Our team

Prof. dr Mirko Jankov

Clinical director, MD PhD

Prof. Dr. Mirko Jankov, MD, PhD, Clinical Director, is President of the Serbian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (SSCRS), a Board Member of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS), and a member of the ESCRS Education Committee.

He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade (Serbia), completed his specialization in ophthalmology in São Paulo (Brazil), fellowship training in refractive surgery in Zurich (Switzerland), and further subspecialty training in cataract and anterior segment surgery in São Paulo (Brazil).

He worked as a research and clinical fellow with Prof. Dr. Theo Seiler in Zurich (Switzerland) and Prof. Ioannis Pallikaris in Heraklion (Greece). Since then, he has been a member of the clinical research team at IROC – Institute for Refractive and Ophthalmic Surgery in Zurich. He has also served as an organizer and lecturer at subspecialty courses in refractive surgery in Zurich and as an authorized international instructor for Alcon/WaveLight.

Prof. Dr. Jankov earned his PhD in bioengineering from the Federal University of São Paulo (Brazil). For many years, he headed the refractive surgery team at the IOC Ophthalmological Institute in Curitiba (Brazil) and at Miloš Clinic in Belgrade (Serbia).

He is the author of more than one hundred scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings. He has also served as a reviewer for numerous professional journals, including Archives of Ophthalmology, Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia, British Journal of Ophthalmology, Current Eye Research, Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Journal of Refractive Surgery, Middle East and African Journal of Ophthalmology, and Ophthalmology.

He is a member of prestigious American, European, Brazilian, and Serbian ophthalmological and subspecialty societies and is regularly invited to lecture at major international ophthalmology congresses. He has received numerous professional awards and recognitions, including the Global Ambassador of Ophthalmology Award in 2007.

Prof. Fernanda Florentino Fernandez Jankov

Executive director, RAD PhD

Prof. Fernanda Florentino Fernandez Jankov, executive director, RAD Ph.D. is a Law Graduate from both the University of San Paolo, Brazil, and the University of Nottingham Law School, United Kingdom. She achieved her Master’s Degree in Latin American Integration from the USP and obtained a Doctorate in Law from the Federal University in Parana, Brazil.

Prof. Fernandez is a senior researcher at the Institute of Comparative Law within the Ministry of Sciences in Belgrade, Serbia, in addition to being a professor at the University of Belgrade Law School, lecturing in Judicial Protection in the EU. She is a member of such prestigious organizations as the College of Arbitrators FDI Competition in Frankfurt and has achieved recognition as a legal practitioner from the Bar of England and Wales. Prof. Fernandez has worked as a visiting fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London. Her recently-published book, “The Principle of Universal Jurisdiction in International Criminal Law: International Criminal Court’s Mechanism of Implementation”, is based on her Doctoral thesis, researched at the University of Cambridge during her time spent as a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law.

Prof. dr Ljubiša Nikolić

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Dr. Ljubiša Nikolić, was born in Belgrade, where he finished the elementary school, graduated from the Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium and then from the Faculty of Medicine. After the degree he passed the ECFMG exam (nostrification for S.A.D.), completed a specialization in ophthalmology, received his master’s degree and defended his doctoral thesis. He learned, taught and conducted his profession at the Clinic for eye deseases „Prof. dr Ivan Stanković“ from 1975. to 2013., specialized in ophthalmology, was head of the corneal transplant department, head of the department for surgical cataracts and Chief Clinics. He started his university career in 1980 as an assistant, but soon became and was a full professor until 2016.

He was aquiring his experience in Boston, as Cornea Research Fellow at Harvard University, in Moscow at the Institute of Eye Microsurgery (phacoemulsification) and in Indianapolis, at the Price Vision Group (endothelial keratoplasty). Prof. dr Nikolić considers his contribution to medicine is the introduction of selective procedures for corneal transplantation (DSEK and DALK) in Serbia and the introduction of the study of angiogenesis of the eye in our country. His mentors were: professors Slobodan Dergenc, Zlatimir Kecmanović and Richard Thoft, but he learned as well from professors Klaes Dolman and Jude Folkman. He was mentor to Prof. dr Mirjana Dujić, to Prof. dr Zora Ignjatović, to dr Katarina Misailović and to Assoc. Prof. dr Vesna Jovanović.

Scholarship: Fulbright, for postdoctoral studies 1983-1984.
Master’s thesis (mentor: prof.dr S. Dergenc): Intraoperative and early postoperative complications of perforative keratoplasty. Belgrade 1978.
Doctoral dissertation (mentor: Prof. Dr. Z. Kecmanović): Possibilities of the influence of photocoagulation on the course of diabetic maculopathy. Belgrade 1981.

Monographs:

• Nikolić Lj. Lasers in the treatment of eye diseases. Scientific book, Belgrade 1991.
• Nikolić Lj. Diabetic retinopathy. Textbook Institute, Belgrade, 1999.
• Nikolić Lj (Editor). Cataract Surgery, Institute for Textbooks, Belgrade 2009.

