In memoriam, Obituary

Prof. Branka Pilar-Svoboda (1920-2005) Farewell Speech at the Mirogoj Cemetery, 2nd March 2005

Goran Knežević

Abstract

She was born in Slavonski Brod on 30th November 1920. Matriculated in Slavonska Požega in 1939 and graduated at the School of Medicine in Zagreb in 1945. She later passed specialist examinations in Dental Medicine in 1951 and Maxillofacial Surgery in 1971. She defended her dissertation thesis entitled "Growth and Development of the Jaw in the Innate Cleft Lip and Palate", in 1967 and subsequent habilitation study entitled "Hemihypertrophic and Hemiatrophic Deformations of the Face and Facial Bones" in 1972. In 1944 she began work as a volunteer in the Clinic of Dental Medicine at Šalata, which later became the School of Dental Medicine in Zagreb and the Clinic of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery. During the last few years of the Second World War she assisted in the treatment of numerous wounded people, who at that time occupied the whole of the Clinic at Šalata. She was engaged in maxillofacial surgery, dental medicine and anaesthesiology, and acted as an anaesthesiologist up until the arrival of Prof. Vera Arko to the Clinic in 1964. At the time when Ivo Čupar was preparing his life work "Surgery of the Head and Neck" in 3 volumes Prof. Pilar Svoboda helped with a large part of the work and publishing the books. After her retirement she was confronted with a disease which restricted her communication with people closest to her. As she was a dynamic person such a life was a particularly heavy burden, which at times was hard for her to bear. Fate prevented her enjoyment with Ivna and Mirna in the company of her grandchildren.

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Hrčak ID:

899

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/899

Publication date:

15.3.2005.

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