Milivoje Kostić

Medical doctor, surgeon and professor who is considered one of the most influential physicians in Bosnia & Herzegovina and the former Yugoslavia. Born and raised in Sarajevo, he graduated in 1906 at the University of Vienna. From 1913 to 1921 he was the leading surgeon in Sarajevo as well as the director of the Sarajevo Hospital. He performed the first ever heart surgery in Yugoslavia in 1926. In 1938 he established the Department of Neurosurgery (the first in Yugoslavia), only three years after the first neurosurgical department was established in Germany. He influenced the Federal Government in Belgrade with his authority in 1946 to to open the Faculty of Medicine in Sarajevo.