Rajko Igić

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Rajko Igić (born 1937, Despot Sveti Ivan or Sentivan, Yugoslavia; now Despotovo, Serbia) is a Serbian doctor and scientist. He is best known for his anti-smoking campaign in the Former Yugoslavia and experimental work on the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE).

Igić received his M.D. at the University of Belgrade and Ph.D. at the University of Sarajevo. Igić was a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Tuzla (1978-1992) and the Director of the Department of Scientific, Cultural, and Educational International Exchange for the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1990 to 1992. He left Bosnia after the start of the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Igić has authored numerous papers and books in several fields within medical sciences. Igić currently resides in Chicago, Illinois, where he is a senior scientist in the department of anesthesiology and pain management at Cook County Hospital.

Igić also writes poetry and is a member of the Academy of American Poets. He also devised a combined alphabet, dubbed "Slavica", a fused version of two existing alphabets used to write the Serbo-Croatian language (Cyrilic and Latin alphabet), in an attempt to mend the divisions among the Yugoslav ethnic groups.