Faculty of Medicine
Biography - Andrić Bogdanka+
BIOGRAPHY
Prof.dr.Bogdanka Basekic Andric from the Faculty of Medicine - University of Montenegro, specialist for Infectious diseases, expert in the field of transmissible zoonosis.
I was born on April 27, 1949 in Pancevo. Origin and Citizenship of Montenegro. I finished elementary, secondary education and Medical School in Skopje. Graduated 19.04.1976. year with an average grade of 8.70. I completed specialized studies of infectious diseases in 1982 at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Febrile Conditions, Faculty of Medicine - University of Skopje with great success. Postgraduate - master studies, ended in 1999, at the Faculty of Medicine - University of Novi Sad.
Magisterial thesis: "Diagnostic - prognostic significance of serum aminotransferase activity in the early stage of Lyme disease", I defended in 1999. at the Faculty of Medicine - University of Novi Sad and gained an academic title of Master of Science in Medical Sciences.
Doctoral Dissertation »I defended the clinical characteristics and diagnosis of associated transmissible (ticks) zoonosis” in June 2002 at the Faculty of Medicine - University of Novi Sad, and obtained the academic title of Doctor of Medical Science
On July 16, 2004, the Commission of the Ministry of Health of Montenegro received the title Primarius.
DATA ON WORKING PLACES AND ELECTIONS TO LITERACY
After completion of basic medicine studies, as a scholarship holder of the Republic Fund for Science and Development of the Republic of Macedonia, I have established a permanent employment relationship at the University Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Fever at the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje, where i worked as of October 1.10.1976, until 01.09-1992. year. as a doctor trainee, a clinical doctor, a doctor on specialization and a specialist for infectious diseases. In the period from 1982 to 1983, i was the director of specialistic and subspecialistic ambulance services, and from 1984 to 1992, worked at the Department of febrile illneses and rash fever.
From 1992 to 1995 i worked in the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Republic of Montenegro. In the affairs of the Advisor to the Minister of Health, she also performed tasks related to organizational, preventive, international health and humanitarian programs. As an expert of the Commission of the Federal Ministry of Health of FRYugoslavia, in the Programs of population protection against infectious diseases that endanger the whole country. As a member of the Commission for Certification of Eradication of Child Paralysis in the FR Yugoslavia, I am the winner of the Thanksgiving of the European Office WHO, 2002. In addition to the aforementioned activities, I directly participated in infectious departments in Podgorica, Bar, Kotor and through coordination of the work of infectious services in Montenegro. Since 5.12.1995, I continued my professional, scientific and pedagogical work at the Clinical Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Podgorica, and from January 23, 2001, year. in this institution, performed the duties of the head of the transmissible zoonosis department.
I completed several educational training courses in the field of transmissible zoonoses at the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb (1985/89); Ljubljana (1990); In Belgrade (1992/1993), Novi Sad (1998/2000/2001/2002), Claude Bernard Institute in Paris (1989), at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases of the Faculty of Medicine "Sechenov" in Moscow (1994), Institute of National Health in Rome (1995), Institute of Tropical Diseases in Marseille (2004), Pasteur Institute in Paris (2006).
PEDAGOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WORK
Pedagogical work began at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases, selection and re-election for the assistant of the Department of Infectious Diseases from Medical Faculty - University of Skopje. Since 2004, So far I continued my pedagogical work at the Medical Faculty in Podgorica. Decision No. 01-1655 of the University of Montenegro dated 16.07.2004. year, I was selected as an academic professor at the University of Montenegro for the basic studies for infectious diseases and stomathological studies at the Medical Faculty Universitu of Montenegro. The report published in the Bulletin of the University of Montenegro No. 179, 2004. ISSN 1800-5101. and in the a high medical stydies in Berane.
Re-election to the title of Associate Professor 2009 and 2014 In 2004, I was elected Head of the Infectious Disease Course at the Medical Faculty in Podgorica and the High Medical School in Berane in the subject Microbiology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases. I am in that position after retirement.
Since the completion of specialist studies in infectious diseases, I have participated and managed a number of scientific research projects at Medical faculties in Skopje, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Podgorica, among which are of special importance scientific research projects:
1."Characteristics of Lyme disease in Yugoslavia" in 1990, at the MMA in Belgrade. The results of the work were published by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1993.
Results of Clinical Laboratory and Serological tests performed on a group of patients after a tick bite. My work on the project is shown in the above-mentioned journal "Glas" of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts under the title: "GLAS" CCCLXX Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Department of Medical Sciences, knj.43, Belgrade 1993, p. 267 - 269.
- Scientific Research Project "Characteristics of Lyme disease in Macedonia" was done in the period from 1982 to 1992, and the results of the work were published by the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1994. Under the title: Distribution and practical value of serum transaminases in the study of clinical aspects of Lyme borreliosis., shown of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje, 1994, p. 146 - 150.
