DOC. DR NIKOLA VOJVODIĆ

Department for Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders
Current Position: Register in neurology
Adress: Neurology clinic, Dr Subotića 6, 11000 Beograd, Srbija
Apointments: phone +381 11 366 34 09

Vojvodic Nikola, MD, was born in Belgrade, on the 20th January in 1969. He started his medical education at University School of Medicine in Belgrade in 1987 and graduated in 1994 (average grade 9,26). He passed his final exam, entitled “The Parkinson's disease” with grade 10. The very same year he started his postgraduate studies in neurology. After he finished his Internship training with rotator posting in Clinical Center of Serbia he started his four year specialization in neurology at the Institute of neurology in Belgrade. During this period he got training in the laboratory for PCR molecular diagnosis of certain neurological diseases and he went through the course of clinical electroencephalography. He became Master of neurological Sciences in 1999. with the final exam entitled “The Significance of CAG Trinucleotide Repeat Number for Onset, Clinical Course and Differential Diagnosis of Huntington’s Disease”. He finished his specialisation and become neurologist in October of 1999. He has been employed with full working time on Epilepsy department at the Clinic for neurology since June 2000. He is specially involved in the field of uses the video-EEG telemetry in differential diagnosis of epileptic vs. nonepileptic seizures and in presurgical evaluation of patient with pharmacoresistent epilepsies. IIn July 2014, he was appointed as a lecturer of neurology at the University School of medicine in Belgrade. He defended his doctoral dissertation entitled "Analysis of periictal vegetative signs for localization of epileptogenic zone in temporal lobe epilepsy," in December 2012. By the decision of the Scientific Council of the Medical Faculty in Belgrade, his book "Temporal lobe epilepsy" was accepted for the Distinguished Monograph of national importance. 

Fellowship – University Center for epilepsy and epilepsy surgery (Mentor: Prof. Ivan Rektor MD, Ass. Prof.. Robert Kuba MD)
Epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, video-EEG, invasive EEG
Brno, Czech Republic, 2009

Observership - Walton Centre for Neurology & Neurosurgery (Mentor: Prof. Anthony Marson MD, Udo Wiesmann MD)
Epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, video-EEG
Liverpool, UK, 2007

Clinical study collaborator - Walton Centre for Neurology & Neurosurgery, (Mentor: Prof. David Chadwick MD)
Epilepsy, epilepsy pharmacotherapy, clinical pharmacology trials
Obtaining Final Follow-up Data of MESS Study
Liverpool, UK, 2002

Specialization – Medical Faculty in Belgrade (Clinic for neurology CCS)
Neurology
Belgrade, Serbia
1999

Master These – Medical Faculty in Belgrade (Clinic for neurology CCS) (Mentor: Prof. Vladimir S. Kostic MD)
Neurology
Belgrade Serbia
1999

Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade
Belgrade, Serbia
1994

Good Clinical Practice Education. Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP), 2007
Specialist in neurology, 1999

Epilepsy, epilepsy in adults, epilepsy and pregnancy, epilepsy surgery, epilepsy in elderly, EEG, video-EEG monitoring, invasive EEG, genetics of epilepsy, clinical studies 

ILAE Commission on European Affairs stipend for fellowship in European Project on Development of Epilepsy Surgery Program for Central and Eastern Europe (2009)

The best poster award, V Congress of Yugoslav neurologists (2000).

Member of the Serbian Medical Society
Serbian Medical Chamber (No 105926)
European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS)
Association of British Neurologists (ABN-oversea member No1585)

Neurological diseases
Seizures
Epileptic fit
Epilepsy
Epilepsy of adults
Epilepsy and pregnancy
EEG
Video-EEG telemetry
Invasive EEG
Epilepsy Surgery (evaluation)

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