Isidor Papo

Cardiac surgeon, lieutenant general of the medical service and chief surgeon of the JNA and academician of SANU. He was born in in Ljubuški and graduated from high school in Mostar. He studied medicine in Zagreb and distinguished himself as a surgeon during WW2. He trained with the best surgeons in Russia and the USA. He performed over 4000 open heart surgeries and was the first to install an artificial valve in Yugoslavia. He became a professor and published 217 papers, 13 of them in foreign journals. He was the editor of the textbook War Surgery. He was the head of the MMA Surgical Clinic for over 30 years. Widely recoginsed as one of the greatest surgeons in the history of Yugoslavia.