Milos Brankovic, MD, PhD, MSc is a cardiology fellow at University of Minnesota, USA. He completed his internal medicine residency at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, USA. He earned his medical degree from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine in Serbia, and a doctorate from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in the Netherlands. He also holds a master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology from the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES).
Born in Belgrade, Serbia, he studied medicine at the University of Belgrade, where he was elected Editor-in-Chief of the medical scientific journal “Medical Youth” and Vice-President of the Organizing Committee of the first Global Students Conference of Biomedical Sciences in Belgrade, Serbia. Having achieved a ranking in the top 1% of his class, he received a training scholarship for heart transplant and mechanical circulatory support under the mentorship of Dr. Bud Frazier in 2013 and 2014 at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, USA. In 2014, he obtained his M.D. degree with an average grade of 10,00/10,00. For his work, he was awarded several times, including the “Nikola Spasic” Award for the best-graduated medical student at the University of Belgrade.
In 2015, Dr. Brankovic completed his internship at the Clinic for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery in Belgrade. Subsequently, he obtained funding from the European Commission for his Ph.D. project under the mentorship of Prof. Eric Boersma at the Department of Cardiology, Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 2016, he studied at the University of Cambridge Institute of Public Health in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Subsequently, he earned his M.Sc. degree in Clinical Epidemiology, where he was awarded the NIHES Best Master’s Thesis Award. In 2019, he completed his Ph.D. dissertation on the cardiorenal interactions in acquired heart disease with Cum Laude. The Cum Laude Award is an academic recognition for an outstanding achievement awarded to the top 1-2% of doctorates in the Netherlands. Thereafter, he completed his post-doc fellowship at the Department of Cardiology, Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam.
In addition, Dr. Brankovic is actively involved in cardiovascular research and has authored/co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and one book. He serves as a reviewer for several reputed medical journals and actively involved in several national and international committees. Area of his interests includes organs’ interactions including cardio-renal and cardio-hepatic interactions, heart failure, structural heart disease, percutaneous and minimally invasive interventions, mechanical circulatory support with a focus on clinical decision making and management of complex patients.