Gordana Bukara-Radujković

True progress only comes through science, and science develops through research, so research work for me is the right way to develop and help people. This is my focus.

Gordana Bukara-Radujković, MD, MSc, PhD, is an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Banja Luka, specializing in pediatric endocrinology. She was a winner of the International award of the American Association of Pediatricians in the field of pediatric endocrinology and was awarded the Order of the Cross of Mercy for her humanitarian work with children with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Bukara-Radujković played a pivotal role as the initiator of the first pediatric endocrinology department at the Banja Luka Children's Clinic in the Republic of Srpska, where she currently serves as the head. Since 1994, during her work at the Clinic for Children's Diseases, she has been instrumental in the pioneering development of the field, making significant contributions in the field of diabetology.

There is little information on the incidence of diabetes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and none of them cover the entire country. Due to the complex structure of the country, many data points are missing. With submitted research, Bukara-Radujković put her country in the IDF map and helped them correct the data they previously had.

Hopefully, the results of our research will help to determine the answer to the question of how COVID-19 pandemic influenced the incidence of type 1 diabetes globally. Furthermore, the results of our research could help local and global health policy makers to make action plans, prevention programs, etc. on how to act in potentially future pandemic crises and not let patient to be admitted to the hospital with ketoacidosis before diabetes is detected.

Her family is her biggest support and through that support she finds the energy for further work.