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A 1978 graduate of Kaunas Medical Institute with internships in Austria, Germany, USA, etc. Author of more than 50 scientific publications, and a member of several organizations including the Vice President of Lithuania Orthopaedists-Traumatolologists Society, the European Orthopaedists-Traumatologists Federation and the General Assembly, the Lithuanian Society of Paediatric, and the Board of Experimental and Clinical Medicine Institute, Vilnius University.

Activity areas

Arthroscopic knee joint surgery

Education

1972 -1978 y. Kaunas  Medical institute, doctor‘s speciality
1978 - 1979 y. Vilnius University, Faculty of Medicine, internship
1986 - 1988 y. Kaunas Medical institute orthopedic-traumatology clinical residency

Professional experience

Works as orthopedic-traumatologist since 1979.
Workplaces:  Head of Department at Varėna RCH; Head of Department at Kaunas orthopedic company; Deputy Minister of Lithuanian Republic Ministry of Health; Head of Orthopedic-traumatology Department at Vilnius Ambulance Hospital
Since 2008 works as doctor orthopedic-traumatologist at JSC "Kardiolita Clinics"

Professional development

Internships in Germany, Italy, Finland, Denmark

Public activity

• Member of Lithuanian Society of Orthopaedists Traumatologists
• Full member of European Society of Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery & Arthroscopy (ESSKA) and International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS)

Education

1999-2006 y. Kaunas University of Medicine
2006-2007 y. Postgraduate studies, primary residency, Klaipėda University Hospital
2007-2012 y. Specialized residency in orthopaedics and traumatology at Kaunas University of Medicine
2012 y. Orthopaedic-Traumatologist License
2019 y. Master's degree in Public Health Management. Research work “Optimization of activity processes of X units of secondary health care institution”

Professional experience

Since 2012 y. doctor orthopaedist-traumatologist Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas Hospital
Since 2014 y. Kardiolita Hospital, orthopaedist-traumatologist

Scientific activity

2012-2021 y. assistant at the Clinic of Orthopaedic Traumatology, Lithuanian University’s of Health Sciences Medical Academy
2012-2015 y. Sub-researcher at Parexel International
2017 y. Sub-researcher at Tissue Engineering Technologies AG and Scope International AG

Professional improvement

2013 y. American, Austrian Foundation. Weill Cornell Seminar in Trauma & Emergency Surgery, Austria
2013 y. Lithuanian Society of Orthopaedic-Traumatologists, basic trauma courses, Lithuania
2016 y. Club Arthroscopy Practical Course, Orthopadische Surgery Munhen, Germany
2018 y. Shoulder Arthroscopy Cadaveric “Deconstruction to Reconstruction of the Shoulder Instructional Courses” London, UK
Participant of international orthopaedic-traumatology conferences and seminars in Great Britain, Holland, Italy, Germany, France, etc.

Memberships

Lithuanian Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology (LOTD)
Kaunas Regional Scientific Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (KKOTMD)
The European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT)
Lithuania Arthroscopy and Sports Traumatology Association (LASTA)
European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA)

Education

1993 - 1999 y. MD, Vilnius University
1999 - 2004 y. Orthopaedic surgeon, Vilnius University
2015 y. PhD, Vilnius University

Professional experience

2004 - 2004 y. III Orthopaedics Traumatology department of Republic Vilnius University Hospital, Orthopaedic surgeon
2004 - 2008 y. Traumatology Emergency department of Republic Vilnius University Hospital, Orthopaedic surgeon
From 2004 y. Northway Medicine Centers, Orthopaedic surgeon
From 2005 y. Orthopaedics department of Republic Vilnius University Hospital, Orthopaedic surgeon
From 2005 y. Kardiolita clinic, Orthopaedic surgeon
From 2016 y. Orthopaedics department of Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Klinikos, Orthopaedic surgeon

Membership

2005 y. Member of the Lithuanian Society of Orthopaedics and Tramatology
2005 y. Member of the Scientific Society of Orthopaedics and Tramatology of Vilnius Region
2012 y. Board member of the Lithuanian Society of Orthopaedics and Tramatology
2010 y. Member of the Lithuanian Joint Replacement Society
2014 y. Board member of the Lithuanian Joint Replacement Society
2015 y. Member of the Lithuanian Foot and Ankle Society

Training Courses

2002 y. Academic exchange program in Joint Replacements and Orthopaedic Surgery established by the Keggi Orthopaedic Foundation, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
2005 y. Rigshospitalet of the Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005 y. Salzburg Weill Cornell seminars „Bone and Joint Surgery“, Salzburg, Austria
2008 y. Oxford® Partial Knee Advanced Instructional Course, Oxford, UK
2012 y. Difficult Primary and Revision. Knee education. Solzalpe, Austria
2013 y. Biomet 4th Swiss Oxford Instructional Course, Lucerne, Switzerland
2015 y. TKA Primary and Revision. Instructional Courses. Solzalpe, Austria
2015 y. Department of Orthopedics and Tumor Orthopedics, Münster University Hospital, Germany
2015 y. Vitos Orthopedic Clinic, Kassel, Germany
2015 y. Lector in Primary & Revision Knee Courses, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 y. Primary & Revision Hip Courses, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 y. NexGen Revision Knee Arthroplasty, Paris, France
2016 y. Interactions Meeting "The Challenge of Revision Hip Arthroplasty”, Hamburg, Germany

Publications

An author and coauthor of numerous published scientific articles and presentations

Specialist of plastic and reconstructive surgery, orthopedic traumatologist