Medicinska fakulteta Univerze v Mariboru: Znanstvena monografija o ustanovitvi

The editor Ivan Krajnc completed his studies at the Medical Faculty in Ljubljana in 1973 and in 1978 passed his specialist examination in interna! medicine. In 1981 he received a master's degree at the Medical Faculty in Zagreb and in 1982 he received a doctorate. In 1988 he undertook the tasks of Head of the Department of Rheumatology and lmmunology. Since 1989 he was Head of the Interna! Department Maribor which in 1997 under his management became the Clinical Department far Interna! Medicine. Since 1999 he was the professional director of the University Clinical Centre and then since 2003 until 2020 he was the first dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Maribor (the MF UM).

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: ivan.krajnc@um.si

Chief Physician Dr, Asst Prof. Gregor Pivec, MD, is a surgical specialist at the Maribor University Medica! Centre. He was also the director-general of this institution for many years. He holds a doctorate in the history of medicine, which has always a focus of his; in his doctoral dissertation (2011) he researched the development path of Maribor Hospital from its establishment to the Second World War. He is a lecturer of history of medicine at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Maribor. He is also the head of health sciences at Alma Mater Europaea -European Centre, Maribor. He is the author of numerous articles published in domestic and international journals, most recently with an emphasis on the history of medicine, and is also a member of the Slovenian Medica! History Society. As someone with an in-depth understanding of both Slovenian and foreign health systems and as the long-term director of the central health institution in Maribor, he had a significant influence on its development, as well as on the establishment of the Medica! Faculty in Maribor.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: gregor.pivec@ukc-mb.si