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Professor, paediatric gastroenterologist
Vaidotas Urbonas
About the doctor
Licence no. MPL-02133
A doctor with extensive experience, he was the first in Lithuania to introduce new diagnostic and treatment methods: coeliac disease diagnosis, a children's liver transplantation programme, home parenteral nutrition and faecal transplantation in children. Actively involved in the work of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN), he participates in working groups that prepare multicentre studies and disease diagnosis and treatment recommendations for European and global physicians.
Awards
Knight's Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.
Medal of Commemoration of 13 January.
First prize of the Vilnius Medical Society (1995).
Award for the best poster presentations at the 1st World Congress of Paediatricians (USA) and at European Gastroenterology Week (Switzerland).
As a co-author, awarded the Ministry of Education and Science prize for Volume II of the textbook "Children's Diseases" (2004).
The doctor is a laureate of the first and third Vilnius Medical prizes. His presentations have also been awarded at international conferences: the 1st World Congress of Paediatricians in 2000 in Boston (USA) and European Gastroenterology Week (UEGW) in 2002 in Geneva (Switzerland).
Professional development
2005, 2 weeks. Institute of Mother and Child, Warsaw.
2005, 2 days. Professional development courses of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.
2001, 1 week. Professional development courses of the European Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.
2000, 2 days. Professional development courses of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.
2000, 1 week. Salzburg medical seminars.
1999, 1 month. Umeå University Hospital (Sweden).
1998, 1 month. Tampere University Hospital (Finland).
1998, 1 week. Loyola University Hospital, Chicago (USA).
1997, 1 week. Salzburg medical seminars.
Studies
1998 graduated from Vilnius University and obtained a doctorate in biomedical sciences.
1982 obtained the specialty of paediatrician at the Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University.
Languages
- Lithuanian., - English., - Russian.
Internships
2013, 2 weeks, Institute of Mother and Child, Warsaw (Poland).
2005, 1 month, Institute of Mother and Child, Warsaw (Poland).
2005 Professional development courses of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (Riga).
2001, 1.5 months, Odense University Hospital (Denmark).
2000, 1 month, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford (England).
2000, 1 month, University Hospital of Graz (Austria).
2000 Professional development courses of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (Vilnius).
1999, 1 month, Umeå University Hospital (Sweden).
Associations
Member of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.
Member of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism.
Chairman of the Lithuanian Paediatric Society and the Lithuanian Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology.
Member of the Lithuanian Society of Gastroenterology.
Member of the Lithuanian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.
Member of the Lithuanian Transplantologists' Association.
Member of the Baltic Immunoprophylaxis Association.
Member of the Mother and Child Commission of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.