If biography were the only thing necessary in political campaigns, then the name of Branko Radulovacki would be doing a graceful pirouette on the tip of your tongue.
He was born in Belgrade, in what was then Yugoslavia. His medical-researcher father took the family to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, where the toddler Branko learned English.
The family migrated to Chicago and an American life in 1970, when Branko was 7. College and a job in investment banking followed soon enough. Then a master’s in business, a wife and two kids, and an advertising career. Somewhere there’s a portrait of him and Morris the Cat No. 2 of 9 Lives cat food fame.
After that came a 10-year hunt for his bliss via medical school and residency in Chicago and New Haven, Conn. Which led to a job as program director at the Ridgeview Institute in Smyrna and his own psychiatry practice on a high hill in Vinings overlooking the lush greenery of the Atlanta landscape.
“I built my practice working with some very-difficult-to-treat illnesses, people who were in acute crisis — suicidal, psychotic, addiction issues, detoxification, families in disarray and turmoil,” Radulovacki said last week during an interview in his office.
“I’m used to working with people who are in a great state of agitation,” he said. “I’ve treated Democrats, Republicans, libertarians and tea party members.”
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