Professor Ante Vukas (1910-1991) - always ahead of his time

The biography of Professor Ante Vukas, MD, PhD, is accompanied by due account of his professional and organizing competences, at first as head of the Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Susak Hospital, later head of the University Department at the same hospital, introducing the latest methods in the diagnosis and therapy of skin and venereal diseases (epidermotectoscopy, corrective dermatology, immunotherapy, electron microscopy, immunohistology, PUVA therapy, etc.). Although all these methods were introduced at the institution headed by Professor Vukas first in the former state, and some of them even first in Europe, he had never received any formal recognition of his professional and scientific work from either his University Hospital, or School of Medicine where he was also employed, or the city where he worked for more than 40 years. Professor Vukas was a proud man, standing these insults with dignity, steadily keeping his feelings about them as well as his own achievements to himself.