Roza Papo

Bosnian Jewish doctor and general of the Yugoslav People's Army. She was the first woman to rise to the rank of general on the entire Balkan Peninsula. She studied at the School of Medicine in Zagreb and worked as physician in Sarajevo before WW2. Post war, she went on to specialise in infectology. She became the first head of the Military Medical Academy and formulated the first criteria for the selection of military physicians. Having published over 50 papers, she became a professor at the academy in 1965. She was also one of the first infectologists in Yugoslavia. She is credited with introducing new diagnostic methods, primarily liver biopsies, as well as the introduction of precise diagnosis of viral hepatitis and hyperbilirubinemia, as well as tuberculosis and purulent meningitis.