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Djordje ALEMPIJEVIC

About: Dr. Djordje Alempijevic was born on 1967 in Belgrade, Serbia where he had graduated at Faculty of Medicine University of Belgrade (FMUB), completed specialist training in forensic medicine, and got Ph.D. degree. At Monash University in Melbourne, Australia he got Diploma in Forensic Medicine. Since 1993 Dr. Alempijevic has been employed by FMUB, he had been appinted as assistant professor in 2006 and became associated professor of Forensic Medicine in 2012. He has profound profesional interest in human rights and promotion of role of forensic medicine in cases of interpersonal violence. Dr. Alemijevic authored or co-authored numeros papers published in different journals. He was involved in varies professionally activities related to people who went missing due to arm conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia, including exhumation and examination of mortal remains from mass graves. In the ICRC project “The Missing”, lounched in 2003 Dr. Alempijevic has been involved as expert and in that capacity he had compleated mission to Georgia (2001) in respect to conflict in Abhasia. He is activly co-operating with the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) from Copenhagen, Denmark and its International Forensic Expert Group (IFEG). In that capacity, he conducted trainings on Istanbul Protocol in Serbia, Georgia and Kazakhstan. As IFEG member he inter alia had conducted a mission to the Russian Federation to gather forensic evidence on torture which has been submitted as evidence to the European Court of Human Rights. Since 2004 the International Organisation for Migration occasionally involves Dr. Alempijevic in its activities, mainly trainings, in Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia Herzegovina and in its International Training Centre in Belarus Republic. In 2009 he had joined expert team of Ombudsman of Serbia (“Protector of Citizens”), which since 2011 started work in capacity of the NPM, to conduct visits to the places of detention. Since 2011 he has been elected as a member of European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) in respect of Serbia. Currently, Dr. Alempijevic is involved in Russian PMC Project - joint activity of the Human Rights Commissioner of the Russian Federation and the Directorate of Human Rights of the Council of Europe aiming to support effective public monitoring of places of detention in the Russian Federation. Since 2013 he had been appointed as a member of the Management Committee of COST Action IS1302 “Towards an EU research framework on forensic psychiatric care”. Dr. Alempijevic have had presentations on torture prevention and monitoring places of detention nationally and internationally – to mention ones in Finland, Russian Federation, and Spain. He is Foundation Member of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine at Royal College of Medicine in London, UK. Dr. Alempijevic is a member of Stearing Committe of Victimology Society of Serbia, and member of Serbian Physicians Society, International Academy of Legal Medicine, and American Academy of Forensic Sciences.