Ernest Grin

Physician and professor. He was one of the world's most prominent experts on the issue of endemic treponematosis, so his method of eradicating endemic syphilis was adopted by the World Health Organization. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in 1926 in Vienna. He then worked in Zagreb , and in 1934, after specializing in the USA , he came to Sarajevo, in which he spent most of his life as a scientist and clinical worker, organizer and pedagogue. He organized the fight against endemic syphilis, which led to the eradication of the disease in BiH. He was professor emeritus of the Medical Faculty in Sarajevo and director of the Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases. He published over a hundred scientific papers and helped tackle health problems in over a dozen countries globally.