National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia

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Biography

Professor SLAVICA ĐUKIĆ DEJANOVIĆ, PhD was born in 1951 in Rača. She attended elementary school “Radoje Domanović” and the First Gymnasium in Kragujevac. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, where she also completed her Master’s and Doctoral studies, specializing in neuropsychiatry.

Since 1982 she has been teaching psychiatry, ethics, and patient communication skills at the Department of Psychiatry of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kragujevac. She was the youngest woman in Šumadija to earn a PhD degree in medical sciences. She was Vice Chancellor at the University of Kragujevac, and Vice Dean of International Cooperation at the Faculty of Medicine in Kragujevac.
She is a tenured professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry.

She serves as mentor to Masters and PhD candidates in the area of neurosciences, as well as in specialized psychiatric studies and sub-specialized studies of forensic psychiatry. She is the President of the Ethics Committee and member of the Committee for Forensic Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine in Kragujevac, and a permanent member of the Commission for Specialization in Psychiatry at the Military Medical Academy Hospital (VMA) in Belgrade.

She is the author of seven books, two textbooks for full-time students, and the co-author of three textbooks for post-graduate students. She is the author and co-author of more than two hundred scientific and expert papers and the main researcher in many clinical studies and scientific research projects.

She founded the Psychiatric Day Hospital in Kragujevac. She served two mandates as Vice President of the Psychiatric Section of Serbia, and was a member of the Presidium of the Psychiatric Section of Yugoslavia. She is currently the Vice President of the Association of Psychiatrists of Serbia. She was Director of the Clinical Hospital Center in Kragujevac from 1993 to 2000, and Director of the Psychiatric Clinic in Kragujevac.

She received recognition from the Psychiatric Section of the Serbian Doctors’ Association, was recognized for her contribution to the health profession of the city of Kragujevac, and was awarded the Đurđevdan Award. On the Day of the Faculty of Medicine in Kragujevac in 2007, fourth-year students pronounced her the best lecturer.

She served three mandates as MP in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and a member of the Health Committee. From 2000 to 2006 she was MP in the Federal Parliament of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia and the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. In the transitional government of the Republic of Serbia she was the Minister of Family Care and a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

She has been a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia since it was founded in 1990. Several times she was a member of the SPS Executive Committee of the Main Committee, President of the SPS District Committee of Šumadija from 2000 to 2007, and Vice President of the Main Committee of SPS in 1996. At the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Party of Serbia, in 2006, she was elected to the same function.

She lives in Kragujevac. She is married to Ranko Dejanović, has a son Dušan and grandchildren Filip and Nina.