Isuf Kalo is an Albanian doctor, and Professor of Medicine.

Born in Tepelenë

Tepelenë (town)

Tepelenë is the principal settlement in the eponymous Tepelenë District of southern Albania. It is located on the left bank of the Vjosë river, about three kilometres downstream from its union with the Drino....

, Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

, he finished the Faculty of Medicine in Tirana University in 1964. He is specialized in several countries of Europe in diabetology

Diabetology

Diabetology is the clinical science of diabetes mellitus, its diagnosis, treatment and follow-up. It can be considered a specialised field of endocrinology.The term diabetologist is used in several ways...

 and endocrinology

Endocrinology

Endocrinology is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions called hormones, the integration of developmental events such as proliferation, growth, and differentiation and the coordination of...

. He is one of the pioneers of this specialty in Albania. For several years he chaired the cathedral of endocrinology and metabolic diseases in the Faculty of Medicine and in the University Hospital in Tirana. He is Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of Medicine and
honoured with the Distinguished Scientist Worker of the Albania award. For long years till 1985 he has been the body doctor of the dictator Enver Hoxha. From 1991-2004 he has been employed by the World Health Organization

World Health Organization

The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health...

's Regional Office for Europe (in Copenhagen), heading the European Diabetes Program and later the Quality of Health System Programme in Europe. He is the author of a series of publications in the medical press of the country and abroad. At the same time Prof. Dr Kalo is honorary member of several international committees and Medical Associations in Europe.

Kalo used to be Enver Hoxha

Enver Hoxha

Enver Halil Hoxha was a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary andthe leader of Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania...

's personal doctor.