Dr Luka Jovanović

Junior Clinical Fellow in General Internal Medicine

Lister Hospital · East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust · Stevenage, UK

Clerking acute medical takes, inpatient ward care, and contributing to multidisciplinary discharge planning.

• Clerked acute medical takes including deteriorating patients with escalation to seniors
• Presented cases on the consultant-led post-take round and contributed to multidisciplinary inpatient care

Foundation Year 2 Doctor

Lister Hospital · East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust · Stevenage, UK

FY2 rotations across General Practice, Emergency Medicine, and Trauma & Orthopaedics. Assessing acute presentations, performing supervised emergency procedures, and contributing to multidisciplinary care.

• Assessed and participated in the supervised management of diverse emergency presentations including cardiac arrests, major trauma, and sepsis
• Conducted comprehensive GP consultations across diverse patient demographics
• Assisted in theatre and helped manage post-operative orthopaedic patients under supervision
• Supervised a final-year medical student performing ultrasound-guided cannulation (Horus LEADER assessment, Feb 2025)
• Contributed to multidisciplinary team coordination and complex discharge planning

Foundation Year 1 Doctor

Lister Hospital · East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust · Stevenage, UK

FY1 rotations across General Surgery, Respiratory Medicine, and Geriatric Medicine. Developed foundational clinical skills across medical and surgical specialties.

• Provided first-contact overnight cover for the medical inpatients of the Tower Block at Lister Hospital (230+ patients across its wards), with on-call senior support and escalation as needed
• Delivered bedside and ward-based teaching to medical students, including two formally observed sessions with positive feedback (Horus, May 2024 onwards)
• Assisted in theatre including laparoscopic procedures and emergency operations
• Contributed to complex discharge planning for elderly patients with multimorbidity under senior supervision
• Developed Python rota webscraper for .ics calendar conversion (taken up by colleagues)

Electronic fillable outpatient referral forms

Lister Hospital · Quality improvement

Aim: replace handwritten, scanned outpatient referral forms with standardised electronic fillable forms. Measure: proportion of referrals received complete and legible, before and after the change.

• Started the project myself: collected the Trust's paper referral forms and rebuilt them as electronic fillable versions
• Handled the information governance so patient data only goes where it should
• First audit cycle under way

Operative length of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Addenbrooke's Hospital · Service evaluation, published in Cureus 2025

• 157 reconstructions by 5 consultant surgeons, April 2019 – December 2023: operative time, length of stay and complications; registered as PRN12527

Reported in publication [4]

Emergency laparotomy (NELA) pathway timings

Lister Hospital · Quality improvement, team project

Measured each interval from ED admission to surgical review, CT request, CT scan, CT report and theatre.

• Extracted the data, cleaned inconsistently formatted entries from several extractors and applied the inclusion criteria
• Processed and visualised the data for the team

MB BChir — Medicine

University of Cambridge · Cambridge, UK

Cambridge University Rugby · Friends of Médecins Sans Frontières

MA (Cantab) — Pharmacology

University of Cambridge · Cambridge, UK

Upper Second Class Honours (2:i) · Intercalated degree

Intercalated degree investigating predictive DNA damage markers in triple-negative breast cancer using immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy techniques.

A-Levels — Sciences

Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys · Canterbury, UK

A* Chemistry · A* Biology · A Mathematics

Saracens Rugby Academy (2014–2015) and Kent County Rugby Union Football Club (2012–2017).