Scheduled broadcasts
till 11/14/2016
Committees of the Seimas
| 01/01/2014 - 11/14/2016 | Committee on Education and Science, Member |
| 11/20/2012 - 12/31/2013 | Committee on Education and Science, Member |
Commissions of the Seimas
| 01/01/2014 - 11/14/2016 | Commission for the Cause of Freedom, Deputy Chair |
| 12/06/2012 - 12/31/2013 | Commission for the Cause of Freedom, Deputy Chair |
| 12/04/2012 - 12/05/2012 | Commission for the Cause of Freedom, Member |
Political groups of the Seimas
| 06/07/2016 - 11/14/2016 | Non-attached Members, Member |
| 11/16/2012 - 06/06/2016 | Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat Political Group, Member |
Drafts tabled
Duomenų apie registruotus teisės aktų projektus ir pasiūlymus nėra.
|
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 |
Miscellaneous
Other activities: former Member of the Kaunas Council of the Lithuanian Reform Movement Sąjūdis, Member of the 2nd Sąjūdis Seimas; Chairman of the Lithuanian Association for the Protection of Human Rights (1991–2004); Honorary Chairman of the Association (since 2005); Signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Lithuania (1989)
Awards: Honorary Badge of Doctor of Merit of Lithuania; Medal of the Lithuanian Union of Retired Servicemen; Distinction Badge for Merits to the Safety of Citizens; Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the Lithuanian Reform Movement Sąjūdis; Distinction Badge by the 1st Regiment of the Public Security Service; Third Degree Insignia by the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union “Order for Merits to the Lithuanian Riflemen‘s Union”; prize for achievements in the field of medicine by the USA Lithuanian Foundation of Dr Antanas Razma (2003); the Republic of Lithuania Prize for the introduction of cardiac stimulation in Lithuanian medicine (1980); silver and bronze medals for promotion of medicine
Areas of research: surgical treatment of coronary disease, electric heart stimulation, experimental development of auxiliary heart
Publications: author and co-author of 329 scientific publications on medicine, 18 inventions, three books; author of over 200 articles and addresses; editor and compiler of the periodical Lietuvių tauta ir pasaulis (Lithuanian Nation and the World) (10 books); compiler of the publication Lietuva ir žmogaus teisės (Lithuania and Human Rights)
Foreign languages: French, Russian, English
Interests: health protection, bioethics, policy, gardening, bibliophily
Family
Married with two children: a son and a daughter
