Nedo Zec

Medical doctor (neuropsychiatry), founder and professor at the Medical Faculty in Sarajevo. Born in Mostar, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna and passed the specialist exam in 1934 at the Clinic for Mental Illness in Belgrade. He was the first post-war Minister of Health in the People's Republic of BiH . He is the founder and the first head of the Clinic for Nervous and Mental Diseases within the Medical Department of the University of Sarajevo, which once bore his name. He is the founder of psychiatric institutions in Jagomir (1948) and Sokolac - Sokolac (1958), as well as other health institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is the author of over 80 scientific and professional papers and was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.