Date of birth

Place of birth

Education

1979–1984

1969–1975

1958–1969

9 August 1951

Kiusiur Village, Bulunsk Region, Yakut ASSR

Historian, teacher of history and political sciences, diploma cum laude, Faculty of History, Vilnius State University (currently Vilnius University)

Diploma of surgeon, Kaunas Medical Institute (currently Lithuanian University of Health Sciences)

Secondary School No 24 in Kaunas (currently Jonas and Petras Vileišiai Secondary School), graduation with honours

Work experience

2004–2008

1985–1993

1976–1985

Director, Public Institution Socialinių ir ekonominių tyrimų institutas (Eng. Institute of Social and Economic Research)

Cardiac Surgeon, Cardiac Surgery Centre, Vilnius Republican Clinical Hospital

Surgeon of category II, Ignalina Central Hospital, Kaunas District Hospital

Political career

Since 2012

2008–2012

Since 2008

2000–2004

1996–2000

1992–1996

1990–1992

1999–2001

1988–1989

Since 1969

Member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party

Minister of Health of the Republic of Lithuania

Member, Committee on European Affairs

Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs

Member, Constitutional Commission

Member, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party Political Group

Deputy Chair, Committee on European Affairs

Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs

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

Deputy Chair, Seimas Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly

Deputy Chairman of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party

Deputy Speaker, Leader of the Opposition, Member of the Board of the Seimas

Member, Committee of Foreign Affairs

Member, Committee on Legal Affairs

Chair, Committee on European Affairs

Member, Commission on NATO Affairs

Head, Lithuanian Delegation to the European Convention

Deputy Chair, Member, Seimas Delegation to the Baltic Assembly

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Assembly of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Sejm of the Republic of Poland

Member, Committee on State Administration and Local Authorities

Member, Seimas Delegation to the Baltic Assembly

Deputy Chair, Committee on Health and Social Affairs

Member, Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania

Member of the working group for drafting documents for March 11

Chairman, Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP)

Initiator of the re-establishment of the LSDP, Member of the initiative group for the restoration of the activities of the LSDP, Member of the Lithuanian Reform Movement Sąjūdis

Active involvement in the anti-Soviet underground movement