Fi Clinica

More than 500 surgeries per year.

Licence

2006 MPL-08423 (Medical Surgeon), Vilnius

2011 MPL-16907 (Abdominal Surgeon), Vilnius

Work experience

2001 – 2003 Medical Doctor, Emergency Medical Department of SE Kėdainiai Primary Health Care Center

2001 – 2003 Assistant Pediatric Surgeon, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics, Pediatric Surgery Clinic

2003 – 2006 On-call Doctor, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics, Kaunas Oncology Hospital

2006 – 2018 Abdominal Surgeon, Department of Abdominal and Endocrine Surgery, Klaipėda University Hospital

2018 – 2020 Head of the Operating Room Department, Klaipėda University Hospital

2020 Head of Abdominal and Robotic Surgery Department, Klaipėda University Hospital

Seminars

2011 Good Clinical Practice Training (ICH / GCP) (duration 8 hours), Marupe, AMBER CRO, Latvia

2015 Betis no. 2015-47 Good Clinical practice improvement training (duration 4 hours), Vilnius, Lithuania

Internships

2006 Interventional Ultrasound, Vilnius University of Medicine

2007 Modern standards of treatment of benign and malignant tumors, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics, Oncology Hospital

2007 Radiofrequency Thermodestruction in Surgery, Innsbruck, Austria

2007 Echoscope Navigation System in Surgery, Milan, Turin, Genoa, Italy

2008 Diagnosis and complex treatment of pancreatic tumors, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics

2008 Liver resection operations, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2009 Obesity Surgery, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics 2019 Training in Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery, Brussels, Belgium

2009 Laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics

2011 Cytoreductive Surgery and HIPEC, Bergamo, Italy

2012 Liver Diseases, Vilnius University

2012 8th World Congress on Peritoneal Malignancies, Berlin, Germany

2012 Endoscopic TEPP hernia surgery, Wipperfurth, Germany 

2013 Laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

2013 Surgical treatment of gastrointestinal tumors, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

2017 Laparoscopic Stomach Surgery, Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University, Korea

2018 Training in Laparoscopic Liver Surgery, Cordoba, Spain 

2019 TransEnterix Senhance Robotic Surgery Training, Milan, Italy

2019 EMEA Symposium on Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Hamburg, Germany

Presentations

2001 Influence of muscle electrostimulation on long-lying children patient orthostatic reactions

2004 Abdominal injuries in patients with open anterior abdominal wall trauma

2009 Laparoscopic ultrasound in abdominal surgery, Klaipėda

2010 Radiothermal destruction in the treatment of liver tumors, Klaipėda

2013 Radiofrequency Destruction in Klaipeda University Hospital, Klaipėda

2013 Experience of Hipec and Cytoreductive Surgery at Klaipeda University Hospital, Congress of the Lithuanian Association of Surgeons, Druskininkai

2018 Hypocalcemia 6–12 months following total thyroidectomy: Results of a prospective multicenter study, Lithuanian Surgeons Association Congress

2018 Predictors of postoperative hypocalcemia occurring after total thyroidectomy: results of a prospective multicenter study, Congress of the Lithuanian Association of Surgeons

Areas of interest

Pancreas and liver surgery (open and laparoscopic surgeries for benign and malignant tumors), obesity surgery, minimally invasive surgery.

More than 250 surgeries per year.

Licence

2007 MPL-09624 (Abdominal Surgeon), Kaunas, Lithuania

Work experience

From 2017 until now, Professor of the LSMU MA Surgery Clinic.

From 2007 until now, Abdominal Surgeon at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Surgery Clinic.

2009 – 2017 Associate Professor of Surgery Clinic, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.From 2015 – until now, Senior Researcher at the Surgical Gastroenterology Laboratory of the Digestive System Research Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.

2016 – now, Independent Expert on the COST Program.2012 – now, European Commission International Expert for Quality Assurance of University Medical Studies.

2009 – 2011 Expert in the National Project for Medical Studies “Preparation of the national concept of the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS): harmonization of credits and development and implementation of the methodology of study programs based on learning achievements.”

2003 – 2004 Research Associate in European Research Laboratory for Pancreatic Surgery and Molecular Biology, led by prof. H. Friess and prof. M. W. Buechler, Heidelberg University Hospital, Department of Surgery, Heidelberg, Germany.

2002 – 2007 Abdominal Surgery Residency at the Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Surgery Clinic (headed by Prof. J. Pundzius).

2000 – 2003 International Relations Coordinator, Kaunas Medical University, Faculty of Nursing.

Seminars and Internships

From 2007 Member of the Lithuanian Bariatric Surgery and International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders.

From 2015 Board Member at the European Digestive Surgery Organization.

From 2017 Education Committee Member at United European Gastroenterology Community.

Internship at Karolinska Hospital (Stockholm, Sweden).

Internship at Ghent University Hospital (Ghent, Belgium).

Internship at Heidelberg University Hospital (Heidelberg, Germany).

Internship at Sahlgrenska Hospital (Gothenburg, Sweden).

Internship at the Hospital of the Technical University of Munich (Munich, Germany).

Internship at Stanford University Hospital (Stanford, USA).

Scientific papers

1. Cesna V et al. Stimulated upregulation of HO-1 is associated with inadequate response of gastric and ovarian cancer cell lines to hyperthermia and cisplatin treatment. Oncol Lett. 2019 Aug;18(2):1961-1968. 
2. Gulla A et al. Heme Oxygenase-1 Polymorphism Is Associated With the Development of Necrotic Acute Pancreatitis Via Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 and the E-Selectin Expression Regulation Pathway Pancreas. 2019 Jul;48(6):787-791.
3. Lukosiute-Urboniene A et al. Human antigen R mediated post-transcriptional regulation of inhibitors of apoptosis proteins in pancreatic cancer. World J Gastroenterol. 2019 Jan 14;25(2):205-219. 
4. Bieliuniene E et al. Magnetic Resonance Imaging as a Valid Noninvasive Tool for the Assessment of Pancreatic Fibrosis. Pancreas. 2019 Jan;48(1):85-93. 
5. Cesna V et al. Narrow line between benefit and harm: Additivity of hyperthermia to cisplatin cytotoxicity in different gastrointestinal cancer cells. World J Gastroenterol. 2018 Mar 14;24(10):1072-1083. 
6. Jakstaite A et al. Upregulation of cugbp2 increases response of pancreatic cancer cells to chemotherapy. Langenbecks Arch Surg. 2016 Feb;401(1):99-111. 
7. Asting AG et al. Alterations in Tumor DNA Are Related to Short Postoperative Survival in Patients Resected for Pancreatic Carcinoma Aimed at Cure. Pancreas. 2016 Jul;45(6):900-7. 
8. Jakstaite A et al. HuR mediated post-transcriptional regulation as a new potential adjuvant therapeutic target in chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer. World J Gastroenterol. 2015 Dec 14;21(46):13004-19. 
9. Gulla A et al. Heme oxygenase-1 gene promoter polymorphism is associated with the development of necrotizing acute pancreatitis. Pancreas. 2014 Nov;43(8):1271-6. 
10. Dambrauskas Z et al. Inhibition of heme oxygenase-1 increases responsiveness of pancreatic cancer cells to anticancer treatment. Clin Cancer Res. 2005 May 15;11(10):3790-8.