OÄ Dr. Dijana Pekić

Head of PCOS center
Fertility Expert
Gynaecologist

About

Born in Sarajevo in 1972 as the second daughter of two doctors
married, one son (*2008), one daughter (*2013)

Languages

German, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, English

Specialities:

  • Polycystic ovary syndrome - PCOS
  • Hyperandrogenaemia
  • Ovarian insufficiency
  • Habitual abortions
  • 1991 High school graduation in Sarajevo and start of medical studies at the Medical Faculty of the University of Sarajevo.
  • 1992 Escape from the war to Germany with my sister, two years older than me, and forced interruption of studies
  • 1992 - 1994 Nursing work in the senior citizens' home of the BRK Bamberg/Germany
  • 1994 Resumption of medical studies at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlagen, Germany.
  • During the whole study period I continued to work 19 hours/week (since 1996 on-call duties and night guards at the University Hospital Erlangen)
  • 04/2000-03/2001 Practical year at the University Hospital Erlangen-Nuremberg (internal medicine, surgery, gynaecology)
  • 05/2001 Completion of medical studies (overall grade 1.6)
  • 2001-2003 Internship, then assistant doctor at the University Women's Hospital in Erlangen
  • 02/2003 Completion of doctoral thesis at the Medical University Hospital I in Erlagen (dissertation entitled "Prospective recording of the quality of life of patients in an internal intensive care unit over time and comparison with the quality of life of the overall German population")
  • 03/2003-08/2006 Resident at the University Women's Hospital Innsbruck in the field of gynaecology and obstetrics; gaining in-depth experience and scientific work in the special field of endocrinology and reproductive medicine
  • 08/2006-01/2007 Resident at the University Women's Hospital Ulm/Germany
  • 01/2007 Specialist examination in gynaecology and obstetrics - Ulm/Germany
  • 01/2007-08/2009 Specialist and research assistant at the Endocrinology Department of the University Women's Hospital Ulm/Germany (03/2008-08/2009 parental leave)
  • Since September 2009 I have been a senior physician at the Kinderwunschzentrum an der Wien (formerly Kinderwunschzentrum Goldenes Kreuz).
  • 2011 Foundation of the "PCOS center" at the Kinderwunschzentrum an der Wien.

"Due to my language skills and my family background, it is a special pleasure for me to help our fellow human beings from the area of the entire former Yugoslavia to find their way to a desired child in their mother tongue."