Bojana Beovic

prof. Bojana Beović, MD, PhD was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She graduated at Medical School University in Ljubljana in 1982 where she obtained her master degree and PhD. In 1993 she passed the board exam in infectious diseases in University Medical Centre Ljubljana. She was further educated in pharmacology at the University of Zagreb, Croatia and at The University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. Since 1986, she has been employed at the Department of Infectious Diseases at the University Medical Centre in Ljubljana. She was attending physician at the intensive care unit from 1993 to 2004. From 2005 to 2008 she was assistant medical director of University Medical Centre in Ljubljana. She was the member of Patient Safety Working Group at the High Level Group on Health Services and Medical Care at the European Commission from 2006 to 2009, since 2009 she is a deputy member of the Working Group for Patient Safety and Quality at the European Commission. From 2006 to 2009 she was the president of the Health Council at the Ministry of Health of Slovenia. Since 2012, she is the President of the Educational Council at the Medical Chember of Slovenia. Currently, she is the head of the ID Consultancy Service at UMC Ljubljana. Since 2004 she is the president of the Slovenian Society of Chemotherapy and since 2005 the vice-president of the Intersectoral Coordination Mechanism for Prudent Use of Antimicrobials at the Ministry of Health. Since 2008 she is the head of the Antibiotic Committee in UMC Ljubljana. At the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious diseases (ESCMID), she was the honorary secretary of the ESCMID Study group for Antibiotic policies (ESGAP), and the chair of ESGAP from 2014-2018. She is full professor of infectious diseases at the Medical School, University of Ljubljana. She is also involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education at the faculty of Pharmacy and Faculty of Biotechnology. She was the organizer and co-organizer of several international and national scientifical meetings and educational courses. Her current focus of interest in research is antibiotic stewardship, infections in surgery, infections with multiple resistant bacteria (ESBL producing bacteria and MRSA) and chronic wound infections.