His mother saved him by carrying him through Miljacka: Damir Ljuboja graduated in medicine from Harvard, he is one of the best young doctors of his generation.

Damir Ljuboja from Sarajevo graduated in medicine from Harvard University as one of the best young doctors of his generation.

The story of this successful young doctor was published by Dr. Edhem Čustović, who lives in Australia.

Ljuboja is a doctor of interventional radiology at MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Texas.

He interned at Newton-Wellesley (Mass General Brigham) Hospital in 2020-2021, where he received the Department of Medicine Award for Most Outstanding Performance.

He earned an MD degree with honors in his specialty, Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Medical School and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

He also earned undergraduate degrees in biology and humanities as a Dean’s Honor Roll (top 1% of students) at the University of Texas at Austin.

“Although Damir is an amazing doctor and many of his peers consider him a rising star, he also conducts research and has a dozen publications to his name,” says Čustović.

He has received numerous other awards, including the Dr. Constantin Cope Medical Student Research Award from the Society for Interventional Radiology, which recognizes outstanding achievements in research and innovation.

“In the deep Sarajevo winter, my mother’s hands were shaking as she waded through the Miljacka river, carrying a four-year-old over her head. That child, terrified and gray, was me. The dispensary was five blocks from our apartment building and the river was unforgiving but provided cover from the surrounding snipers. The situation demanded action: I was suffering from pneumonia and dehydration, and the war was raging. That day my hero led me to recovery. Sixteen years later, I returned to Bosnia as an intern at Abdluah Nakaš General Hospital. As I walked through the sunlit corridors, sickness hung in the air. Room by room, I examined the residents with my supervisor. Some rooms housed patients like Mark, whose skin infection would clear up in a few days. He perked up, grinning as we entered the room. In other rooms, there were patients like Sukrija, whose flabby body had lost its movement due to an intractable neurological disease. I struggled with the unfair, merciless nature of the disease. As I got older, I found meaning in trying to heal others. Through the windows in the sick rooms, I can still see the river Miljacka flowing in the distance. I will carry them as my mother carried me”, were the words of Dr. Damir Ljuboja in an emotional description of his childhood and the path to what he is today.

About this young doctor The Faculty of Natural Sciences in Texas has been around for a long time wrote.

“After moving with his family to Houston from Sarajevo, Damir was committed to numerous social and service activities. As Professor Arturo DeLozanne writes: “Cumulatively, all these activities testify to a deep sense of social responsibility and maturity… he is not only a bright and diligent student and scientist, he is also a socially conscious person dedicated to improving the lives of those around him,” reads the description of the Faculty of Natural Sciences science in Texas, reports the Liberation.

Watch the video that FACE TV recorded about him eight years ago:https://youtu.be/2eUvDOdPxPc?si=UZrt_vxAsp2y9_LV