Textbook: Blagojevic M., Dergenc S., Drincic V., Kuljaca Z., Nikolic Lj. Eye diseases: a textbook for students of the Faculty of Dentistry. Faculty of Dentistry, University of Belgrade, 1989.

Practicum: Kuljača Z, Nikolić Lj. Ophthalmology practicum for students of the Faculty of Dentistry.

Journals: editor of the column in the journal edited by the students of medicine “Medicinski podmladak” (Medical offspring); Secretary of the editorial board of the magazine “Serbian Archives for All Medicine”; editor-in-chief of the journal of the Association of Ophthalmologists of Serbia “Acta Ophthalmologica” (as president of the Association).

Journal Reviewer: Serbian Archives of All Medicine, Military Medical Review, British Journal of Ophthalmology, Current Eye Research, Indian Journal of Ophthalmology.

Book reviewer: Golubović S, Jovanović M, editor (s). Ophthalmology: textbook for the student of medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, 2010 and 2015.
Associations with membership with recommendations: ARVO, Cornea Society.

Significant works:

1. Nikolic Lj, Friend J, Taylor S, Thoft RA. Inhibition of vascularization in rabbit corneas by heparin:cortisone pellets. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1986, 27:449-456.
2. Thoft RA, Friend J, Kinoshita S, Nikolić Lj, Foster CS. Ocular cicatrcial pemphigoid associated with hyperproliferation of conjunctival epithelium. Am J Ophthalmol 1984, 98:37-42.
3. Nikolić Lj, Jovanović V, Lačković V, Todorović V. Endothelial keratoplasty without Descemet’s membrane stripping: histologic and ultrastructural findings. Ophthalmic Res 2009, 43:56-60
4. Jovanović V, Nikolić Lj. The effect of topical doxycycline on corneal neovascularization. Curr Eye Res 2013, 39:142-148.
5. Nikolić Lj, Jovanović V, Delević S. In vivo confocal microscopy of corneoscleral epithelial cyst after spontaneous marsupialization. Cornea 2013; 32:
6. Dergenc S, Nikolic Lj. Simultaneous keratoplasty and cataract extraction. Acta Ophthalmol Iug 1976, 14: 99-104
7. Nikolić Lj. Jovanović V. Descemet stripping endothelial keratoplasty: one year follow-up.Srp Arh Celok Lek 2010, 138:690-693
8. Nikolić Lj, Jovanović V. Deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty in keratoconus.Srp Arh Celok Lek 2007;139:88-91.
9. Nikolić Lj, Jovanović V, Jankov M. One cornea for two patients: case report. Arq brasil oftalmol 2010;73:291-293.
10. Nikolic Lj, Jovanovic V. Simultaneous phacoemulsification, lens implantation and endothelial keratoplasty (triple procedure) – Military Medical Review 2011, 68: 800-803.

Dr Lozica Ristić

Specialist in Ophthalmology

Dr. Lozica Ristić was born in Sokobanja in 1958, where she completed her secondary education. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Niš, and completed her specialization in ophthalmology at the City Hospital in Zvezdara, Belgrade.

Throughout her decades-long career in ophthalmology, she has gained extensive clinical experience. She worked at the “Savski Venac” Health Center for more than three decades and has been a member of the LaserFocus team for the past 15 years.

At LaserFocus Clinic, she practices general ophthalmology, diagnostics, and patient follow-up, with a particular focus on corneal diagnostics and comprehensive ophthalmic assessment. She has extensive experience in preoperative examinations and the evaluation of candidates for laser vision correction and cataract surgery, as well as in the long-term monitoring of patients with keratoconus.

Dr Milica Jeremić

Specialist in Ophthalmology

Dr. Milica Jeremić was born in Belgrade in 1995. She graduated from the Third Belgrade Gymnasium and subsequently earned her medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, in 2020, with a GPA of 9.70 out of 10. She passed the state medical licensing examination in January 2021.

Since June 2021, she has been working at the Clinic for Eye Diseases of the University Clinical Center of Serbia (UKCS). In April 2026, she passed her specialist examination in ophthalmology with distinction, becoming a Specialist in Ophthalmology.

She is currently in the final year of her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade.

Her primary areas of interest include anterior segment and refractive surgery, in which she continues to develop her clinical expertise and scientific knowledge.

Dr Vladimir Bogdanović

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Born in Belgrade in 1980, where he completed the Fifth Belgrade Grammar School. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Kragujevac and completed his specialization in ophthalmology at the Eye Clinic of the Clinical Center of Serbia.

Before and during his specialization, he worked in the field of ocular prosthetics at MB Gamma, and subsequently as an ophthalmologist at Acibadem Bel Medic.

At the LaserFocus Center, he performs ophthalmological examinations and preoperative assessments of patients undergoing cataract surgery and laser vision correction.