Dr. Milan Jovanovski
In memoriam
Dr. Milan Jovanovski
retired full professor
(1932-2015)
Prof. Dr. Milan Jovanovski was born in 1932 in Tetovo. He completed his primary and secondary education in Skopje, and in 1960 he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje. After completing his medical internship, he started working at the Institute of Pathology, and in 1962 he was elected as an assistant. He passed the specialist exam in 1967, and four years later he defended his habilitation thesis “Microscopic changes in disseminated intravascular coagulation in fulminant forms of hepatitis”.
In 1973, Prof. Dr. Milan Jovanovski was elected as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje, in 1979 he was elected as an associate professor, and in 1989 he became a full professor at the Faculty of Medicine.
Prof. Dr. Milan Jovanovski acquired his advanced training in the field of pathology through professional stays at the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade, the Institute for Biological Research “Rudjer Bošković” in Zagreb, as well as the State Immunological Institute in Stockholm. In 1982, he was elected director of the Institute of Pathology and, with one interruption, remained in that position until the end of his career. He was elected head of the Department of Pathology in 1983 and, with several interruptions, remained in that position until the end of his career. In 1988, Prof. Dr. Milan Jovanovski became Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and in the period 1992 – 1996, he was Vice-Rector of the University “Sts. Cyril and Methodius”.
He actively contributed to the establishment of the Faculty of Dentistry and Pharmacy at UKIM. In the period 1962-1965 he was elected as a teacher of pathological anatomy at the Faculty of Medicine in Niš, where he was also one of the founders of the Institute of Pathology. During the same period he was elected as an assistant at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry in Belgrade.
He has published more than 70 scientific papers and is the author of the textbook Fundamentals of Pathology, published in several editions, intended for high school medical students.
The period in which Prof. Dr. Milan Jovanovski led the Institute of Pathology as director and head of the department was marked by permanent professional and scientific growth of pathology. During this period, the Institute of Pathology became a significant educational, diagnostic research base of the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Dentistry, as well as other institutions from the former territories of Yugoslavia. He is a mentor of a large number of student topics and the bearer of a large number of scientific research projects in the field of health in Macedonia. A special place in the history of pathology in the country as well as in the former territories of Yugoslavia is occupied by his role as the founder, together with his collaborators, of three significant laboratory diagnostic techniques that are still irreplaceable today, namely the immunofluorescence laboratory, the electron microscopy laboratory and the immunological laboratory.
Prof. Dr. Jovanovski carried out significant social activities and was a member of several associations in the country, the wider Yugoslav territories and the European Association of Pathologists. In the period 1971-1983, Prof. Dr. Jovanovski was president of the Macedonian Medical Society, and then president of the Association of Physicians of Yugoslavia.
He is the recipient of several awards and recognitions from the Universities of Skopje and Niš, as well as from the Macedonian Medical Society. He is the recipient of the Order of Merit for the People with Silver Rays, the Order of the Republic with a Bronze Wreath, the Order of the Republic with a Silver Wreath, the Charter of the Macedonian Medical Society “Dr. Trifun Panovski” and other certificates of appreciation on the occasion of anniversaries from several institutions in Macedonia and the former Yugoslav territories.
Prof. Dr. Milan Jovanovski managed to create European and world-renowned personnel in the field of pathology. Prof. Jovanovski was quiet and reserved, and at the same time a strong and determined person who knew how to unobtrusively give advice and in the same unobtrusive way to praise and rejoice in the successes of the younger ones. He knew how to skillfully oppose all injustices. After his retirement, he continued to take care of our work through rare but significant visits to the Institute.
Prof. Dr. Molan Jovanovski will be remembered for his hard work and dedication, for his modesty and endurance, as well as for the joy of life and enthusiasm that he possessed. We are proud to have had Prof. Dr. Milan Jovanovski as our teacher and as a man who knew how to show us the path of truth and righteousness.
GLORY TO HIM!
Prof. Dr. Gordana Petrushevska
Director of the Institute of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, UKIM, Skopje
President of the Association of Pathologists of Macedonia