https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8866-5749

Professor Mirza Biscevic, MD PhD was born in Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). He has completed his under and postgraduate studies with excellent marks, in Austria and Slovenia. For more than 20 years he has been devoted to the development of orthopedics in our country and introduced many modern spine surgery techniques after his many felloships in Turkey and USA. Ten years ago he has established a modern spine center at the Department of orthopedics of Clinical Center of Sarajevo University (KCUS). His outstanding CV is enriched with dozens of publications, nationally and internationally recognized, many of them are in CC and SCI classifications. Remarkably, Prof. Mirza Biscevic was elected as the youngest professor of surgery (age of 34 y.) in our country and was head of orthopedics curricula at University of Tuzla. Thousands of surgeries, 12 generations of students, a few masters of sciences have been emerged under his supervision. Also, his achievement is internationally recognized by the function of member at large in Executive Committee of the EFORT (European Federation of Orthopedic and Traumatology Associations, www. efort.net). Additionally, he is the current President of Bosnia & Herzegovina Orthopedic Association (UOTBIH, www-uotbih.ba), member of Scoliosis Research Society (www.srs.org), and common board member and organisator of plenty orthopedic meetings in the region. In many research projects he has taken a significant part, for instance two European COST projects.