Milena Rajković joined the Hemofarm Foundation team in January 2017 and since then she has been coordinating the Educational Program, and the Mentorship Program initiated within the program in the same year.

Already in the first year of implementation, the program was awarded in the category of corporate volunteering by the Smart Kolektiv and Responsible Business Forum. Milena is involved in the Foundation’s projects, campaigns and activities, including the most important and most awarded ones both in the country and abroad – ‘The Most Important Call in Life’ – on organ donation and transplantation, ‘Don’t Let it Burst’ – on prevention of high blood pressure.

She started her career in the late 1990s as an active violinist, manager of the string quartet ‘INTERMECO’. From 2010 to 2015, she held the position of the Director of the Cultural Institution ‘Steamboat’ - the cultural centre of the Municipality of Stari grad in Belgrade, where she managed over 1500 projects and programs related to culture, education and socially responsible projects.

Alena Pajić has been employed with the company Hemofarm since 1994. She joined Hemofarm Foundation in 2000, first as a business secretary and now she holds the position of the Project Manager.

Alena successfully coordinates the project ‘Academy of Hemofarm Foundation’ that is aimed at supporting professional development of healthcare workers in the field of contemporary medicine, methods of treatment and access to patients, as well as the ‘People to People’ actions of Hemofarm and Hemofarm Foundation employees for supporting the socially vulnerable categories of the society.

She was appointed the Senior Corporate Affairs and Communications Director of Hemofarm in July 2014.

She was formerly a Program Director for RTV, Director and Editor of Informative Program in RTV B82 and one of the founders of RTV B92, as well as a journalist and editor for Radio Belgrade.

She was born in 1968. She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade.

Prof. Dr. Svetozar Putnik is the Director of the Clinic for Cardiac Surgery at the Clinical Centre of Serbia.

He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, where he also earned his master and doctor’s degree. He teaches the subject Surgery with Anaesthesiology at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade. He completed residency training in general surgery and fellowship in cardiac surgery. He passed training in the Netherlands, USA and France. As an author and co-author, he published numerous papers. He is the principal investigator on the international project ‘Avatar’, initiated at the Clinical Centre of Serbia.

So far, he has performed over 5000 cardiovascular procedures and a significant number of surgical procedures in the area of peripheral vascular surgery and implantation of a free-standing pacemaker. Prof. Dr. Svetozar Putnik is one of the initiator of the program of mechanical support of the circulation and cardiac transplantation and also of the coronary artery surgery performed on a beating heart.