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INTERVIEW

Igor Tulevski

CEO of Cardiology Centers Netherlands

The medicine of the future will be
preventive and more interactive

Igor is an excellent example of people who left abroad, accomplished great success and make
you feel proud for this. A cardiologist with a diploma and a doctoral degree from the University
in Amsterdam, and one of the founders of Cardiology Centers Netherlands, an innovative
organization which, as he says, changes the face of the Dutch cardiology. With him we discussed
about the healthcare system of the Netherlands, the new technologies in medicine and what it
would look like in the future. And do not miss to read his incredible answer, in 19 words, in regard
to what we can do to make things better in this country. He will be one of the speakers at the
Summit organized by “Macedonia2025” which will take place in Skopje, in October this year

After the independence of Macedo- dence, I went there for a weekend, in order
nia, many young people left this country to visit friends who lived in Amsterdam at
and went abroad. You are one of them and the time, a weekend that still lasts. I was im-
on the way, you achieved incredible profes- mediately charmed by Amsterdam, a world
sional successes. You went to the University city with a feeling as “our neighborhood”. I
in Amsterdam where in the period from 1993 decided to extend the weekend, at the time
to 1998 you finished medicine and you com- it was relatively easy to find a job in a res-
pleted your doctoral studies. Why medicine taurant. After this I contacted the Faculty of
and why the Netherlands? Medicine, in relatively short time I learned
the language and I continued my studies in
I. Tulevski: The Netherlands was a coinci- Amsterdam. Medicine had always been my

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