Obren Joksimović | |
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Обрен Јоксимовић | |
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Minister of Health | |
In office 25 January 2001 – 22 October 2001 | |
Prime Minister | Zoran Đinđić |
Preceded by | Nada Kostić |
Succeeded by | Uroš Jovanović (acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | Očevlje, Breza, PR Bosnia-Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia | 15 May 1952
Died | 13 March 2021 Belgrade, Serbia | (aged 68)
Nationality | Serbian |
Political party |
SRS (2008-2021) DZS (2006-2008) DSS (1995-2006) SPO (1990-1995) |
Alma mater | University of Belgrade |
Occupation | Politician |
Obren Joksimović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Обрен Јоксимовић; 15 May 1952 – 13 March 2021) was a Serbian surgeon and politician who served as Minister of Health in the Government of Serbia from 25 January 2001 to 22 October 2001. [1]
Joksimović was born on 15 May 1952 to a Bosnian Serb family in Očevlje, Breza at that time part of PR Bosnia and Herzegovina and FPR Yugoslavia. [2]
He graduated in 1979 at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, and specialized in general surgery in 1988. [3]
During the Bosnian War, he participated as a volunteer on numerous battlefields as a war surgeon of the Army of Republika Srpska and at the same time he was a member of the Federal Assembly of FR Yugoslavia as a member of the Serbian Renewal Movement (since 1992). [2] In 1995, angry and dissatisfied, Joksimović resigned from the parliament and joined the Democratic Party of Serbia together with several other party colleagues. [3]
He was appointed the Minister of Health in the cabinet of Zoran Đinđić and the Government of Serbia on 25 January 2001 and served until 22 October 2001. [2]
In September 2004, he defended his doctoral dissertation at Megatrend University, Faculty of Management in Zaječar (whose teacher he became immediately afterwards). [2]
He was the leader of Democratic Community of Serbia, which emerged from the Democratic Party of Serbia [4] and merged into Serbian Radical Party. [5]
Joksimović died from COVID-19 on 13 March 2021, in Belgrade at the age of 68. [6] [7]
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