Obren Joksimović (Serbian Cyrillic: Обрен Јоксимовић; 15 May 1952 – 13 March 2021) was a Serbian surgeon and politician who served as Minister of Health in the Government of Serbia from 25 January 2001 to 22 October 2001.^[1]

Joksimović was born on 15 May 1952 to a Bosnian Serb family in Očevlje, Breza at that time part of PR Bosnia and Herzegovina and FPR Yugoslavia.^[2]

He graduated in 1979 at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, and specialized in general surgery in 1988.^[3]

During the Bosnian War, he participated as a volunteer on numerous battlefields as a war surgeon of the Army of Republika Srpska and at the same time he was a member of the Federal Assembly of FR Yugoslavia as a member of the Serbian Renewal Movement (since 1992).^[2] In 1995, angry and dissatisfied, Joksimović resigned from the parliament and joined the Democratic Party of Serbia together with several other party colleagues.^[3]

He was appointed the Minister of Health in the cabinet of Zoran Đinđić and the Government of Serbia on 25 January 2001 and served until 22 October 2001.^[2]

In September 2004, he defended his doctoral dissertation at Megatrend University, Faculty of Management in Zaječar (whose teacher he became immediately afterwards).^[2]

He was the leader of Democratic Community of Serbia, which emerged from the Democratic Party of Serbia^[4] and merged into Serbian Radical Party.^[5]

Joksimović died from COVID-19 on 13 March 2021, in Belgrade at the age of 68.^[6][7]