MD
Novi Sad, Serbia

Ass.professor Olivera Ivanov is currently head of the Radiation Oncology Department at Oncology Institute of Vojvodina and head of the Department of Oncology at Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad. She gained her medical degree in 2008. and started as medical doctor at Oncology Institute of Vojvodina. PhD thesis „Importance of positron emission tomography-computed tomography examination in initial colorectal cancer staging “she defended in 2014. and in 2016. she specialized in Radiation Oncology. She was appointed teaching assistant at Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine in 2016, PhD assistant at Department of Oncology in 2020, and assistant professor in 2023. Olivera Ivanov is member of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO), and active member of the Breast Cancer Working Group of the GEC-ESTRO. She is member of the Association of Radiotherapy and Oncology of the Mediterranean Area (AROME) and member of the presidential board of Serbian Medical Society- Radiotherapy Section. She is head of the National Guideline in Breast cancer Radiotherapy and head of the breast cancer radiotherapy group in front of Serbia in Central and Eastern European Academy of Oncology. She is regional trainer in implementing 3D brachytherapy. Assistant Professor Olivera Ivanov is from 2020. Deputy Provincial Secretary for Health, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia. Olivera Ivanov’s clinical research interest include brachytherapy, the management of breast cancer, gynecological and rectal cancers, stereotactic radiotherapy and radiosurgery and new technologies development in radiation oncology. She is author and co-author of 48 peer-reviewed publications and editor of the monography Contemporary Radiation Oncology, the only educational monography of radiation oncology published in Serbian language. Assistant professor Olivera Ivanov is married and mother of two children.