DR IVANA BASTA

Department for neuromuscular disorders and diseases of the spinal cord
Position: Neurologist
Address: Neurological Clinic, Clinical Center of Serbia, Dr Subotica 6,
11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Dr. Ivana Basta was born in 1970. in Belgrade. She graduated in 1994. with an average mark 9.55 (of 10). From 1996. she is employed at the Neurological Clinic at the Department for neuromuscular and spinal cord diseases. She passed the specialist exam in neurology in 2000. with excellent mark. She started the postgraduate studies in the field of neurology in 1996. and finished master thesis „The significance of anti-glycolipid antibodies in neuromuscular diseases„ in 2002. She finished doctoral thesis „Quality of life study in patients with myasthenia gravis in defined population“ in 2010. under the supervison of Professor Dr. Dragana Lavrnić and Professor Dr. Tatjana Pekmezović.
She was engaged as a researcher on the scientific projects of the Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia in the period from 1994. to 2010. She is a researcher associate in neurology since January 2011. She is engaged as a researcher on the scientific project of the Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia under the guidance of Professor Dr. Tatjana Pekmezovic.

European Neurological Society Fellowship (Mentor: Prof Dr. Eduardo Nobile-Orazio)
Clinical and experimental neuroimmunology, anti-glycolipid antibodies in aquired inflammatory neuropathies, anti-neuronal antibodies in paraneoplastic syndromes
Service of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurological Sciences,
Osspedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan University, Milan, Italy
2002.

Doctoral dissertation - School of Medicine, University of Belgrade (Mentor;     Professor Dr. Dragana Lavrnić and Professor Dr. Tatjana Pekmezović) „Quality     of life study in patients with myasthenia gravis in defined population„
Neurology
Belgrade, Serbia
2010.

Master thesis - School of Medicine, University of Belgrade (Mentor; Professor         Dr. Slobodan Apostolski) „The significance of anti-glycolipid antibodies in     neuromuscular diseases„
Neurology
Belgrade, Serbia
2002.

Specialization - Shool of Medicine, University of Belgrade (Neurological Clinic,     Clinical Center of Serbia)
Neurology
Belgrade, Serbia
2000.

School of Medicine, University of Belgrade
Belgrade, Serbia
1994.

Specialization in neurology

Neuromuscular disorders, imune mediated diseases of peripheral nervous system, clinical neuroimmunology, myasthenia gravis and aquired myasthenic syndromes, acquired and hereditary neuropathies, paraneoplastic syndromes, neuroepidemiology, motor neuron diseases, myopathies, myotonic dystrophy

Scholar of the Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, award for the best poster on the Fifth Congress of Yugoslav Neurologists 

Serbian Medical Society
European Federation of Neurological Societies
World Neurological Society

disorders of neuromuscular junction
immune mediated diseases of peripheral nervous system
clinical neuroimmunology
myasthenia gravis
aquired myasthenic syndromes
acquired and hereditary neuropathies
paraneoplastic syndromes
motor neuron diseases
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
myopathies
myotonic dystrophy

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