia) where completed high school and Faculty of Medicine at University of Novi Sad. At the same University she earned Master degree in 1987. Since 1986 she has been employed as house physician (general/anaesthesia) at Anaesthesia department, Clinic for paediatric surgery, Novi Sad. She has enrolled specialty training of anaesthesia and reanimation at University Clinical Centre of Vojvodina in 1988, and has been trained at University Clinical Centre Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Belgrade, as well. Prof Pejakov completed her residency program training in 1991. She continued working as a specialist of anaesthesia and reanimation, University Clinic for pediatric surgery, Novi Sad until 2000. During that time she spent six months at Ana Meyer hospital, Florence (Prof dr Paolo Busoni) in 1994 for education in regional anaesthesia for children and was visiting doctor at the University Hospital for sick children in Toronto, 1994 (Prof J. Lerman). Dr Ljubica Pejakov was elected teaching assistant in 1992 at Faculty of Medicine (Surgery/Anaesthesia), University of Novi Sad. She received her Ph.D. in medical sciences focused on acute pain markers in 1997 and was elected assistant professor at the same University in 1999. Since 2000. dr Pejakov has been working at Clinical Centre of Montenegro where she was appointed Head of the Clinic of anesthesia, reanimation and pain medicine until 2013. She was elected assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine (Surgery/Anaesthesia), University of Montenegro, Podgorica in 2001. Since 2004 she has been responsible for the First aid in the study program medicine and dentistry and since 2018 for the Bases of scientific research. Dr Pejakov enrolled sub-specialty training of clinical pharmacology in 2004 and completed it in 2007 (under supervision of Prof A. Sabo) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad. In 2006 she was elected associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Podgorica, and full professor at the same institution in 2011.

Since 2013, Dr Ljubica Pejakov has been appointed co-ordinator for medical specialties training and education at the Faculty of Medicine in Podgorica, and since 2000 mentor-coordinator for residency training program for anesthesia and intensive care (Belgrade/Podgorica).

Dr Pejakov has been participant in many international projects (CEEPUS III (CIII-RO-0313-08-1516), CEEPUS (Central European University Network) II (CII-RO-0313), ASPPOC project (The Antibiotic Surveillance Project on Perioperative Chemoprophylaxis) No062-000000-3537, EPIC II (The Extended Prevalence of Infection in the ICU Study), 2007 (Investigator No 902); Global PPS (The Global Point Prevalence Survey on Antibiotic Consumptin and Resistance, 2015, www.global-pps.com, Tempus project "Reform of Curriculum Content to Undergraduate Medical Education at University of Montenegro" (ID:CD- JEP-40106-2005(ME)-CARDS (No 40106-2005), 2006-9, ERASMUS + project (KA2 –Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices –Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education 2017/18. Project HEPMP), Erasmus+, „Strengthening Capacities for Higher Education of Pain Medicine in Western Balkan countries (Higher Education Pain Medicine (No: 585927-EPP-1-2017-1-RS-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP (2017 – 3109 / 001 – 001),2017/18.

Prof Pejakov gained Project ’Higher Education and Research for Innovation and Competetiveness“ (HERIC) - National Excellence Scholarship Program 2016 (No: 01-2871) that enabled her a 1-year postdoctoral research at the University College, London, UK. There she has participated on the project “Organ dysfunction following acute illness” (Project licence holder Prof Mervyn Singer, Bloomsbury Institute of Intensive Care Medicine, UCL) in which she was focused on sepsis animal research. In London, she completed the course Biological Services Training under Royal Society of Biology at UCL (No UCL/17/001) and achieved personal licence to carry out regulated procedures (A,B,C) on living animals (Licence No 114FC91F0).

Prof Ljubica Pejakov is active member of European Society of Anesthesiologists (Membership No145106), European Society of intensive care medicine (ESICM), Montenegrin Physicians` Society (Assembly President) and Chamber of Physicians. She has been member of editorial board of Medicinski zapisi since 2015, Anestezija i intenzivna terapija journal (since 2002 until 2006) and International Advisory Board, Journal of Anesthesia (JARSS) since 2018.

Language skills: fluent in English, Italian, moderate in German

Selected publications

1. Mijovic G, Pejakov Lj & Vujosevic D. Antibiotic susceptibility of Acinetobacter species in intensive care unit in Montenegro. Journal of Chemotherapy 2016; 28:4, 273-276, DOI: 10.1179/1973947815Y.0000000037 SCI, CC, Scopus
2. Filipovic A, Vuckovic Lj, Pejakov Lj. Paraganglioma of the thyroid gland: A case report. Vojnosanit Pregl 2014; 71(9): 875–878 SCIE
3. Pejakov Lj, Čejović V, Filipović A, Nenezić T. Parathyroid carcinoma discovered in young trauma victim during intensive care management. Signa vitae 2011; Vol 6(1):21-23. ISSN 1334-5605 SCIE, Scopus
4. Pejakov Lj. Intra-abdominal pressure monitoring in the intensive care unit. Liječnički Vjesnik, 2010; 132: (Suppl 2):45-48. UDK 61(061.231)=862=20; ISSN 1330-4917 Scopus, WOS
5. Pejakov Lj, Ratković M. Extracorporal methods of therapy in acute renal failure and haemodynamic tolerability in critically ill patients. Liječnički Vjesnik, 2009; 131:1-48(Suppl 1):19-24. UDK 61(061.231)=862=20; ISSN 1330-4917 Scopus, WOS