• Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tuzla in 1996.
• Passed the specialist exam in Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine Clinic, UKC Tuzla
• Subspecialist exam in the field of cardiology passed in 2011, Clinic for Cardiovascular Diseases, UKC Tuzla.

Academic education and career choices:

• Defended his master’s thesis on the topic; “Non-antibiotic treatment of prostatitis type inflammatory pelvic pain syndrome”, and promoted to Master of
• Medical Sciences – University of Tuzla, Faculty of Medicine.
• Elected to the associate position of senior assistant for the subject Internal Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Tuzla.
• Defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: “Oxidized low-density lipoprotein as a predictor of coronary disease”.
• Promoted to doctor of medical sciences – University of Tuzla, Faculty of Medicine.
• Elected to the position of assistant professor for the subject Internal Medicine at the University of Bihać, College of Health
• Elected to the position of assistant professor for the subject Internal Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tuzla.
• “Good clinical practice” course, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sarajevo.

Education in the field of interventional cardiology and endovascular angiology:

• Education in the field of Invasive Cardiology, Clinic for Cardiovascular Diseases, University Clinical Center-Tuzla.
• Educational course; Treating a Patient with Acute Myocardial Infarction, Medtronic Academia, Switzerland-Toloshenaz (The European Board for
• Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC) granted) (mentor Eric Eeckhout).
• Clinical Center Ljubljana, Education in the field of interventional cardiology-Treatment of complicated coronary lesions (mentor Prim Dr. Darko Zorman).
• Educational course; Treating a Diabetic Patient with Multi-vessel Disease education, Medtronic Academia, Switzerland-Toloshenaz (The European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC) granted).
• Bezmialem Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. Training in the field of interventional cardiology: Treatment of complicated coronary lesions and peripheral vascular disease (mentor Omer Goktekin).
• Treatment of bifurcated lesions – Treating a patient with a Bifurcated Lesion, Medtronic Academia, Switzerland-Toloshenaz (The European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC) granted, (mentors Prof Remo ALBIERO and Prof Piotr MUSIALEK).
• Chest hospital Kuwait city-Kuwait – Training in the field of invasive cardiology with a special focus on the Transradial approach (mentors Mohammad Mutairi and Ibrahim Rashdan).
• EVAR-Endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm, Medtronic Academia Zagreb, Croatia (mentors Prof. Igor KONČAR and Dr. Artem VITKOVSKIY).
• Advanced interventional training: Endovascular procedures on lower limb arteries – Lower limb intervention – Herzzentrum Freiburg, Bad Krozingen, Germany (mentor Prof Thomas Zeller).
• Endovascular treatment of peripheral arteries – Live Hands-on Vascular Workshop at ORSI Institute, Ghent, Belgium, (mentors Prof Koen Deloose and Prof Lieven Meane).

Education in the field of implantation of heart electrostimulation devices:

• Educational course; Basic Pacing Concepts, Medtronic academia,
• Basic school of pace-maker, Jude Medical Institute,
• Educational course; Patient Management Skills Builder-IPG Essentials, Medtronic Academia, Switzerland-Toloshenaz (mentor Prof Ricardo Ruiz GRANELL),
• Educational course; Overcoming Challenges in Pacemaker Follow-up course, Medtronic Academia, Switzerland-Toloshenaz (The European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC) has granted).
• Overcoming Challenges in Pacemaker Follow-up course, Medtronic Academia, Switzerland-Toloshenaz (The European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC) has granted),
• Simulation training of pacemaker/ICD device implantation – The Simulated Implant, Medtronic Academia, Switzerland-Toloshenaz (mentor Dr Micheal Anelli-MONTI),
• Pacemaker training, ICD implants – Live implants with experts, Master in Device Implantation, NUSCH Bratislava Hospital, Slovakia – “IPG and ICD implants under the supervision of the implant trainer” (mentor Dr. Peter Margitfalvi).

Education in the field of ultrasound diagnostics:

• Educational program of abdominal ultrasound diagnostics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tuzla.
• Educational Program in the field of Doppler echocardiography, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tuzla.