Cover of the book
U sjeni, okružen svjetlom: dr. Ivan Matijašić – život i djelo (1916. – 2001.)
[In the shadow, surrounded by light: Dr. Ivan Matijašić – life and work (1916 – 2001)]
author: Robert Matijašić, publisher: Kathedra Čakavski sabor Pazin, 2016.

Ivan Matijašić

Ivan Matijašić, Croatian surgeon (Pazin, February 8, 1916 – Pula, January 29, 2001). He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Perugia (Italy), and as a young doctor he served in Pazin, Lošinj, Rijeka and the General Hospital in Pula. He cooperated with the National Liberation Movement, and in September 1943 he founded and ran a partisan hospital in Pazin and Gologorica. Arrested on October 25, 1943 and taken to the Dachau concentration camp. After returning, he worked in Pazin until 1948, when he transferred to the surgical department of the Pula General Hospital. After completing his specialization in surgery in Zagreb, in 1962 he was appointed head of the surgical department of the Pula hospital. He organized and improved medical work and service in the department. He founded the intensive care unit, reorganized the service into departments: traumatology, abdominal surgery, urology; encouraged the work of transfusiology, pathology service, laboratory and radiology. In surgery, he introduced single-layer suturing (single-layer suture) along the entire length of the alimentary canal, and he performed skin transplants for burns from multiple donors. He showed interest in acupuncture and hypnosis in surgery. He perfected hand surgery and performed vascular thoracic and neurosurgical procedures, including those from pediatric surgery. He established a laboratory for experimental research on animals, respecting all ethical norms for such procedures. He worked abroad for several years (Libya, Germany).
REF.: Istarska enciklopedija (2005), online edition. Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, 2024. https://istra.lzmk.hr/clanak/matijasic-ivan
Istrapedia, Istrian online encyclopedia, https://www.istrapedia.hr/hr/natuknice/239/matijasic-ivan

The Croatian Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy preserves photodocumentation on cases from the medical practice of Dr. Ivan Matijašić, a donation from his son, academician Robert Matijašić.