Review article
PROFESSOR IVO ŠVEL: THE FIRST DOCTOR OF SCIENCE FROM THE RIJEKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Vladimir Dugački
Abstract
After having completed medical studies and specialisation in paediatrics in Zagreb, Ivo
Švel (born in Vrbanja near Županja in 1923, died in Zagreb in 2000) moved to Paris to
subspecialise in social paediatrics. In 1956, he and professor Karlo Pansini moved to Rijeka
where he set up an outpatient paediatric clinic for the Quarnero area. In 1959 he obtained
the first doctoral degree in paediatrics at the University of Rijeka, and habilitated at the
same University in 1963. He returned to Zagreb with Pansini in 1965 to work at the Zagreb
Mother and Child Healthcare Centre. After professor Pansini’s death, he took over the paediatric
department (later Paediatric Clinic) as an associate professor, and since 1981 ran it
as the full professor until his retirement in 1990. With professor Josip Grgurić he published
the following textbooks in Croatian: Social Paediatrics in 1986, Paediatric Health Care in
1996, and Health Care for Chronic Paediatric Patients in 1998.
Keywords
History of medicine; 20th century; paediatrics; Rijeka; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
101678
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2007.
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