3.National-Research Project of the Medical Faculty-University of Montenegro and the Ministry of Education and Science in Podgorica, 1996. «Actuality and basic characteristics of transmissible zoonoses in Montenegro», The results of clinical and etiologically diagnosed cases of Lyme borreliosis (diagnosed since 1990, Q fever in 1995, rickettsial fever from 1996) are presented.
The first serological diagnosis of Lyme disease in Montenegro was introduced in 1996. from which time our work begins relying on our independent diagnostic possibilities.
On the other hand, cooperation with laboratory for veterinary diagnostics in Podgorica, enabled the etiological verification of the first cases of erlichiosis in Montenegro in the period 2008-2013.
The first cases of babesiosis in Montenegro in the period 2011-2015 in cooperation with the Department for Infectious Diseases in Beraane, Hematology Clinic -Podgorica, Institute for Health of Montenegro - Department of Microbiology.
In the period from 2007 to 2014, 15 cases of bartonellosis, including 1 case of co-infection B. hensellae - HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), were confirmed etiologically.
Lashmaniasis (kala-azar) in Montenegro, was monitored on the basis of data from the history of medicine in Montenegro, from the first registrations of this transmissible zoonosis 1924/25. in Baošići. During 1930/32, new cases were registered in the southern coastal region towards Bojana, which turned into a known endemic disease in Montenegro, and the phlebotominae was detected as primary vectors. Until 1995, precise records of the number of patients with manifest disease do not exist, but despite the fact there are data of individual enthusias, that for a long period until 1995, a total of 45 cases with confirmed diagnosis. In the period from 1992 to 2013, 83 cases of visceral leishmaniasis (Kala-azara) were diagnosed in Montenegro, with 4 deaths. During 2015/16 y. the first two cases of co-infection of leishmaniasis and HIV were detected.
On the international level, two scientific projects for 2009 and 2015 have been successfully completed.
4.The International Project: Vectors Borne Transmissible Diseases in Western Europe. The results were published as an edition in the context of the Western Europe Project (SEE-ERA-NET), the regional WHO Office for Europe in the monographic publication:
Definition of the Reshearche Need of Identification, Prediction and Surveilance of Emerging and Reemerging Zoonoses in the West Balkan Area. In eds .: Jana Machacova, Katarina Rosmann: Scientific Results of the SEE-ERA.NET Pilot Joint Call.
Number ERA-CT-2004 - 515805). ID 10506. ISBN 978-3-200-01567-8, June 2009, first edition of 1500 copies Publicher: Center for Social Innovation (ZSI), Wiena, Austria, WHO publication, COBISS, CG-ID 184227340).
Chapter: Svetomir Samardzic, Bogdanka Andric
- In cooperation with the infectious department and the Department of Immunology of the University Hospital, Varna Medical School, Bulgaria, I successfully completed the research of parasitic vectors of transmissible diseases in Montenegro, the results of 2015 are published in the Monographic Publication
Human Vector Borne Transmisible Parasitic Diseases in Montenegro in eds: Immunopathology and Immunomodulation by Krasimir Metodiev 2015, (13), 287 - 331, Publiched by INTECH I Regional Office for Europe Since 07.12.2011. year. I am a member of the National Interdisciplinary Commission for the Control of Antibiotic Resistance (NIKRA), formed under the auspices of the Ministry of Health of Montenegro and the World Health Organization (WHO), the Regional Office for Europe. As part of the "NIKRE" activity, I am involved in projects of international importance, devoted to the problem of antimicrobial resistance, as one of the growing global problems of human and veterinary medicine in the World.
6.I have actively participated in the Projects for the Study and Contemporary Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B and C, which have been the subject of analysis of numerous world and European associations, the holding of numerous educational courses and seminars quoted in numerous world-based scientific bases.
The problem of HIV / AIDS infection is continuously devoted to full attention, starting from educational courses at all levels of health care in Montenegro, to popular educational lectures directed towards the broad population.
- I published a total of 10 books out of which 2 were published abroad:
-Svetomir Samardzic, Bogdanka Andric
Capter Definition of Reshearche Need of the identification, Prediction and Surveilance of Emerging and Reemerging Zoonoses in the West Balkan Area. In eds.: Jana Machacova, Katarina Rosmann : Scientific Results of the SEE-ERA.NET Pilot Joint Call.
Number ERA-CT-2004 – 515805). ID 10506. ISBN 978-3-200-01567-8, June 2009, 1500 copies. Publicher : Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI), Wiena, Austria, WHO publication, COBISS,CG-ID 184227340)
Bogdanka Andric, Aleksandar Andric, Mileta Golubovic
Capter:Human Vector-Borne Transsmisible Parasitic Diseases in Montenegro, eds. By Krasimir Metodiev:”Immunopathology and Immunomodulation”, 2015 (13), 287 – 301, INTEX, ISBN 978-953-51-2210-4.
Since the last re-appointment to the title of associate professor to date, I have publisher 15 manuscripts in the journals that are on the SCI list.