Members of CSB have participated in the organization of the seminar “The Availability of Drugs and Medical Devices to Patients with Rare Diseases”. It did so with the Faculty of Pharmacy of Belgrade University and its Student Organizations (BPSA) (coordinated by Vanja Milosevic) and the Department of Social Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Legislation (mentored by Andrijana Milosevic Georgiev). The seminar was held on 7 March 2014 at the Faculty of Pharmacy.
Speakers at the seminar were Darko Laketic, Assistant Minister in the Serbian Ministry of Health, Sonja Pavlovic from the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, Snezana Plavsic from the Institute for Public Health “Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut” and Vojin Rakic, Director of the Center for the Study of Bioethics and Chair of the Cambridge Working Group for Bioethics Education in Serbia. Dusanka Krajnovic presented the results of a major project on rare diseases that is funded by the Serbian Minsitry of Education, Science and Technological Development. Further participants at this event were Dragan Djurovic, President of the “Association of Persons with Cystic Fibrosis”, and Jelena Tomic, head of the “Association of Patients with Crohn Disease and Ulcerative Colitis”.
The seminar was attended by students of pharmacy from the University in Belgrade, as well as their peers on a student exchange program from Croatia and Slovakia.
