Marija_Zdravković

Marija Zdravković

Marija Zdravković

Serbian cardiologist and politician

Marija Zdravković (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Здравковић; 18 December 1973) is a Serbian medical doctor, administrator, and politician. She has been director of the hospital Bežanijska Kosa in Belgrade since 2014 and is currently serving her second term in the National Assembly of Serbia. Zdravković is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

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Early life and medical career

Zdravković was born in Belgrade, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine in 1998, received a master's degree in cardiology in 2005, and earned a Ph.D. in sports cardiology in 2010. She later completed post-doctoral studies in Zürich. Zdravković is credited as being the first cardiologist in Serbia to introduce cardiomagnetic resonance into regular clinical practice.[1][2]

She was appointed as a clinical assistant at the Faculty of Medicine in 2012 and became director of Bežanijska Kosa in September 2014.[3]

Politician

Zdravković led the SNS's electoral list for New Belgrade in the 2020 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won twenty-two out of forty-nine mandates.[4][5][6] Aleksandar Šapić's Serbian Patriotic Alliance (SPAS) narrowly defeated the SNS in this municipality, and the SNS did not initially participate in the local government. The SPAS merged into the Progressive Party in 2021.[7]

Parliamentarian and city assembly member

Zdraković received the sixth position on the SNS's Together We Can Do Everything list in the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election and the second position (after Šapić) in the concurrent 2022 Belgrade City Assembly election.[8][9] In both cases, her placement was tantamount to election; she was elected to the national assembly when the SNS alliance won 120 out of 250 seats and to the city assembly when it won forty-eight out of 110 seats.

She resigned from the city assembly on 11 June 2022 (i.e., the day that it convened) and from the national assembly on 25 October 2022.[10][11] During her first national assembly term, she was a member of the health and family committee and the committee on the rights of the child, and a deputy member of the environmental protection committee and the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction.[12]

She appeared in the fourth position on the SNS's Serbia Must Not Stop list in the 2023 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected to a second term when the list won a majority victory with 129 seats.[13] She is once again a member of the health and family committee and the committee on the rights of the child.[14]

References

  1. [1]
    Marija Zdravković, istinomer.rs, accessed 11 July 2023.
  2. [2]
    "Doc. dr Marija Zdravković, kardiolog, direktorka KBC Bežanijska kosa", Radio Television of Serbia, 30 March 2023, accessed 11 July 2023.
  3. [3]
    "ZAPAMTITE IME MARIJA ZDRAVKOVIĆ!", Novosti, 7 August 2020, accessed 11 July 2023.
  4. [4]
    Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 64 Number 72 (10 June 2020), p. 25.
  5. [5]
    Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 64 Number 86 (9 July 2020), p. 2.
  6. [6]
    Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 64 Number 100 (8 September 2020), p. 26.
  7. [7]
    "Unanimously - SNS and SPAS united", 29 May 2021, accessed 4 July 2021.
  8. [8]
    "Ko su kandidati SNS za narodne poslanike?", Danas, 17 February 2022, accessed 17 April 2022.
  9. [9]
    Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 66 Number 35 (18 March 2022), p. 1.
  10. [10]
    Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 66 Number 59 (11 June 2022), p. 1.
  11. [11]
    1 August 2022 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 29 March 2024.
  12. [12]
    MARIJA Doc. Dr Sci. med ZDRAVKOVIC, Archived 6 October 2022 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 11 July 2023.
  13. [13]
    "Pogledajte ko su kandidati na Vučićevoj listi Srbija ne sme da stane", Danas, 3 November 2023, accessed 29 March 2024.
  14. [14]
    MARIJA Doc. Dr Sci. med ZDRAVKOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 29 March 2024.
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