CURRICULUM VITAE
IRENANARKEVICIUTE, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof.
Address
Santariskiu 4
LT-08406 Vilnius, Lithuania
Phone: +370 5 2720270
e-mail:
Current Position
- Associate professor of the Vilnius University Clinic of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine,
VilniusUniversity
- Chiefordinator of Dept. of Paediatric Pulmonology and Immunology of the Vilnius
University Children‘s Hospital
Education, postgraduate training and qualifications
1970 Graduated from Vilnius University (VU) Faculty of Medicine (physician-pediatrician)
1972 Internationalimmunologyschool (Sochi, Russia)
1974 Postgraduate training course on infectious diseases(VU)
1975 PhD thesis defended at the KaunasAcademia of Medicine
1976 Postgraduate training course on gastroenterology(VU)
1979 Postgraduate training course on pediatric intensive care(VU)
1981 Postgraduate training course on infectious diseases (2nd Moscow Institute of Medicine)
1982 Internship on children‘s diseases (Medical AcademyErfurt;University Medicine Berlin,
Charite, Germany)
1983 Postgraduate training course on pediatric pulmonology(VU)
1983 Associate professor, Dept.of Infectious diseases, VilniusUniversity
1985 Postgraduate training course on sepsis (TbilisiMedical University,Georgia)
1988 Postgraduate training course on infectious diseases (Central postgraduate medical institute,
Moscow)
1991 Postgraduate training course on infectious diseases (Central postgraduate medical institute,
Moscow)
1993 Postgraduate training course on children‘selectrocardiology(VU)
1993 International immunology school (Palanga, Lithuania)
1994 Nordic Paediatric Association (NPA) postgraduate training course on children‘s diseases
(Uppsala University, Sweden)
1994 Licence of Medical Doctor-Pediatrician
1996 Internship on HIV infection and AIDS, infectious diseases(University of Padua, Italy)
1997 Postgraduate training course on children‘s allergic diseases(VU)
1999 Licence of Medical Doctor-Infectious diseasesphysician
1999 Postgraduate training course on immunoprophylaxis of infectious diseases(VU)
1999 ESCMID postgraduate training course on laboratory diagnostics of infectious diseases in
pregnancy (Berlin, Germany)
2000 NPA postgraduate training course on infectious diseases (Helsinki, Finland)
2000 NPA postgraduate training course on children’s diseases(Tampere, Finland)
2000 ESPGHAN postgraduate training course on pediatric gastroenterology (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2001 ESCMID postgraduate training course on management of nosocomial infections –
implications of antibiotic resistance(Antalya, Turkey)
2001 Licence of Medical Doctor-Pediatric pulmonologists
2002 Postgraduate training course on infectious diseases(Kaunas Academia of Medicine)
2002 Postgraduate training course on pediatricpulmonology(VU)
2004 ESCMID postgraduate training course on measuring, auditing and improving antimicrobial
prescribing(Prague, Czech Republic)
2005 Basics of pedagogy anddistance learning(Kaunas Academia of Medicine)
2006 Postgraduate training course on children'streatmentof somaticdiseases(VU)
2006 ESCMID postgraduate training course on Infectious Diseases and ClinicalMicrobiology
(Nice, France)
2006 ICID postgraduate training course on infectious diseases (Lisbon, Portugal)
2007 Postgraduate training course on children'sintestinalinfectionsandparasiticdiseasesof
contemporarydiagnosticandtreatment (VU)
2007 ESCMID postgraduate training course on clinicalmicrobiologyandinfectious diseases
(Munich, Germany)
2008 Postgraduate training course on topicalinfections inchildren (VU)
2008 Postgraduate training course on the most commonchildhood allergiesandrespiratory
infections,diagnosisandtreatment (VU)
2008 Investigator training program workshop (Vilnius)
2008 ESCMID postgraduate training course on infectious diseases (Barcelona, Spain)
2009 ESCMID postgraduate training course on clinicalmicrobiologyandinfectious diseases
(Helsinki, Finland)
2010 ESCMID postgraduate training course on infectious diseases (Vienna, Austria)
2011 Postgraduate training course onselectedacuteabdominaldiseasediagnosisand treatment
(VU)
Work experience
1970 – 1978 Physician,Epidemiology, Microbiology andHygieneScientificResearch
Institute, lateHead of the Laboratoryof Microbiology
1978 – 1991 Assistant lecture, late associate professor, Dept. of Infectious diseases, Faculty of
Medicine, VilniusUniversity
1992 – 1997 Pediatrician,LithuanianAIDSCentre
1991 – 1994 Associate professor, Vilnius University Clinic of Children‘s Infectious Diseases
1994 – 2009 Associate professor, Vilnius University Centre of Pediatrics
2009 – present Associate professor, Vilnius University Clinic of Children’s Diseases
Membership
- Lithuanian Society of Pediatrics
- Lithuanian Society of Infectious Diseases
- Lithuanian Society of Pediatric Pulmonology
- European Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID)
- European Society of ClinicalMicrobiologyandInfectious Diseases(ESCMID)
Scientific interests, teaching, reviewing
- Pediatric, infectious diseases, respiratorytract infections, clinical microbiology, nosocomial
infections,antimicrobialtherapy
- Course of Pediatric infectious diseases for medical students at the VilniusUniversity; course of Pediatric
infectious diseases and respiratorytract infections for postgraduate physicians at the VilniusUniversity.
- Reviewer on national and international journals of medicine
International scientific project
- 2003-2006 Respiratoryvirusresearchanddiagnostics.The EU6thprogram
Awards
- Vilnius Medical Society(1994, Vilnius)for the best implemented scientific work “Infectious
mononucleosis diagnosis identifying EBV DNA” intopractice
- 6th International Congress for Infectious Diseases (1994, Prague) for the best epidemiological
study
Publications
More than200 scientificpublications on pediatric and adults infectious diseases, respiratory tract infectious inLithuanian andforeign medical journals. Chapters on pediatrics infectious diseases in textbooks and familydoctorguide
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