Alma Čypienė

Cardiologist

About the doctor

Cardiologist, doctor of sciences. The doctor advises patients experiencing shortness of breath, pain in the heart area, arterial hypertension (elevated blood pressure), dyslipidaemia (elevated cholesterol), heart rhythm disorders (irregular heartbeat), and episodes of dimming or loss of consciousness. She treats and monitors patients who have had a myocardial infarction. Also patients with heart problems and rheumatic diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, systemic vasculitis, systemic sclerosis, etc.).

Member of the European and Lithuanian societies of cardiology

Member of the Lithuanian Heart Association

Member of the Lithuanian Hypertension Society

Member of the Lithuanian Association of Rheumatologists

 

Education

VU EKMI doctoral student 06.12.2004 - 25.04.2008

Cardiologist since 1991

1986 graduated from the Faculty of General Medicine of KMI

 

Professional development

November 2015 internship in Italy, at the Careggi Hospital in Florence, cardiomyopathy centre, and in Padua (Italy) at the cardiomyopathy centre.

2010 Pathology and therapy of intensive cardiology, VU

2009 01 29-30 Laser dopplerography training courses, Stockholm, Sweden

2007 10 12-13 Applanation tonometry training courses, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

2005 Clinical pharmacology of cardiovascular diseases. VU

Presentations at international conferences in the Czech Republic 2010, Croatia 2012, Lithuania 2013

Since 2008 Lecturing to doctors

Since 2010 VU Faculty of Medicine, cardiovascular disease clinic, senior researcher

Since May 2008 State Research Institute Centre for Innovative Medicine, researcher and lecturer

 

Languages

- Lithuanian,  - English,  - Russian