Prof Vlora Ismaili-Jaha
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Prof Assoc Dr Vlora Ismaili – Jaha was born in Gjilan. She completed primary and secondary school in her hometown. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in 1994 in Zagreb, Republic of Croatia. She completed her specialization in pediatrics in 2004. She began her postgraduate studies in pediatrics in 2002 and completed them in 2004. In 2007, she defended her master’s degree, and in 2015, she defended her doctorate at the University of Prishtina. Since 2007, she has been elected Assistant in the Department of Pediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine in Prishtina. In 2018, she was elected Assistant Professor, and in 2022, she was promoted to Associate Professor. She is the author of the book "Pediatrics and Nursing Care" and the monograph "The Importance of Epidemiological Features and Clinical and Laboratory Parameters for the Initiation of Antimicrobial Therapy for the Treatment of Acute Infectious Diarrhea in Children 0-5 Years of Age" while co-author of the university book "Pediatrics" and "Pediatrics for Dentistry Students" She is the author and co-author of 34 papers in international and local peer-reviewed scientific journals, and of many scientific papers, professional papers and conference papers presented at national and international meetings. She is the secretary of the Kosovo Pediatric Association and a member of the Kosovo Medical Association and the Association for Rare Diseases. She represents Kosovo in the J-Project, which is a European organization for Primary Immunodeficiency. She currently works at the Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology of the University Clinical Center of Kosovo in Prishtina.