Date of birth

4 January 1940

Place of birth

Kaunas, Lithuania

Education

1986

Professor

1977

Associate Professor

1958–1965

Kaunas Medical Institute (currently Lithuanian University of Health Sciences), Faculty of Therapeutic Medicine, Diploma of Physician

1955–1958

Kupiškis Secondary School

Work experience

1996–2004

Member, Senate of Kaunas University of Medicine

1994–2004

Professor, Clinic of Cardiac Surgery

1993–1994

Head, Kaunas University of Medicine, Clinic of Cardiac Surgery

1979–2004

Head, Kaunas University of Medicine, Biomedical Research Institute, Cardiovascular Surgery Laboratory

1966–2004

Surgery Assistant, Kaunas Medical Institute

1965–2004

Surgeon, Kaunas Clinical Hospital

Political career

Member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats

Since 2012

Member, Committee on Education, Science and Culture

Deputy Chair, Commission for the Rights and Affairs of Participants of Resistance to Occupation Regimes and Victims of Occupation

Member, Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat Political Group

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly

2008–2012

Member, Committee on Health Affairs

Chair, Commission for the Rights and Affairs of Participants of Resistance to Occupation Regimes and Victims of Occupation

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly

2004–2008

Deputy Chair, Committee on Human Rights

Member, Commission for Family and Child Affairs

Deputy Chair, Seimas Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie

Since 2004

Member of the Homeland Union (Lithuanian Conservatives); Member of the Council and Policy Committee

2002–2004

Member, Kaunas City Municipal Council

Chairman, Committee on Health

1995–2004

Member, Union of Lithuanian Political Prisoners and Deportees

Member, Society of Lithuanian Political Prisoners and Deportees