Abstract
On Friday, September 27, 2024, Professor Gjuro (Đuro) Deželić, chemist, medical informatics specialist and diplomat, died in Zagreb at the age of 90. Professor Deželić was the founder of the university teaching of Medical Informatics, from 1975 full professor of Medical Informatics at the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb and head of the Department of Informatics at the “Andrija Štampar” School of Public Health in Zagreb. He was associate of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the University of Zagreb (1963– 1971) and the Ruđer Bošković Institute (1968–1975), scientific advisor of the University Computing Center. He dealt with physical chemistry of colloidal systems and macromolecules and physical biochemistry, studied light scattering of pure liquids and their mixtures and dispersed macromolecular and colloidal systems. In the field of Medical Informatics, he was engaged in the design of health information systems in Croatia. He won the “Ruđer Bošković” Award for scientific work (1975). In periods 1992–1993 he was appointed Grand Master of the “Brothers of the Croatian Dragon” Society (Veliki meštar Družbe “Braća Hrvatskoga Zmaja”). From 1993 he served as ambassador in Denmark, and from 1996 to 2000 in Slovakia. Đuro Deželić is the great-grandson of Gjuro Stjepan Deželić, who, together with Đuro Gajdek, is the author of a book about the father of Croatian firefighting. Đuro Deželić obtained the title of Doctor of Science in that field in 1960 at the same faculty. He completed his postdoctoral training in the field of physical chemistry in 1965-1966 in the USA at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He later trained in the field of general informatics and medical informatics in Italy, Great Britain, France, Belgium and Japan. Đuro Deželić was Former President of Yugoslav Association of Medical Informatics (YAMI), Former President of Croatian Society of Medical Informatics (HDMI) and EFMI Council member 1990-1992 (EFMI). He was one of pioneers of Medical informatics in Europe and the world. With pioneers of Medical informatics professors: Stefan Adamic in Slovenia, Rajko Vukašinović in Serbia and Izet Mašić in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the late 80s of the last century he formed Yugoslav Association of Medical Informatics (YAMI), which became official member of EFMI and IMIA in 1990. In this text I added my interview with Professor Deželić which I made a few years ago and published in EFMI Inside magazine in 2020, deposited on www.efmi.org.
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