Areas of Research
Establishing and developing the techniques of screening, diagnostics, course and rehabilitation in the treatment of malignant neoplasms of the breast, endocrine glands and abdominal tumors. The application of combined treatments (conservative surgery with radiation therapy and reconstructive procedures with cancer of the breast, preoperative radiation and radical surgery of advanced rectal carcinoma etc. Presented and published 237 scientific papers in total, editor in two monographs, author of one chapter in foreign and six chapters in domestic monographs, and three in textbooks. Visiting (IREX) Research Professor in Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Recipient of the 1998 “Prof. Dr. Voja Stojanović” Plaque for his scientific and research work from the Serbian Association of University Professors and Scientists, Belgrade, as well as the 1998 October Award of the City of Novi Sad.
Selected Publications
Faculty Lectures
Surgery, with Emergency War Surgery, and Surgical Oncology for the students of medicine and dentistry in Serbian and English Languages within the Faculty of Medicine (Studies in English), Medical Ethics for students of the English Medical and Dentistry School at the Faculty of Medicine, Novi Sad.
Other Relevant Information
Member of the editorial boards of: European Journal of Surgical Oncology- Sounders ltd. London, (1986-97), member of the Reviewer’s Board EJSO (1998-2001), Journal of BUON, Athens, (since 1998), Archives of Oncology, Sremska Kamenica (since 1993), Archive for Gastroenterohepatology SLD Belgrade (since 1997), President and Editor in Chief of the publishing department of the Medical Society of Vojvodina, Serbian Medical Society.
Membership
European Society of Surgical Oncology- Founding Member (Brussels), British Association Of Surgical Oncology (London), The Royal Society of Medicine- Oncology (London), International Society of University Colon and Rectal Surgeons (Chicago), Balkan Union of Oncology (Athens), SLD-DLV, the Society of Surgical Oncology, Serbia and Montenegro, the Association of Coloproctologists, Serbia and Montenegro.